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 LIFE force; 
 
 An Original Work of Advanced Scientific 
 on World-Bui Idimj and Life-ProduGifli: 
 
 The Origin ; >f Man by Spontaneous Generation- 
 Explained Away— The Cause of Growth 
 and Decay — Zodiacal Construction of ' 
 Brain ; According to 
 
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 FKOF. P. A. GRAVES. ASTROLOGER 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO: 
 
 1899. 
 
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 Copyright secured by P. A Graves. 1896. All right- reserved 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
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 ''Man, that is born of woman, is of few daj-s and full of trouble; 
 he cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; he Heeth like 
 a shadow, and continueth not." 
 
 This volume is the product of many years of 
 careful study and intense mental labor, under the 
 most trying circumstances possible for an author to 
 be placed, being without home, money, sympathy or 
 assistance in the self-imposed task; besides a strong 
 opposition to encounter at almost every step has had 
 the effect to delay its publication. 
 
 But financial embarrassment has been the im- 
 peeding force and the delaying power, since having 
 been compelled to go forth each clay to work for bread, 
 and writing only when not driven to earn food, and 
 that too in the most depressed financial condition 
 ever known to the people of the far west. 
 
 These, together with a helpless family of mother- 
 less children offered no assistance to the circumstances 
 above mentioned. 
 
 In the face of these facts it would be a surprise 
 to the author if the book was more commendable 
 than otherwise, and though it is far inferior to what 
 the author intended it should be, it is nevertheless all 
 the circumstances would permit. It ought to have 
 been through the press three years earlier, but owing 
 to the above named circumstances it has been delayed. 
 
8 PREFACE. 
 
 I have tried to enlist the attention of all classes, from 
 the millionaire down to the servant girl of ebon hue ? 
 but failed in each and every attempt. 
 
 I tried nearly, if not quite all of the printers 
 south of Sacramento to San Diego, California, but 
 always met with the same kind of encouragement , 
 which was: to try some one else, which I did. I even 
 wrote East with no better success; but I made up my 
 mind in the beginning that it took all these mild 
 ingredients to make up the awful dose of disappoint- 
 ments, which has in the past, and still must be taken 
 by all those, who are foolish enough to try to 
 introduce a new idea to the world. I think it is 
 pretty nearly true what a gentleman in San Francisco 
 once remarked concerning new ideas; that is, that 
 it cost 40,000 dollars and required two generations 
 to get a new idea before the American people. In 
 view of this fact I concluded to write for future 
 generations, and let the book bide its time, for money 
 I have none, and $40,000 friends are not hovering 
 conveniently near with stringless sacks and bursting 
 with fullness? The foregoing are all of the apologies I 
 have to offer to the considerate reader. 
 
 But some of my sj^mpathizing friends have 
 hinted that they would like to add a word of apology 
 to my own, for no other reason than to explain that 
 I do not rush to the popular trough, drink with the 
 herd and bellow for coin. 
 
 But as that would be a very unnatural pleasure 
 for me to enjoy, I must deem all such apologies out 
 
PREFACE. 9 
 
 of place. Had I consulted public opinion this book 
 would never have been written. And now it is too 
 late to join the popular procession, however pleasant 
 and profitable it might be to myself and others. 
 
 I respect public as well as private opinions when 
 they are right, but I entertain no respect for volun- 
 tary slavery in religion, henchmen in politics, nor 
 sycophants in science. I have a profound regard for 
 truth, but no respect for falsehood nor deception. 
 I reverence no doctrine, dogma, subject nor science, 
 because some one else did or does. I only admire 
 them for the truth they embrace. I object to wrong 
 whereever I find it, and accept nothing on authority. 
 No man is so good or great, that I fear to criticise 
 his errors, nor so bad that I cannot accept the good 
 he offers. We are only mortals at best, ruled by the 
 same natural laws, differing only in intensity. 
 
 There is no royal name nor blood, 
 That men should love or fear, 
 But royal deeds above the clouds 
 Should make their memory dear. 
 
 A physician once remarked that it was a daring 
 tiling to do, to question the authority of the old 
 teachers on physiological questions. I replied, that 
 it required no special degree of courage to oppose an 
 error after it has been proven one, that only cowards 
 feared to speak in behalf of truth. 
 
 Books are too often written, not to defend truth 
 nor to advance the cause of humanity, but to catch 
 dollars. I test all metals in my crucible and try them 
 as silver is tried. If I am in error on any point in 
 
10 PREFACE. 
 
 this profound philosophy, the reader may be doubly 
 assured that it was not maliciously nor superstitiously 
 obtained, for I never possessed a pet idea that I 
 could not release from the cage of my fancy in a 
 moments warning, if necessary. 
 
 I sometimes advance ideas w T hich I cannot sup- 
 port excetp in a logical way, but I make no asser- 
 tions to-day, that I fear may be overthrown to- 
 morrow, but in case I should, I will thank the one 
 who does the kindly act. 
 
 I am awake to the fact, that world-building 
 and life-creating is not a safe nor sure business to 
 engage in during this age. It would do for Moses and 
 other speculative minds to attempt such hazardous 
 things in other days when people were imbued with 
 faith and strangers to the facts of nature. 
 
 But in a scientific age like this, when the mental 
 status is reversed and facts come first, the prospect 
 for success in gaining public recognition is not so 
 flattering as formerly. Nevertheless I am going to 
 launch a theory on the turbid waters of chance, and 
 try its powers of endurance in weathering the storms 
 of criticisms from scientific elements. 
 
 I beg no points, nor ask for charity; my work is 
 open to criticism. 
 
 If it is too weak to withstand the buffets of the 
 breakers, it must succumb to their fury, and be dashed 
 to pieces on the rock bound shore of the sea of science. 
 The reader will learn, before advancing very far in 
 the perusal of this work, that the author is not a 
 
PREFACE. 11 
 
 Darwinian evolutionist, but a spontaneous produe- 
 tionist, and bases his philosophy on the proposition 
 that man originally was and now is a product of 
 nature's laws, which are executed by the heavenly 
 bodies, and that they created him in his present form, 
 and not through the unknown laws of evolution, nor 
 in the image of his ''maker". Moreover, the great 
 laws which created him must necessarily rule, and 
 sustain him from his coming on till his going off of 
 the stage of action. 
 
 The author also claims for the same laws the 
 power to create species. 
 
 If they can create a single form of life, they can 
 create many forms, since it is only necessary for 
 them to create a nucleus in order to create any 
 form of life. If they could create a single nucleus 
 they could create many more. If more, their power 
 is scarcely limited. 
 
 The creation of a nucleus is all the difficulty 
 there is attending the creation of any and all forms 
 of life; and since they can be created with ease and 
 accuracy evolution is unnecessary. 
 
 Dissecting the human body, and separating it 
 into its primary parts, as they were put together by 
 the zoadical forces, may be regarded by some as 
 hazardous and uncertain work. But the reader can 
 better judge the merits of the point in question after 
 he has finished the book. 
 
 The attempt to disprove the immortality of 
 man will doubtless meet with more opposition than 
 
12 PREFACE. 
 
 all other questions involved in the text; for few, if 
 any, wish to believe that they will not be permitted to 
 hear the glad notes of Gabriel's sounding horn when 
 the day arrives for the grave to give up its dead, and 
 the angry sea to disgorge its many victims, that all 
 shall " come forth to be judged of the deeds done in 
 the body ", and each assigned to his place on the right 
 or left as the case may be, there to remain forever. 
 
 Of my own choice I would deprive no one of the 
 innocent pleasure of witnessing his neighbor's sentence 
 to everlasting punishment by the stern command of 
 the tenderhearted dispenser of justice. 
 
 " Depart ye accursed into the everlasting fire, pre- 
 pared for the devil and his angels ". Nor would I 
 deprive him of receiving his own reward of everlasting 
 life for his own good works: "Well done, good and 
 faithful servant; enter into the joys of thy lord. " 
 
 But from necessity I must judge the result of the 
 created from the character of the creator, and not from 
 a personal opinion as to what should be the result 
 according to my own yiews of justice. It matters not 
 to her what man believes or hopes for; whether creat- 
 ing or destroying, nature executes her laws to the 
 letter on all occasions. We only deceive ourselves by 
 building contrary to her mandates. 
 
 It has been said that because man is a worshipping 
 animal he has a creator to worship and a soul to save. 
 But, dear reader, when you reflect that his desire to 
 lie to his friends, slander his neighbor, steal from the 
 unsuspecting, starve and torture his fellows, and 
 
PREFACE. 13 
 
 murder the innocent, is greater than his desire to 
 worship his supposed creator, the former argument 
 fades away into insignificance. 
 
 If one passion is divine then all must be. If one 
 talent is Godgiven then all of them are. But as a 
 matter of fact man has but a meager desire to worship 
 anything but gold. Modern worship is mostly formal — 
 little faith and less sincerity, and executed by a force 
 of practice, usually for a purpose; therefore, there is 
 no weight to the argument. 
 
 I will doubtless find myself homeless among the 
 medical fraternity, because no one likes to have his 
 business assailed; but falsehood must be sifted out 
 of science regardless of individual desires or personal 
 interests. 
 
 If I were writing in my own financial interest 
 this would be a very different book. I would write 
 lies to please, romance to flatter, and falsehoods for 
 effect; for that would catch the masses ; for rugged 
 scientific truth, stern and piercing, can be rel- 
 ished only by the wise. Facts are alone for the 
 freighted brain, and these are vastly in the minority; 
 in these I trust for the success of this book. 
 
 I will now introduce the reader to " Stellar Dust," 
 with the modest request that he, or she, read under- 
 standing^, without prejudice: weigh the arguments 
 with care and judge according to the evidence adduced; 
 then he or she will have done all an honest author 
 could ask of an intelligent reader. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In a former volume, entitled "Evolution and 
 Reproduction", which I published in 1889. was 
 explained many points of interest in connection with 
 this new philosophy, but after seven years of careful 
 study I found it very imperfect. I therefore concluded 
 to give to the public a more complete rendering of the 
 subject, and to it add some of the most important 
 points laid down in the former volume, since I cannot 
 now tell when I shall have another edition published. 
 And though I have been an enthusiastic student of 
 Astrology for nearly a quarter of a century, yet I 
 find no limit to the field of investigation, open to the 
 untrammeled mind that can unfettered roam through 
 nature's fields, blossoming with everlasting truths. 
 I have an abiding confidence in the intuition of the 
 human mind, notwithstanding its finite powers to 
 unfold many of nature's most subtle secrets, which 
 have hitherto been unrevealed to man, not only in 
 connection with this world, but with the universe of 
 systems. When philosophers, scientists and learned 
 men extend their researches out into nature's open, 
 broad and free fields, which is becoming a scientific 
 mind, instead of ignoring the great universal natural 
 laws, because they are called astrology and because a 
 certain class of people have arrayed their forces against 
 it to frown it down, then they may expect to 
 
INTRODUCTION. 15 
 
 accomplish results in proportion to the efforts put 
 forth. But so long as they study effects beneath their 
 feet in searching for the laws which produce them, 
 just so long will they be wandering in the unproduc- 
 tive dessert of thought, all barren of results and 
 finally fall by the wayside, unrewarded for their toil. 
 In this, however, they only share the fate of many of 
 their predecessors, who surrender the scepter of life at 
 the very throne of success, had they only looked in 
 the right direction to behold the gems of truth ready 
 to flash out before their wandering eyes. What a 
 surprise would have been theirs, had they only turned 
 their eyes toward heaven, as they had so often been 
 commanded to do, and studied nature as a whole; 
 they would have learned much pertaining to her 
 subtle forces and become familiar with the secrets of 
 her mighty works, then how much they would have 
 learned to their own interest and to the advantage 
 of the human family, and how many facts in nature 
 they might have discovered long ago, and what 
 beautiful truths they might have scattered broadcast 
 to an anxious waiting world, and how much false- 
 hood and superstition they might have throttled in 
 their embryonic form and thus made their lives both 
 profitable and glorious. But instead, they have 
 bolstered up stale dogmas, divine falsehoods, old saws 
 and ancient superstitions, which came to, and have 
 continued to curse the human family since they first 
 entered the mind of vicious man. It is painful to 
 contemplate the social and political conditions of the 
 
16 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 world when compared w T ith what it would have been 
 had truth prevailed and falsehood been dethroned. 
 Had the laws of nature been properly understood, 
 generally taught and zealously observed at the proper 
 time to quicken the human germ, that it might 
 receive the full benefits of the benific, heavenly forces, 
 which would have finally developed it into the full 
 frutitions of manhood and womanhood. How different 
 would be the condition of society today. Instead of 
 vast sums of money being expended for the care of 
 viciously insane, the hungry and the destitute, it 
 might be spent to educate thousands of neglected 
 youths and train their minds for lives of usefulness 
 and personal satisfaction. But with all the power of 
 human intelligence man has arrogated to himself. 
 He is a frail, incapable creature, subjecting himself 
 too much to the whims of the less capable, who have 
 no aspirations above a petty personal motive. It is 
 not the laws of nature that concerns their microcosm, 
 nor the force of heaven that reaches their under- 
 standing. What do they care whence comes the 
 gases which produce the wheat, sheep and cattle, so 
 long as their tables receive their tri-daily supply of 
 bread, mutton chop and roast ribs of beef, to sustain 
 their wearing muscular tissues, to invigorate their 
 mental organs and to refill their rapidly exhausting 
 brain cells that they may have health and strength 
 to jostle each other in the wild race for lucre. 
 
 What matters it to them whether God made the 
 world in six davs or that it was thrown from the sun 
 
INTRODUCTION. 17 
 
 and found its orbit in six years, or by a slower process 
 it was formed by the accumalation of gases in six 
 millions of years, so long as her ample products are 
 forth coming at their command. 
 
 What does it matter to them whether our boys 
 are to be confined in asylums, locked behind bars, 
 or hold honorable positions in business, science, 
 literature, art, or profession, so long as their appetites 
 and passions are appealed, they love God and pay 
 the preacher. 
 
 Forethought is not a marked characteristic in the 
 human family, as proven by the lack of interest taken 
 in the subject of reproduction. 
 
 This is not a question of information, only 
 simply to gratify a longing for unknown facts of 
 nature, as the discovery of a comet, a distant star, or 
 the satellite of another planet, but it is one of 
 importance to all mankind. It is for the social good 
 of every nation and essential to the mental progress 
 of the whole world, individually and collectively; for 
 this reason it should enlist the attention and gain the 
 support of all, and especially those who are able to 
 think for themselves, but does it. 
 
 However, there has been a passing interest taken 
 in the origin of man since evolution has been placed 
 upon the spit. It has been roasted, cooled and 
 toasted again, assailed by its enemies and defended by 
 its friends, until its strong points will scarcely hold 
 its weak ones together, even in the hands of its most 
 powerful supporters, while its theological enemies who 
 
18 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 have long and faithfully been drilled in the drama 
 of creation as found in the first book of Genesis and 
 purported to have been a divine revelation to man 
 of the origin of life, condemn the Darwinian theory 
 of evolution with all the vehemence at their command, 
 while a very large percentage of the human family 
 do not accept either as a correct solution, and are 
 patiently waiting the promulgation of a more logical 
 rendering of the problem, and one which is more in 
 keeping with the present order of things than are 
 either of the former doctrins. 
 
 And since there is a marked divergence of opinions 
 among the honored, learned and great in regard to 
 the beginning of life, the author feels justified in 
 formulating a new theory which is supported by 
 more facts than either, if not all of the known 
 theories combined. 
 
 But doubtless many will deem it a presumption 
 on his part to oppose the life efforts of the great 
 Darwin, while others will declare it sacrilegious to 
 doubt the statements of Moses, and perhaps sigh for 
 the return of the Holy Inquisition to check the flood 
 of free thought and thus preserve the institutions of 
 fables, falsehoods and superstitions. But the dykes 
 are down and the wild waves are upon them, washing 
 the sands from beneath their uncertain foundations. 
 It is only a matter of time when the great wrongs of 
 the pa=t and those practiced in the present will be 
 righted, and might will not always be right, neither 
 will superstition reign. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 19 
 
 For years the author has been pleased to know 
 that the inquisition of the "Holy of Holies ? ' has 
 been abolished, even in wicked Spain, and has had 
 cause to rejoice that it is not now the rule of law on 
 the free soil of America, where free speech is not 
 altogether suppressed and where thoughts can freely 
 flow without fear of priestly frown or the rack, 
 dungeon or ax. 
 
 Though the vicious blade has ceased to vibrate in 
 the jaws of the murderous gulletine to silence the 
 voice of the thinker and reformer, yet tongues still 
 continue to wag in defense of classified superstition. 
 But their echoes are growing fainter and farther, 
 and will finally be drowned in rejoicings of the people 
 made happy that truth has come to stay. 
 
 BARBARIC LEGISLATION. 
 
 It can scarcely be credited that a man could have 
 been iound in the great state of California capable 
 of framing a bill to suppress the freedom of speech, 
 and especially the practice of a science in the free and 
 easy going west. Yet there was just such a man, and 
 furthermore there was elected a Senate of chosen men 
 to represent and defend the liberties of the people of 
 the great commonwealth of California, that voted 
 upon that bill, passed it, and had it not been for the 
 superior intelligence of the lower house, it would have 
 become a law and thus put a check to free thought, 
 scientific growth and disgraced the sun, set shore of 
 freedom's sacred land. 
 
20 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 For what? That superstition and falsehood might 
 live and flourish off the credulity of an injured people. 
 
 HERE IS THE BILL. 
 
 "Any person who for valuable consideration or 
 promise of reward undertakes to predict to another 
 the future or reveal the past by means of cards, 
 communications from the dead, the examination of 
 any part of a person, of the dead or living, looking at 
 the stars or heavens or representations thereof, planets 
 or other bodies, heavenly or otherwise, or by any 
 means not natural, or who prints or causes to be 
 printed, or exhibits any sign or symbols intended to 
 induce others to have their fortunes told, the past 
 revealed, or the future predicted is guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor." 
 
 Now the important question arises: Who was it 
 that introduced the bill? Was it an infidel, a 
 spiritualist, a clergyman, phrenologist or a crank? 
 Surely it was not an astrologer, but whoever it was, 
 tried to disgrace the name of freedom and received 
 more assistance in his heinous effort to suppress 
 freedom of action than the wildest fanatic would 
 have dared to guess. , But the march of science 
 cannot be stayed by law, superstition, or neglect. It- 
 may encamp for the night to recuperate its ever increas- 
 ing forces, but with the morning sun its unbroken lines 
 will resume their impatient march. 
 
 But the foregoing is proof that the cloven foot 
 still exists to protude from beneath the sacerdotal 
 
INTRODUCTION 21 
 
 robes of inspired divines, to crush human hope and 
 destroy the happiness of all mankind. But when the 
 struggling masses once learned that the heavens rule 
 the development of the human brain they will then 
 have their visions clear to the fact that the black 
 robes of sacerdotal forms only cover the common 
 anatomy ruled by ordinary human brain, and the 
 majority of them doubtless are developed by the most 
 ordinary combination of planitary gases From their 
 acts one would be compelled to think that they were 
 begotten in iniquity, reared in selfishness and 
 superstition, educated to deceive, mislead the young, 
 frighten the timid, plunder the poor and rob the 
 widow of her mite. 
 
ZODIACAL SIGNS— HOW DISCOVERED. 
 
 The division of the heavens, as they were sur- 
 veyed and laid out by the ancient astrologers and 
 astronomers, for they are both one in practice in the 
 early history of the science. They were called signs 
 for the reason that they could not understand how r 
 the stars so far away could effect the people of the 
 earth. In fact they thought the divisions were only 
 signs of what the physical development would be from 
 hereditary causes. They did not then know how the 
 Zodiac executed the great fixed laws of nature w r hich 
 produced all things mundane, which they have since 
 been discovered to do. 
 
 In primitive days when there w r ere no mechanical 
 devices, by which to note the passing hours of fleeting 
 time, it became necessary to devise some means by 
 which the important events of life might be recorded. 
 
 The handy clock and the more convenient watch, 
 and even the hour-glass w r ere then unknown, and 
 though the semi-civilized people of those days were 
 very ignorant of all arts, science and mechanical 
 devices, nevertheless they discovered a method by 
 which to keep the records of the daily and nocturnal 
 events of human life. Their custom w r as to observe 
 the heavenly bodies and note their positions at the 
 time events occur. The position of the sun by day, 
 and the places of the moon and stars by night, and 
 
ZODIACAL SIGNS. 23 
 
 in some crude manner make a record of them. They 
 all knew when the sun rose, when it reached the mid- 
 heavens and when it set. Then by practice they 
 learned how to divide the quarters of the semi-circle 
 into equal parts, and then tell the exact time of day 
 by the position of the sun; then by selecting a bright 
 star they could tell the time of night by its position, 
 for the sun and stars ascended to the mid-heaven and 
 set at the same rate of speed; therefore the rule that 
 would apply to the sun would also apply to the 
 planets and stars. 
 
 The sun and the planets were doubtless first 
 employed for that purpose. Later on the fixed stars 
 were brought into use. Venus and Jupiter being very 
 bright and beautiful objects among the fixed stars to 
 the rude children of nature, early became familiar 
 to them: owing to their mutability they were curiously 
 watched by the simple minded people of those far- 
 remote unscientific days, before their influences were 
 discovered. They observed the moon as she moved 
 from star to star; they saw the planets change their 
 places; they admired their beauty and loved their 
 mystery, and what charmed them most they crown 
 with the highest title of admiration of goodness and 
 virtue. They felt the influence of the planets and 
 knew they brought them good. They saw them 
 sparkle and gleam in the depths of the blue firmament 
 and called them shining angels. Further than this 
 they knew nothing of those mysterious bodies, floating 
 far away in their trackless rounds of endless space. 
 
24 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 
 
 Those people are even now clubbed "star-gazers and 
 sun-worshipers,"and wise men sometimes laugh at the 
 title thus bestowed. 
 
 Yet is there anything higher in the form of 
 worship, holier in the desire, more beautiful in its 
 simplicity, or more practical in its results than ador- 
 ing a living truth? Let those who worship an ancient 
 myth, a flaky wafer, a glass of wine, the spirit form, 
 and laugh at astrology, reflect. 
 
 Astrology doubtless was the highest form of 
 worship ever known to man. From Jupiter came the 
 word Jove or Jehova; from Saturn was derived Satan. 
 The Lord of hosts (of stars), The Most High fixed stars^ 
 shining angels, ministering angels, angels of glory and 
 angels of light, angels of darkness, seven angels, and 
 swift winged angels, are all astrological terms as 
 applied to the fixed stars and planets; but they have 
 all been misinterpreted for a purpose, but eventually 
 their true meanings will be understood. 
 
 A writer commenting on the number seven found 
 go often in the Bible refers to it as a sacred number, 
 because, I presume, he did not understand why it was 
 so profusely employed in that connection; but had he 
 looked far enough to have discovered its origin he 
 would have learned that the number originated with 
 the seven planets : Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, 
 Mercury, Sun and Moon, all which were then known 
 to the ancient astrologer. 
 
 The following is a partial list of the things num- 
 bered by sevens: The days of creation were seven; the 
 
ZODIACAL SIGNS. 25 
 
 years of famine and plenty were numbered by seven; 
 there were seven days of the week, and every seventh 
 day was the sabbath of rest; after seven times seven 
 years came the jubilee; the feast of the unleavened 
 bread and the tabernacles was observed seven days; 
 the golden candlesticks had seven branches; seven 
 priests with seven trumpets surrounded Jericho seven 
 times, and seven times the seventh day; Jacob obtained 
 his wives by a servitude of seven years; Samson kept 
 his nuptials for seven days, and on the seventh day 
 he put a riddle to his wife. He was bound by seven 
 green withes, and seven locks of hair were shaven off; 
 Xebebuchadnazzer was seven years a beast; Shadrach. 
 and his two companions in misfortune were cast into a 
 furnace heated seven times more than it was wont. 
 
 In the new testament everything occurs by seven; 
 in the revelations we read of seven churches, seven 
 candlesticks, seven spirits, seven trumpets, seven 
 plagues, seven vials, seven seals, seven stars and seven 
 headed monsters, and is pretty good evidence that the 
 ancients, whom people now suspect were Christ wor- 
 shippers, were star worshippers instead, with the 
 Christian doctrine as a side issue. By the practice of 
 observing the heavens for the purpose of recording 
 events, they became familiar with the positions of the 
 fixed stars and the motions of the planets. 
 
 Occasionally all of the planets would be invisible 
 by being beneath the earth during the night time, 
 therefore could not be observed for the purpose above 
 mentioned. It then became necessary for them to 
 
26 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 
 
 single out some of the most prominent fixed stars to 
 be observed in the m absence of familiar planets, after 
 which it was discovered that a new influence existed; 
 then by careful observation it was noticed that the 
 general influences supposed to emanate from fixed 
 stars extended over 30 degrees of space, and that all 
 children born at the rising of any one of the twelve 
 divisions of the heavens partook of like developments 
 and general characteristics. Thus they discovered a 
 very convenient and reliable system for finding the 
 time all important events occured,and also the zodiacal 
 influences in the brain. This observation continued 
 till they had discovered twelve distinct forms and 
 characters produced by the twelve zodiacal division? 
 which they called houses, or mansions of the heavens. 
 Hence the quotation: "In my father's house are many 
 mansions." 
 
 As language was very imperfectly understood at 
 that time, and embraced only a simple dialect, then 
 the weak understanding of the ordinary people 
 made it necessary for the teachers of those days to 
 resort to illustrations, and draw comparisons from 
 what was known of their mundane surroundings. In 
 order to impart the heavenly knowledge the more 
 thoughtful ones had obtained by observation, the ani- 
 mals of the forest and the beasts of the fields were chosen 
 to symbolize the respective houses of the heavens. 
 
 Aries. — The ancients noticed that all persons 
 born at the rising of the first divisions of the heavens 
 were irritable, quick tempered, active and combative. 
 
 
ZODIACAL SIGNS. 27 
 
 To illustrate this character they selected the animal 
 which they thought would answer the purpose best. 
 As the ram was known to possess the foregoing peculi- 
 arities he was chosen to symbolize the division of the 
 heavens which produced the effect in man and called 
 it Aries, the Greek word for ram. 
 
 Taurus. — The next division of the heavens pro- 
 duced a short, stout body, a mild, pleasant disposition 
 until aroused, when he became as furious and terrible 
 as the bull. He was therefore chosen to symbolize 
 the second division of the heavens and called Taurus, 
 the Greek word for that animal. 
 
 Gemini. — The division following produced a quick, 
 active, pleasant disposition; a person fond of climbing 
 to high places. It being a double bodied sign, the 
 ancient astrologer symbolized it by the twin kids, but 
 later on they were substituted for the human twins, 
 because of the fine feelings and sensitive nature it pro- 
 duced. It is called a double bodied sign since the 
 moon in that sign at the birth of a male child causes 
 a plural marriage. The sun in that sign at the birth 
 of a female child causes a plural marriage. 
 
 Cancer. — The next division in the circle of the 
 heavens is Cancer, so named because it produces a 
 mild, inactive, non-aggressive character, who would 
 shun an enemy, but fond of the water, and like the 
 crab, prone to retreat; hence the crab was chosen as a 
 representative of the character produced by that di- 
 vision and elevated to the heavens. 
 
28 ZODIACAL SIGNS. 
 
 Leo. — As the lion was symbolical of the disposi- 
 tion produced by the succeeding division he was im- 
 mortalized in the heavens, and called Leo. 
 
 Virgo. — The next division produced a modest 
 character, pleasing in manner and possessing an un- 
 usual degree of refinement. For this reason the fairest 
 and purest of their tribes was chosen to symbolize the 
 division, and called Virgo, meaning the virgin. 
 
 Libea. — The following division produced a mild, 
 pleasant, inoffensive character, with a gentle and 
 yielding disposition, unvarying in manner and cour- 
 tesies. For these reasons this constellation was sym- 
 bolized by the balances. 
 
 Scorpio. — All persons born at the rising of the 
 succeeding division were pleasant so long as they were 
 not molested; could have their own way in all things; 
 but no sooner were they crossed or offended than they 
 became bitter and sarcastic; their tongues would sting 
 like the sting of a scorpion. For this reason the 
 scorpion was chosen to represent the disposition of the 
 person ruled by that sign. 
 
 Sagittarius. — The pecularity of the person born 
 at the rising of the next sign could not be illustrated 
 by any living animal. Therefore they were compelled 
 to invent a figure for that purpose, and since all 
 persons born at the rising of this sign were fond of 
 horses and hunting they had to combine the forms of 
 two animals, the man and horse. Consequently the 
 Centaur was invented and called Sagittarius, meaning 
 half man and half horse, and thus the division of the 
 
ZODIACAL SIGNS. 29 
 
 heavens which produced the effect was symbolized. 
 
 Capricornus. — The succeeding sign of the zodi- 
 acal belt produced a quiet person, having thin beard 
 and a peculiar springing gait, giving at the knees 
 when walking, and shaking his head when talking; 
 changeable and somewhat fickle. Some of these pecu- 
 liarities were seen in the goat; he was therefore 
 selected to represent the person born at the rising of 
 that zoadical division and named Capricornus, mean- 
 ing the watergoat. 
 
 Aquarius. — The succeeding division in the zodiacal 
 belt produced a degree of refinement, fondness for 
 flowers, pictures, paintings and decorations; as the 
 flowers were the only means they had of gratifying 
 that taste, they cultivated, watered and w r atched them; 
 thus the division was symbolized by the waterman. 
 
 Pisces. — Pisces the last sign in the circle of beasts, 
 is represented by the fishes, because that division of 
 the belt when rising produces a fondness for water, 
 swimming, boating, fishing as well as drinking. This 
 completes the Zodiac, which means a circle of beasts. 
 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 MATTER. 
 
 ATOMS. 
 
 'Tis glorious to gaze on the firmament, 
 And study the forces that be. 
 To watch from afar each planet and star, 
 that creates all life we can see. 
 
 But whence come those atoms of matter, 
 Which are sent from the planets to earth ? 
 To give force to the seed of the flower, 
 And to animal life give birth. 
 
 Man has struggled this problem to master 
 For thousands of years, they say, 
 But the source whence sprang those atoms 
 Will remain hidden forever, and aye. 
 
 Though man can analyze physical matter, and 
 separate it into its component elements, and also name 
 the gases of which it is composed, still matter is a 
 mystery to man. Whence it comes he does not know, 
 neither can he find out. Its original condition before 
 it resolved itself into suns, worlds and satellites is sup- 
 posed to have been gaseous, but how they were created 
 is not known. Some scientists think that gases have 
 always existed; perhaps it is true. 
 
 I have no serious objection to endorsing that view 
 of the matter myself, since it is a very safe position to 
 accept, because of no immediate danger of being dis- 
 lodged therefrom. Gases may have always existed, but 
 it matters not whether they have existed always or 
 only half that length of time. If the latter be true, I 
 cannot tell just when the first cloud began to form. 
 
MATTER. 31 
 
 How each atom of matter was endowed with its special 
 functions cannot be known, and why they will unite 
 with each other will continue to be unexplained. The 
 physical process of growth may be known, but the 
 chemical action never ! That is a point too subtle, and 
 a cause too remote for the grasp of the human mind; 
 nevertheless, some will speculate on causes as long as 
 they are able to think, reason or plan, or till nature 
 renders her most profound secret to man. Most people 
 are satisfied to let the subject rest, content with believ- 
 ing that all nature is the worK of an unknown and un- 
 seen hand. The thinking mind is always agnostic and 
 wants to know why. He is willing that God should 
 have all the honor there is in the office, when he is 
 satisfied that it belongs to an intelligent existing de- 
 signer and creator. But until that point is settled he 
 will ponder in doubt and continue to search for causes 
 until the end. So far as man can penetrate the secret 
 there is no power superior to the chemical action of 
 matter, which alone is able to create force, motion, 
 worlds and life. 
 
 When the human mind is able to grasp the laws 
 which cause two or more atoms to unite in creating 
 forms, animal or otherwise, he has comprehended all 
 there is of God, solved the problem of life, the growth 
 of bodies and the creation of worlds. To comprehend 
 the smallest act of nature is to understand her most 
 profound laws and stupendous works. Man knows 
 something of the planet on which he has built a tem- 
 porary home and has an imperfect knowledge of the 
 
32 MATTER. 
 
 solar system; but he cannot conceive the magnitude of 
 the mind required to plan or the strength of the arm 
 necessary to put into motion even the bodies which 
 revolve in such perfect order about the genial sun. 
 
 Probably man can comprehend a being able to 
 watch over this little world of ours, count the hairs of 
 the head, number the sands of the sea-shore with little 
 help, but he can know nothing of the being, able to 
 create boundless space and people it with flaming balls 
 of firey matter, dead bodies and opaque worlds; not to 
 mention the creation of gases. 
 
 A glance into starry space is enough to engulf the 
 thoughtful mind in a sea of reflection, and to reveal to 
 man his utter insignificance. Then, instead of extoll- 
 ing himself to the tenth heaven, there to sit beside the 
 architect and builder of the mighty universe, he will 
 feel more like clothing himself in sackcloth and ashes, 
 and seeking the society of one of heaven's discarded 
 angels, if he has enough vanity left to think himself 
 worthy the society of a member of the royal family. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 DISTANCE. 
 
 One of the very difficult obstacles to surmount in 
 the path leading the human mind up to the point of ac- 
 cepting the sublime philosophy of planetary influences 
 as set forth in astrology is the question of distance. 
 
 It is generally supposed that the planets and fixed 
 stars are too remote from the earth to have any 
 influence in the human organism, even if they do throw 
 off gases, notwithstanding the fact all thinking minds 
 know the contrary to be true, nevertheless they dispute 
 astrology. 
 
 It has been calculated this earth is about 92 mill- 
 ions of miles from the sun, a distance no one can com- 
 prehend, but when we read of a death from a sun-stroke 
 no one doubts the fact, but the thoughtful man ponders 
 long over the same, trying to solve the problem for him- 
 self, but he is sorely puzzled to explain how it was 
 done, to his own satisfaction, since he cannot under- 
 stand how heat can be transmitted so great a distance 
 with such a violent force simply by radiation, even 
 if the sun rays did not become cooled in making the 
 transit, how the earth could receive them with so much 
 violence after their force is nearly if not quite spent, as 
 one might well suppose, as they would be after travel- 
 ing that distance, is a thing not easy to understand. 
 
 To pass through that space at the rate of 250,000 
 miles per day would require about 365 days to complete 
 
34 DISTANCE. 
 
 this immense journey, even if there was no loss of 
 energy or heat during its transit. The earth would not 
 receive a sufficient number of electric volts to produce 
 the effect reported, therefore it is fair to conclude that 
 the theory of radiation is wrong; but it might be reason- 
 ably accounted for by the force of attraction. 
 
 By attraction of gases may be brought to the earth 
 with a much greater force than by radiation, because 
 the nearer the rays of heat approach the faster they 
 would advance. 
 
 But even if there was no difference in the force 
 produced on the earth by a single atom of matter by 
 these two laws, attraction would have the advantage 
 in the number of atoms collected at a given point on 
 the earth, since attraction converges, and consequently 
 would draw them together, while radiation diverges, 
 therefore would scatter, light heat and gases; so that 
 by the time they reach the earth they would have but 
 little force left to produce any effect. 
 
 The more atoms attracted to a given point the 
 greater would be the effect produced by them. There- 
 fore attraction is more reasonable than radiation, re- 
 gardless of the phenomena produced. Then if the earth 
 could attract sun forces she could also attract planetary 
 gases. Another evidence in favor of attraction is that 
 the planet Mercury supplies the gases which produces 
 the organs of causality. When Mercury is at the point 
 nearest the earth or about 50,000,000 of miles away he 
 is in his weakest position except the opposition, and 
 produces the least visible effect in the brain. 
 
DISTANCE. 35 
 
 When he is nearly twice that distance from the 
 earth he is then in his strongest position and produces 
 his greatest development of the brain. The explanation 
 for the different effects is as follows: The earth attracts 
 gases from the sun, consequently there is an immense 
 current passing between the sun and the earth. When 
 Mercury is passing through that current his gases are 
 so dissipated by the sun's rays that a child born at 
 that time cannot receive it, consequently causality 
 does not develop. But when Mercury is at his greatest 
 elongation he has passed out of the sun's rays, and 
 therefore his gases are attracted to the earth in his 
 purest state, so the brain of the child born at that 
 fortunate time can and does receive and utilizes them 
 in producing brain matter. 
 
 The foregoing facts I have many times proven by 
 locating the position of the planet Mercury from the 
 development of these organs, which is done simply by 
 the touch. When causality is large it is safe to say 
 that Mercury is free from the sun's beams. If the sun 
 radiates his forces to the earth then it would necessarily 
 follow that he would radiate them the same distance 
 in all directions from his center, consequently Mercury 
 would never be free from his beams, and the farther he 
 would be from the earth the greater would be the 
 depths of solar rays his gases would have to penetrate 
 to reach the earth, and the more they would be ab- 
 sorbed by the sun's forces in their journey, furthermore 
 the farther Mercury is from the earth the greater would 
 be the divergence of his rays, consequently a less num.- 
 
36 DISTANCE. 
 
 ber of them would reach the earth, therefore the farther 
 Mercury is from the earth the weaker should be his 
 effect in the brain, which is not true until he reaches 
 an afflicting point beyond the sun. When the sun's rays 
 again impede the forces of the Mercurial gases, when 
 his force is again weakened. Thus it can be seen that 
 it is not distance which produces the different effects in 
 the development of the Mercurial brain, but the attrac- 
 tion of the earth. 
 
 Mars, Venus, Mercury, when at their nearest ap- 
 proach to the earth are not nearly so far away as the 
 sun is all the time, therefore if the earth can attract 
 the sun's forces all the time, she should be able to 
 attract planetary gases at least, part of the time, even 
 if distance does interfere. 
 
 If the sun can radiate his heat and chemical forces 
 92,000,000 of miles and produce the above named effect 
 the planets could not, for their power of radiation must 
 be extremely limited, owing to their temperature, yet 
 they are known to affect the earth and all life on its 
 surface. If the gases were forced here it is not an easy 
 matter to understand why the atmospheric pressure 
 would decrease with the square of the distance from the 
 earth. If any difference the forces would work the 
 other way; for radiation of heat is one atom pushing 
 against another. Oxygen is required to produce fire, 
 when wood is being consumed, oxygen rushes in the 
 to the assistance of the carbon, thus crowding all of the 
 liberated gases outward. The greater the fire the more 
 force would be produced by the oxygen rushing in, and 
 
DISTANCE. 37 
 
 the faster would the gases be crowded into space; but 
 as fast as they would get room they would decrease in 
 motion, even if they did not stop altogether. Then, 
 after they had entered ethereal fields they would not 
 be likely to plunge on into a more dense atmosphere, 
 like that of the earth's, with a force so violent as to 
 destroy life in man and beast and vernal vegetation. 
 Scientific men have arranged it among themselves to 
 have the atmosphere retained at the earth's surface by 
 attraction, while light, heat and gases are affected 
 differently; but I protest against such absurdity, and 
 place them all under the same law, the law of attrac- 
 tion. The waters of the ocean are greatly agitated all 
 the time. The cause of its unrest is attributed princi- 
 pally to the attraction of the moon. The moon is a 
 much smaller body than the earth, but her admitted 
 attraction is sufficient to lift the water in midocean 
 one foot heavenward. If the moon, though only one 
 fiftieth size of the earth, can affect [the ocean to that 
 extent by attraction, then it is not unreasonable to 
 infer that the earth can attract gases from the heavenly 
 bodies. The moon is said to be a dead body; that is, 
 she has no moisture; therefore, life cannot be created 
 on her surface, nor could it long exist if it were created. 
 The want of moisture is ow r ing to the fact that she has 
 no affinity for both oxygen and hydrogen gases, the 
 union of which is necessary to produce water; but 
 doubtless she has a strong attraction for one of them, 
 the effect of which is to disturb the waters of the earth 
 by trying to separate those gases. 
 
38 DISTANCE. 
 
 Venus is a much larger body than the moon, and, 
 logically speaking, she ought to exert some force on 
 things mundane, even though it is not so sensibly felt 
 as the forces of the sun and moon. Her attraction for 
 some of the earth's gases might be just as powerful as 
 that of the moon, but not for oxygen or hydrogen, and 
 therefore her effect is not so discernible on the face of 
 the waters. 
 
 Owing to their immense distance from the earth 
 it is quite impossible to judge the effect one planet has 
 on another, by any variation from their usual course. 
 At most the effect can only be very slight. The influen- 
 ces of the sun and moon are plainly discernable on the 
 earth; but not so with the planets. Their effects are 
 only noticeable in the development of the brain, which 
 is the only way anything definite can be learned con- 
 cerning the influence on the earth. Tne remote posi- 
 tions of Uranus, Saturn ancT Jupiter from the earth, 
 their temperature, etc., positively forbids the power to 
 radiate their gase^>the immense distance through which 
 they must pass to reach the earth, and yet their gases 
 are known to be here. Therefore it must be conceded 
 that they reach the earth by the force of attraction. 
 
 The distance of Mars from the earth varies greatly. 
 His nearest approach to it being about 50 millions of 
 miles, his most remote point being about five times 
 that distance, or about 250 millions of miles. Yet 
 astrologers have discovered no difference in his influence 
 when at different points in his orbit at the time of 
 birth, which would not be the case if ke radiated his 
 
DISTANCE. 39 
 
 forces. He is just as potent when 250 millions of miles 
 away as when only 50 millions of miles from the earth. 
 In making his transit Mars is said to be more malific 
 when passing the conjunction of the sun, than when 
 passing in opposition to that luminary. Of this, how- 
 ever, I am not s ure, but if it is true I have no explana- 
 tion to offer for the paradox, but will leave it with those 
 who have made the (observation to clear up the mystery. 
 Mars is five times Tne" distance from the earth when 
 making his conjunction transit than when he is pass- 
 ing the opposition, and why he should be stronger when 
 he is farther from the earth, I cannot explain by any 
 hypothesis. 
 
 Mercury, like the moon, is also said to be a lifeless 
 body. Some scientific men say that he is hot; yes, red 
 hot, being so near the sun, only 37 millions of miles 
 away; others say he is cold as ice and hard as lead. 
 
 "Being so old and a long time dead 
 He is petrified, I tbink, they said." 
 
 I sometimes think that scientific men and religion- 
 ists enjoy studying subjects they know nothing about, 
 and upon which they never can become informed. 
 Perhaps it is because their views on the subjects, how- 
 ever wild and illogical, cannot be successfully disputed. 
 They therefore cannot be vanquished. 
 
 When men will study the planets in space without 
 first learning all they can about them at home, savors 
 of the unmentionable, and when they will dispute 
 known facts about the planets for selfish reasons, there 
 
40 DISTANCE. 
 
 is room to doubt their honesty or intelligence; yet these 
 men have great influence in society. 
 
 The author once read the horoscope of a young* 
 lady just before she visited Lick's observatory, on 
 Mount Hamilton, California. After taking a view of 
 the mighty planet Jupiter through the immense teles- 
 cope, she asked the man at the glass if there was any 
 truth in the planets having influence in the human 
 brain. "No," he replied, "Astrology is an ancient 
 myth." And the young lady, right in the face of per- 
 sonal evidence, believed the professor because he was 
 drawing a big salary. 
 
 Very little is known of the temperature of the 
 planets, and very little else except their motion and 
 influence in the human brain. If the fires of 
 Mercury have smouldered and gone out, and he 
 has no internal heat, and must depend upon the 
 heat of the sun to operate the quicksilver col- 
 column, his temperature does not run very high, and 
 unless his power of attraction for the sun's heat is 
 proportionately much greater than that of the earth, 
 he is not very hot, and the radiation of the sun's rays 
 could not affect his people disastrously; but so far as 
 his physical conditions affect the mental condition of 
 man on this earth, it matters not whether his people 
 bathe in lakes of molten lead, or live in huts of ice; 
 whether his gases are hot, cold, moist or dry. Their 
 effect on the earth would be the same under the law 
 of attraction, since the earth would only attract her 
 affinities from that body, and their temperature would 
 
DISTANCE. 41 
 
 be the same on reaching the earth, whatever their 
 condition might have been before leaving that body. 
 
 There is no evidence against the magnetic powers 
 of the earth being able to attract gases from any and 
 all celestial bodies regardless of distance. Venus is 
 very potent for good and, comparatively speaking, she 
 is very near the earth. Uranus is very potent for 
 evil, and on the contrary he is very remote from the 
 earth. But if by some sudden and mysterious force 
 these two planets should exchange places, their chem- 
 ical influence on the earth would not be changed in 
 the least degree; for the attraction of the earth is suffi- 
 cient to reach her affinities at any distance. 
 
 Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus are opaque bodies, 
 and could not radiate their gases for the want of heat, 
 even if the sun could throw his heat 92 millions of 
 miles; but the fact of the matter is, none of them do, 
 notwithstanding the fact that their gases are here and 
 the source whence they came is well known to all stu- 
 dents of astrology. Astrology was practiced thou- 
 sands of years prior to the discovery of Uranus, but so 
 closely did the ancient astrologers observe the plane- 
 tary effect in mankind that they discovered the influ- 
 ence of Uranus ; but not knowing whence it came, 
 they attributed it to the dragon's head and dragon's 
 tail, and part of fortune, the two former names being 
 given to the moon's nodes; the dragon's head being 
 the moon's north node, and the tail the south node; 
 and the part of fortune a given number of degrees 
 of areas, three imaginary points in the heavens whence 
 
42 DISTANCE. 
 
 originated no influence whatever; so when they found 
 a person whose horoscope they would not reveal their 
 characters without the employment of these imaginary 
 points, they were brought into use and were made to 
 account for the influences of the unknown planet. 
 Nor was the fallacy of this practice observed till after 
 the discovery of Uranus, which occurred in 1781; but 
 since that time astrologers have been gradually cast- 
 ing aside those old mythological notions till now 
 there is not an astrologer of repute who observes the 
 dragon's head, tail, and part of fortune; but all have 
 discarded them as vagaries. These facts are over- 
 whelming in favor of mundane attraction and plane- 
 tary influences, working in the human brain. If the 
 above named forces had not existed, the ancient mas- 
 ters would not have employed imaginary points in the 
 heavens to frame a theoretical science, when there are 
 so many bodies in space which would have answered 
 their purpose just as well, and which they could have 
 employed with much more reason if they were only 
 framing a hypothetical system of divination. But no — 
 their system was based on scientific principles; but 
 imperfect j because all of the planets were not known 
 to them. And Uranus, being so powerful when in a 
 certain position in the heavens, they could readiljy 
 recognize his effect in many of their subjects; conse- 
 quently they knew his influence existed, although the 
 planet was unknown. 
 
 Just here let me state a mathematical proposition: 
 If a spherical magnet, 7 inches in diameter, can 
 
DISTANCE. 43 
 
 attract a fluid 1000 miles, how far can the earth attract 
 gases, presuming both to be of equal power? Answer: 
 11,088,000,000, nearly six times the distance to 
 Uranus. I give this because the brain which is about 
 that size is believed by some to possess that power. 
 It has been stated by some that the Oriental psychics 
 can send and receive mental messages hundreds of 
 miles, which I have never disputed, because I have 
 known thought to be sent nearly 100 miles distant, 
 for which reason I cannot dispute a greater distance. 
 I was personally acquainted with a lady in Kansas, 
 whose husband was in the army during the rebellion. 
 He was stationed at Fort Scott, a distance of about 
 100 miles from home. This lady could always tell 
 when her husband was coming home on a furlough, 
 and so could her neighbors, for she told them before- 
 hand. She could give no reason for her knowledge. 
 She only knew it was true. It a brain can receive a 
 message through 100 miles of space filled with atmo- 
 sphere, why not further? and further what is to prevent 
 the earth from attracting gases through ethereal space. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 WORLDS. 
 
 It will scarcely be expected of any one writing on 
 scientific subjects to enter into a detailed account of 
 nature's methods of creation, even after she has so far 
 advanced her work as to create gases. Nevertheless, I 
 shall offer a theory which may or may not be original, 
 but so far as my knowledge extends it is not very 
 ancient. I do not present it for the purpose of trying 
 to establish a new T theory only so far as it seems neces- 
 sary to explain why celestial bodies harmonize with 
 each other, and how they produced life on the earth. 
 Without some plausible reason for astrology many 
 people would reject it without investigating; but with 
 the necessary explanations, accompanying practical 
 demonstrations, it will be readily accepted by them. 
 
 I know of nothing just like it in all the theories 
 introduced to the public, but be it original or second- 
 handed, it matters not to the author. He will present it 
 to the reader of Stellar Dust as the most plausible, not 
 to say scientific, in his judgment, of any theory yet 
 brought forward on the subject of world-building. By 
 some scientific men it is believed that confusion reigned 
 throughout the universe prior to the creation of phys- 
 ical matter, and that out of the chaotic condition of 
 gases the earth and other bodies evolved; but doubtless 
 such was never the condition of matter. Nature is a 
 stranger to confusion. No matter how complicated her 
 
WORLDS. 45 
 
 laws may be they never were confused. Should con- 
 fusion once reign it could never be dethroned; for con- 
 fusion implies the absence of law and order, without 
 which no physical results could be produced. What in 
 some cases might be considered chaos, is perfect order, 
 and what is said to be a violation of a natural law is 
 only a confirmation of that law; for natural laws are 
 not to be violated. But the ruling of one law^ might be 
 very different from that of another, and the changing 
 of their forces would produce different results in their 
 work. So far as man can judge by observing the at- 
 mosphere it is a confused body of gases, but from the 
 result of nature's works in the production of physical 
 form he is able to judge a true condition of her elements. 
 Nature's works are always perfect as the laws which 
 create them are perfect, and all laws are true to the 
 nucleus which they create, be it a flower, tree or world; 
 therefore the conclusion must be that nature and order 
 are synonymous terms. 
 
 Every atom that flies in space is alive with force 
 and endowed with more or less sensibility, if not in- 
 telligence. There is sound reason for thinking that 
 the different gases, 75 or more in number, are as per- 
 fectly organized in their chemical relations to each 
 other, while in their original state, as they are when in 
 physical forms. Though each atom of matter, while 
 in a gaseous state, is free to move about in its own 
 system undisturbed, nevertheless it cannot lose its 
 individuality nor its relationship to the nucleus to 
 which it belongs. Why one atom of matter will attract 
 
46 WORLDS. 
 
 another and repel the third is a deep mystery, but they 
 do, and in so doing they form associations, and thus 
 produce life of every kind. 
 
 A narrow survey of our immediate surroundings 
 confirms the truth of the statement that every form of 
 life is formed by the specific combination of gases. All 
 the fruit trees, shrubs, plants and flowers, differ from 
 each other in appearance, texture of wood, form of leaf 
 and odor emitted; but just w r hat suggested the original 
 nucleus still remains a mystery. 
 
 Motion is an innate function of matter, consequently 
 gases must have been in motion before they gathered 
 into separate bodies. In moving they form circles 
 about different centres. These currents may have 
 caused neuclei to form while rapidly moving in their 
 unvarying courses. The relation of the fixed bodies of 
 gases was the chemical relation they bore to each other, 
 for each gaseous body exercised an attractive and re- 
 pelling force. Each body of gas contained a nucleus 
 different from all other bodies, and about which they 
 gathered their affinities. The number of combinations 
 which it is possible to be produced, even by the gases 
 known to the people of earth, is innumerable. And 
 the unknown number might increase the combination 
 many fold. Thus under the law of attraction each and 
 every atom of matter in space was enabled to find its 
 place in the mighty universe of systems. When a 
 nucleus was established its individuality must con- 
 tinue through all time. If it could hold its position 
 n space and sustain the body of gases collected 
 
WORLDS. 47 
 
 against the attraction of all other nuclei for millions 
 of years, the transformation from a gaseous body to a 
 physical form would not change its individuality nor 
 power of attraction. Thus, once organized into sys- 
 tems, the universe of worlds must continue forever in 
 their established relations to each other without cl^sh 
 or disturbance. 
 
 In this way would every celestial body become a 
 central force, and thus would the smallest be able 
 with the largest body to hold its place in the vast 
 economy of nature. Thus was matter drawn together 
 and organized into systems of gases. In the course of 
 time a change came over the conditions of the nucleus 
 of each gaseous body which wrought in them a greater 
 power of attraction than they had previously pos- 
 sessed, but what produced the change I am unable 
 to explain, except it was motion. The greater the 
 motion the denser became the body. As the force of 
 attraction increased, physical matter was produced; 
 as physical matter formed, its density increased and 
 the play of friction began. The stronger the attrac- 
 tion the greater the friction till gradually it became so 
 great that heat was generated, which condition con- 
 tinued till the gases in the heavenly bodies were trans- 
 formed into physical matter and reduced to a molten 
 condition. The heat continued till all the mass 
 became as dense as the force of attraction could make 
 it, when the play of friction ceased altogether, after 
 which the cooling process began. The heat radiating 
 
48 WORLDS. 
 
 for a long period of time, finally the surface of the 
 earth became cool, and later on a crust formed, when 
 the once luminous became an opaque body. As the 
 crust became thicker, the surface became cooler until 
 it reached a proper degree of temperature to produce 
 incubation, when life was generated. As the crust 
 became too large to snugly fit to the molten matter 
 within, it was forced up on certain lines which 
 form mountain ranges extending from north to south. 
 The motion of the earth upon its axis doubtless caused 
 the crust to be thrown out upon those lines instead of 
 breaking on the equatorial parallels, and thus formed 
 mountain ranges running east and west. 
 
 After the earth had become cool enough, the 
 heavy clouds which surround it began to condense 
 and fall in rain, until vast bodies of water covered the 
 entire surface of the earth, for it was spherical. The 
 weight of water had a tendency to depress it, until 
 finally the crust gave way on certain lines and 
 crowded the surface out on parallel lines. The cen- 
 trifugal motion of the earth, in connection with the 
 weight of water on the surface, caused the mountain 
 ranges to form as they are now seen. Internal ex- 
 plosions, as some theorists explain, would throw the 
 crust up into one huge pile, like the peaks which are 
 seen on all mountain ranges, instead of in chains. 
 
 Be the foregoing true or false, it is the only theory 
 which will reasonably account for the different chemi- 
 cal constituents of the planets and fixed stars as they 
 are laid down in astrology. For this reason alone, 
 I shall defend the theory until a better one is brought 
 forw r ard. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 PLANETS. 
 
 Sun. — Beginning with the sun, center of the solar 
 system, which is said to contain 500 times as much as all 
 the rest of the matter within the limits of this mighty 
 system. It has been computed to be about 768,000 
 miles in circumference. Traveling at a speed of thirty 
 miles per hour, it would require only about forty days 
 to encircle the earth; but to girdle the equator 
 of the sun would require nine years, Sundays not 
 excepted, traveling at the same rate of speed. Appar- 
 ently he is stationary, but revolves on his axis fn a 
 little less than 26 days, at the astonishing velocity of 
 about 88,000 miles per hour. He is supposed to be 
 the giver and sustainer of all life, which is only true 
 in part. His density is computed to be 25 hundredths, 
 as compared with the earth, or about one-half as 
 heavy as water. 
 
 Mercury.- -Leaving the sun, and passing out 37 
 millions of miles into space, the orbit of Mercury is 
 reached, Here we find a planet 19 times smaller than the 
 earth. He is moonless, without atmosphere or life. 
 His diameter is 2962 miles. His density, compared 
 with that of the earth, is 1.24. He requires 88 days 
 to pass through all the signs of the zodiac in his jour- 
 ney about the sun. His velocity is 110,000 miles per 
 hour. He revolves on his axis in 23 hours. The 
 
50 PLANETS. 
 
 gases emanating from this planet produce intelligence 
 by developing the phrenological organs of casualty. 
 The color of this planet is red, with a bluish tint. 
 
 Venus. — Leaving the planet Mercury, and pass- 
 ing out toward the zodiac, the orbit of Venus is 
 reached at a point 68 millions of miles from the sun, 
 where is found the "goddess of love." She is com- 
 puted to be about the size of the earth. Her nights 
 are forever dark; perhaps that is the reason she is 
 not inhabited, for lovers will not woo where the moon 
 does not shine. If she possesses human life it is *>£_a 
 low intellectual order, far inferior to the people of 
 earth, and that is not saying much for them. She has 
 an atmosphere, though less dense than that of the 
 earth. Her diameter is 7510 miles. Her density is 
 .92, about the same as that of the earth. Her diurnal 
 revolution is about 23 hours. Her motion on the 
 equator is 1100 miles per hour. She moves in her 
 orbit at the rate of 77,057 miles per hour. Her color 
 on a bright, clear night is a mixture of silver and 
 gold. She produces the gases which develop the love 
 nature, fine arts and refinement in the people of earth, 
 and was therefore called the "goddess of love" by the 
 ancient "heathen" star-worshipers, but this is what 
 the tramp poet says about star and other worshipers. 
 The reader can take it for what it is worth: 
 
PLANETS. 51 
 
 WORSHIP. 
 
 "To gaze on the stars as they shine in the skies 
 
 And reflect their bright lights and their fore:'-. 
 And bow to their beauty and influence, is grand 
 To those who have sense above horses. 
 
 "But to worship a myth somewhere in the skies 
 And mumble a senseless phrase 
 Over a cracker and glass of wine 
 
 Is weak, even for a horse that brays." 
 
 The next resting place in our outward march 
 from the sun is the 
 
 Earth — About which very little is known. 
 Some scientific men say that she has an opening 
 clear through her center from the north to the south 
 pole; that she is inhabited and her people live on the 
 inside of her shell. Others say that she is solid as a 
 brick, and her people live on the surface. The latter 
 I know to be a fact — in some cases, at least. She has 
 one moon, and revolves upon her axis once in 24 
 hours, 48 minutes and 48 seconds. Her diameter is 
 7912 miles, and her distance from the sun is about 
 92 millions of miles. She has an atmosphere and pro- 
 duces life. Her density is one. Her orbital motion 
 is 65,533 miles per hour. 
 
 Mars. — We find the orbit of Mars 144 millions of 
 miles from the earth. He is next in size to Mercury, 
 and six times smaller than the earth. He has two 
 moons, a rarified atmosphere, and may produce life. 
 He is agricultural in his habits, and mineral produc- 
 ing in his resources, which facts are established by 
 the discovery of an irrigating canal which extends 
 across his entire surface, and three sluice boxes in the 
 
52 PLANETS. 
 
 mining districts. His diameter is 4920 miles. His 
 density is 1.24, which makes its surface harder than 
 that of the earth, but their plows are made of better 
 steel and their horses are stronger. His diurnal revo- 
 lution is completed in 24 hours and 37 minutes. His 
 velocity at the equator is 628 miles per hour. His 
 velocity about the sun is 53,000 miles per hour. His 
 year is 684 days, and his color is fiery red. 
 
 Jupiter. — This is the largest planet in the solar 
 system. He is 490 millions of miles from the sun. 
 He has five moons, consequently is blessed by 
 moonlight every night in the year. He is young in 
 maturity, and is not supposed to have reached a point 
 in his development that would enable him to produce 
 a family, and is therefore supposed to be uninhabited. 
 The diameter of this mighty speck of matter is said to 
 be 88,390 miles. His density is estimated to be even 
 less than that of the sun, which, if true, would involve 
 a very difficult problem for astronomers to solve, since 
 that would make him a luminous body. He is known 
 to be opaque; but perhaps he is in his gaseous state, 
 and has not yet reached his luminous condition, and 
 therefore is liable to blaze forth at any time, and thus 
 add another beautiful sun to our system. I think, 
 however, he has passed the bright days of his youth, 
 and has entered, if not passed his fruitful period, and 
 since hs sustains such perfect relationship to the 
 zodiac and the planets in our solar system, I must 
 conclude that he is inhabited, not by a low order of 
 animal life, but by a superior race of beings, which 
 
PLANETS. 53 
 
 I judge to be true from the number of moons he pos- 
 sesses. If each of these is as powerful in developing 
 brain matter as the earth's moon is, his people have 
 at least five times the amount of brain power that the 
 people of earth possess. Again, if his attraction for 
 zodiacal gases is in proportion to his size, his people 
 must be 1200 times larger than the people of this 
 earth. If a Jupiter man, in his red shirt, was to step 
 on this planet, with trumpet in hand, the whole Sal- 
 vation Army would have a regular Hallelujah meet- 
 ing without notice, and that God had set up his king- 
 dom upon earth; but since there would hardly be 
 room enough in our streets for his big feet, it would 
 not be wise to extend an invitation to the Governor of 
 Jupiter. The diurnal revolution of Jupiter is com- 
 pleted in 9 hours and 55 minutes of earth time. His 
 solar speed is 28,744 miles per hour. His equatorial 
 speed is 27,985 miles per hour, which is nearly 28 
 times faster than the earth moves at her equator. 
 His year is 12 mundane years. His seasons are three 
 years each. His color is a soft red. He was wor- 
 shiped by the ancients as the God of Justice. He is 
 the greater beneflc, and the redeeming feature in the 
 plan of life, if there was any plan in it. 
 
 Saturn. — Saturn is the next orb encountered on 
 our outward march toward the pleaids. He contains 
 an immense bulk of matter, being only one-sixth less 
 than that of Jupiter. He is one thousand times larger 
 than the earth. He has two marvelous rings, and 
 eight beautiful moons, sublime in his aspect, but ex- 
 
54 PLANETS. 
 
 ceedingly malific in his influence. He is an opaque 
 body, and said to be light as cork. His density is said 
 to be only .12, which, however, is not true, or he too 
 would be a luminous body. He has an atmosphere, 
 and I judge has life on his surface. His diameter is 
 71,904 miles; his diurnal motion is 10 hours and 29 
 minutes. His equatorial speed is 21,528 miles per 
 hour, his year is 29-§ mundane years. His seasons are 
 nearly eight years long, and his orbital motion is 
 21,221 miles per hour. He is the greater malific. 
 
 Uranus. — In the immense flight across the fields 
 of space from the sun, travelling at railroad speed of 
 720 miles a day, we reach the orbit of Uranus after a 
 journey of more than seven thousand years, through 
 1,800 millions miles of space. Here we find a planet 
 100 times larger than our earth. His diameter is 
 33,000 miles. His density is .18, and therefore should 
 be luminous. He travels in his orbit at the rate of 
 30.787 miles per hour. He has a pale ashy color and 
 possesses five moons. He is sensitive, original, mechan- 
 ical and intuitive in his influence in the human brain, 
 and may or may not be inhabited. 
 
 Neptune, — Speeding outward to the extremity of 
 the solar system, through 27,747 millions of miles of 
 space, after a continuous journey of 12,000 years, we 
 reach the orbit of Neptune, where is found a planet 
 perhaps 50 times larger than our earth, and possessing 
 four moons. He too may have an atmosphere, and 
 also possess life. His diurnal motion is unknown, but 
 
PLANETS. 
 
 55 
 
 his orbital motion is estimated to be 11,958 miles per 
 hour. His diameter is? His density is said to be .17, / 
 which would make him luminous also. Consequently 
 we ought to have thxee-move suns in our solar system, 
 if the theory of creation set forth in the foregoing 
 pages is correct and their density known. 
 
 ^ \$¥ 
 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 CENTRIPETAL FORCE. 
 
 The philosophy of this doctrine was laid down in 
 the following form: The sun was once a mass of 
 molten matter, and also a mighty magnet, possessing 
 rotary motion. It completed its revolution on its axis 
 in a little less than 25 days. This motion created 
 centrifugal force. Its attraction is called centripetal 
 force. These two forces were continually in operation, 
 the one to throw apart and the other to hold together. 
 solar matter — the stronger to prevail. In the case in 
 question centrifugal overcame the centripetal, and 
 mass after mass was hurled into space, and eventually 
 became planets. 
 
 According to the aforesaid theory, after a mass of 
 matter was sent flying off from the sun, centripetal 
 held it in check, and finally brought it to a circular 
 motion about that body; but it not being strong 
 enough to recover the detached fragments, it continued 
 to follow the same path from that time down to the 
 present. In substance, this is the theory advocated 
 by some astronomers. It has long prevailed, patiently 
 awaiting the arrival of a more reasonable one to su- 
 percede it. It is a good theory to believe outside the 
 school of logic. 
 
 The Explanation. — The foregoing theon^ is uni- 
 
EXPLANATION. 57 
 
 ersally taught, and owing to its extreme popularity 
 is not a pleasant subject to attack. In fact it is quite 
 a serious matter to assume the responsibility of trying 
 to overthrow a theory so well founded in the minds of 
 all, and one so universally taught throughout the 
 entire world as this one is. If universal recognition 
 of a supposed truth is conclusive in establishing it as 
 a scientific fact, it would be useless to question this 
 one; for it is recognized by all nations as the cause of 
 planetary motion. To assail it will no doubt incur 
 the displeasure of all its friends, who will receive it as 
 an insult to science and an offence to the highest stan- 
 dard of intelligence, if not as an absolute crime, for 
 which the offender should be punished. However, it 
 is laid down in legal lore that a man is innocent of an 
 alleged crime until proven guilty; though all the world 
 may be arrayed against him, the fact of his guilt must 
 be established before sentence can be pronounced on 
 him. The knowledge of these facts is encouraging^ 
 since there is nothing to be feared from the tribunal of 
 justice, whatever may be the opinion of the lobby, for 
 the reason that the theory is not in the least degree 
 logical in its conclusions, nor is it satisfactory to any 
 thinking mind that has not been thus instructed in 
 its youth and learned to believe it as it has learned to 
 accept many other teachings because of their current 
 worth. The forces in question, however, are not estab- 
 lished by scientfic facts, sound logic, nor even 
 by a process of mild reasoning, but simply by common 
 consent, which I must admit is of itself not a very 
 
58 EXPLANATION. 
 
 domestic force for a lone combatant to oppose ; 
 but knowing the weakness ,of the enemy's guns, and 
 the vantage ground of their foe, I hesitate not to enter 
 the conflict for championship of theories- The vind- 
 icator of these forces, in order to make any kind of a 
 defense, must first show that the solar system is an 
 individual entity of stellar matter, possessing an inde- 
 pendent force, deriving all of its powers, just or unjust, 
 from a solar orb. He must also show that it is a self- 
 supporting factor of the mighty universe, and that the 
 sun is the parental center, which once possessed all 
 the matter now belonging to the solar system, which 
 will not be an easy task for him to perform. Until 
 the foregoing points shall be established he will have 
 no permanent basis on which to rest his defense, and 
 after it is accomplished he will be wholly at sea with- 
 out boat, paddle or compass. In reality I think the 
 theory has no staunch defenders among the thinking 
 class of people, if, indeed, it has any. It is taught to 
 fill an otherwise blank page in natural philosophy. 
 This theory does not appeal to human reason since 
 there are no facts to support it. It at once becomes 
 legless, and therefore cannot stand. Then, with a more 
 logical theory to take its place, it must soon become 
 friendless and eventually die in obscurity. However 
 easy to perform, this is a task I would rather shirk, 
 and did at one time seriously think of omitting it from 
 these pages since I have so many other drains on my 
 vital forces, a limit of time and want of space. Find- 
 ing the work imperfect without it, I thought it would 
 
EXPLANATION. 53 
 
 be better to offer a few stray hints than to leave the 
 subject wholly unmentioned, even if the arguments are 
 not all I wished them to be, nor satisfactory to the gen- 
 eral reader. Enough, however, will be given that the 
 thinking mind may grasp the contents of the subject,, 
 while the student of nature will have an ample foun- 
 dation on which to rear a greater structure if he wish 
 to, or, for the critic to rend asunder the whole fabric 
 of argument thus woven, and scatter its worthless frag- 
 ments under the feet of a rejoicing multitude. At any 
 rate, I w T ill give enough of the theory for all practical 
 purposes, and then leave it with the candid reader to 
 dispose of as pleases him best. 
 
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CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CRITICISM. 
 
 Without going back to inquire after the sun's 
 origin, his orbit, physical constituents, or the cause of 
 his motion, I will take him as he is, or was supposed to 
 have been, when he possessed all the matter belonging 
 to the solar system. 
 
 1. It is not necessary to ask why he began his 
 rotary motion. It is sufficient to know that he re- 
 volves on his axis. 
 
 2. It is not necessary to ask why he became hot. 
 It is all sufficient to know that he was in that state 
 when he flew to pieces. 
 
 3. It is not necessary to ask why or how he be- 
 came imbued with centripetal force. It is only neces- 
 sary to know that he possessed attraction. Conced- 
 ing all of the foregoing points to be non-essential, I 
 will try, without their assistance, to show the fallacy 
 of the alleged forces in producing the wonderful phe- 
 nomena of planetary motions. 
 
 If the sun possessed all the functions accorded to 
 him, we will have to presume that he honestly came 
 into possession of them, and that, too, by a natural 
 cause. It will also be necessary to presume that, like 
 other bodies, he grew, and therefore must have i - 
 creased by a natural process of growth. After reach- 
 
CRITICISM. 61 
 
 ing a certain size, the centrifugal force became too 
 strong for the centripetal to hold the mass of matter 
 thus collected, and therefore a part of it was released 
 from the main bulk and hurled far into space. Ad- 
 mitting this to be true, the loss of a part of this huge 
 bulk of matter would not change the original condi- 
 tion of the nucleus, and therefore it would continue to 
 collect matter as before. In the course of time the 
 accumulation of matter would again equal the for- 
 mer body, when the overplus would be cast off 
 Thus would the rjrocess continue till all of the avail- 
 able gaseous matter had been transformed into solar 
 matter and throw r n off into space. 
 
 This is the only logical view to be taken of the 
 subject, if indeed it has any logical side to it. Then, 
 of course, the planets would not only all be of the 
 same size, but would occupy the same position in 
 space, because centripetal could hold together 
 just so much matter against the power of cen- 
 trifugal force. Therefore, when a given amount 
 had be^n collected, another mass of matter would 
 then be thrown off into space. If the masses were of 
 of equal size, which they would necessarily be, since 
 the two operating forces would be the same all the 
 time, then, if they are equal in size, they would 
 reach the same point in space, for bodies of equal size, 
 projected by the same force, must necessarily reach the 
 same point. 
 
 The sun now revolves on his axis once in 25 days? 
 14 hours and 8 minutes, and there is no reason to 
 
62 CRITICISM. 
 
 think that his rotary motion was different at any for- 
 mer time. Heavenly time tables always remain the 
 same. No changes are made, so far as known, to ac- 
 commodate theories, science or religion. But admit- 
 ting that one mass might have been a trifle larger 
 than another, does not account for the w T ide differ- 
 ence existing between the size of the respective orbits 
 of the planets; therefore, their differences cannot be 
 explained by that hypothesis. 
 
 Neptune and Uranus are computed to be equal in 
 size; therefore, if projected by the same force, they 
 would have reached the same point in space and now 
 occupy the same orbit or orbits very near together. 
 Yet, the former planet is said to be twice the distance 
 from the sun as that of the latter. Saturn is computed 
 to be one-sixth smaller than Jupiter, yet he is nearly 
 twice Jupiter's distance from the sun. Mars is com- 
 puted to be only one-sixth the size of the earth; there- 
 fore, if projected by the same force, he ought to have 
 reached a point in space, far beyond the earth, if 
 the ratio between the earth and himself was the same 
 as that of Saturn and Uranus; but he is said to be 
 only one-third farther from the sun than is the earth, 
 while Mercury, which is the smallest of the principal 
 planets, is the nearest to the sun; but admitting that 
 the planets, by some inexplicable force, were detached 
 from the sun and transported to their present places 
 in space, all in good condition, still we find a difficulty 
 in getting them trained into their proper places. The 
 sun being a magnet, it necessarily follows that all 
 
CRITICISM. 63 
 
 other suns possess a similar force of attraction. There- 
 fore, while the solar orb exerts an attractive influence 
 over all other heavenly bodies, it necessarily follows 
 that they must exert a similar influence over him, and 
 consequently over every fractional part of him; which 
 being true, the planets would be influenced by them in 
 proportion to the size of matter each contains. 
 
 Let us suppose the earth to- have been thrown 
 from the sun; the cause of it being detached from that 
 body was the inability of a centripetal force to sustain 
 that bulk of matter intact with the parental mass, and 
 therefore let it go, when the earth flew off 92 million 
 of miles from the sun. 
 
 Xow arises the question: Could centripetal force 
 check the flight of a discarded mass of matter and 
 bring it to a circular motion, and hold it at a com- 
 paratively regular distance from the sun, while mov- 
 ing at the rate of 65.000 miles per hour? According 
 to physics, the ratio of force of projected bodies de- 
 creases with the square of a distance; therefore, as the 
 earth receded from the parental center, the sun would 
 lose instead of gain power over it, and, inversely, as bod- 
 ies approach each other, the force of attraction would 
 increase with the square of the distance, which would 
 have a tendency to carry the earth in a straight line, 
 and eventually cause it to pass out of the solar 
 system. If centripetal force were unable to sus- 
 tain that weight of matter when it was in the most 
 favorable position to be controlled, it is not likely that 
 
64 CRITICISM. 
 
 it could call it to halt and bring it to in a circle about 
 his own body, when so far away. 
 
 But the advocates of this time-worn theory no 
 doubt will deny that the fixed stars have an influence 
 over the matter within the solar system. In fact, 
 they are compelled to do so in order to sustain their 
 theory; but if it were possible for the sun's attraction 
 to force the planets in a circular motion, it is not a 
 logical conclusion that they would remain in exactly 
 the same path for millions of years. Even if that 
 were possible, all must agree that their orbits must 
 describe a perfect circle, each degree of which should 
 be an equal distance from the center of the sun; in 
 fact, it could not be otherwise, if the sun produced all 
 the force which controlled them, but, on the contrary, 
 ne is not in the center of the orbit of a single planet. 
 If, as is alleged by the advocates of the Kepler 
 theory, the solar system once had two suns, or 
 centers around which the planets revolved, and which 
 caused them to move in an elliptical path, then they 
 would all elongate toward the same point in space, but 
 since they clo not, and no ashes or cinders of the miss- 
 ing sun were found, the agnostic will ask for an 
 explanation. 
 
 The earth's orbit is a decided ellipse, while Mars 
 varies from the true circle 26,868,000 miles, about l-6th 
 the diameter of bis orbit, which facts alone should de- 
 stroy the old theories without any other evidence or 
 explanation. But even if this motion could be intelli- 
 gently explained, there is another that would puzzle 
 
CRITICISM. 65 
 
 a couple of brilliant professors to elucidate to a 
 natural philosopher. The planets, in moving about 
 the sun. do not move in a regular curve, but execute a 
 serpentine movement; why they do has never been 
 satisfactorily explained by them, but if this, with all 
 of the other mysteries connected with the unreasonable 
 theory could be satisfactorily explained, the following 
 will forever silence the advocates of centripetal and 
 centrifugal forces. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 PLANETARY MATTER. 
 
 If the sun was once a mass of molten matter 
 and also a mighty magnet, by a gradual 
 process of growth increased in size, he was 
 then composed of a given combination of matter, 
 because his nucleus would attract no other kind than 
 its affinities. Therefore, all different masses of matter 
 which were thrown from that body must necessarily 
 be of the same chemical constituents, to which fact all 
 must agree. Therefore, all of the planets thrown from 
 the sun must be the same in their physical and chem- 
 ical constituents. Venus has elements peculiar to 
 herself; Mars has elements peculiar to himself; while 
 Jupiter has elements peculiar to the nucleus which 
 created him — which facts alone are enough to destroy 
 the old theory in the estimation of all astrological 
 students, even if others persist in clinging to it. 
 
 There is a vast difference in the size of the re- 
 spective planets, which ought not to be the case. In 
 the color of the lights they shed there is no resemb- 
 lance existing between any two of them. In their 
 diurnal motion there is but little resemblance existing 
 between any two of them. In their influence in the 
 human brain, which is a crowning evidence against 
 
PLANETARY MATTER. 67 
 
 the world-wide theory, there is absolutely no likeness 
 whatever. 
 
 If all this evidence taken together would not de- 
 stroy the groundless theory of the above-described 
 solar forces, then human reason is hard to reach. 
 
 Nebula Theory. — The neblu* theory, too, finds a 
 place in the pages of philosophy, but it, too, is want- 
 ing in the essential points of a science, and will not 
 gracefully bear criticism. 
 
 If the supposition is true that all the matter now 
 belonging to the solar system was once collected in one 
 vast molten body, of course it is spherical, since that 
 is the form of all constantly moving bodies. As it 
 condensed and cooled, according to theory, the center 
 shrank from the surface, and thus cracked and dis- 
 carded an outer shell. The shell thus discarded by 
 the central sun fell to pieces, and was attracted to- 
 gether and formed a planet. 
 
 Of course, that theory is easy to understand, after 
 it is known how many pieces the broken shell pro- 
 duced, and which way they slid off the sun, and which 
 w T as the largest, and how fast each piece had to move 
 to overtake the one that w^as moving as fast as they 
 were, and what force detained them in their orbits 
 while the sun shrank away from them, for he must 
 still exert the power of attraction over them. No 
 wonder the astronomers wanted to dissolve partner- 
 ship with the astrologers, so they could find time to 
 calculate the motion of matter and explain theories. 
 But if the theory is correct, the first shell discarded 
 
68 PLANETARY MATTER. 
 
 should have produced the largest planei, and overcome 
 the force of the sun's attraction, till all the pieces had 
 overtaken each other and formed a planet. The sec- 
 ond shell would produce a planet second in size and 
 the third still smaller, and so on tiil the last one was 
 reached, which would be the smallest of the entire set. 
 
 On the contrary, we find no such a regularity in 
 their sizes and positions in space, the planet produced 
 by the first shell discarded being only one-tenth the 
 size of Saturn, though his shell occupied half the dis- 
 tance from his remote side to the remote side of Sat- 
 urn, from the sun, and perhaps still more space than 
 that. 
 
 Uranus, the planet produced by the next shelL 
 contains the matter which occupied half of the re- 
 maining distance from Neptune to the sun and should 
 not be nearly half so large as Neptune, yet he is com- 
 puted to be equal to, if not greater than he. 
 
 Saturn comes next and the matter composing this 
 planet occupied half of the remaining distance and 
 should be still smaller than Uranus, but he is said ta 
 be one-sixth larger. 
 
 Mars comes next, and should be, according to the 
 law of decrease, much larger than the earth, but on 
 contrary he is six times smaller. Thus we find no 
 evidence to support the nebula theory. 
 
 There are many nebula theories, but none of 
 them satisfactory. In the foregoing theory^ the 
 planets should all be alike in their constituent ele- 
 ments, for the nucleus which attracted the chemical 
 
PLANETARY MATTER. 63 
 
 elements would attract but one combination, conse- 
 quently each would produce the same colored lights 
 and have the same influence in the human brain, 
 which they do not. 
 
 Density. — The density, of course, would have 
 something to do with the size of the body, but even 
 that throws no light on the subject, for it is a reason- 
 able presumption that the first body thrown off would 
 reach its greatest density first, since it would have to 
 be cold enough to crack and break loose before it could 
 be discarded. But according to the calculations, the 
 last planet thrown off has the greatest degree of 
 density. 
 
 Another Theory. — If the sun was a hand-made 
 machine, and manufactured out of molten matter, 
 and set to spinning around like a musical top on an 
 open floor, we can better understand how he slopped 
 over and scattered his fragments throughout the solar 
 system, regardless of size, form or regularity, before he 
 settled down to a level-headed speed; but the theory 
 would involve too many perplexing questios for pract- 
 ical purposes; for the small boy would ask who made 
 the sun and what was he made of? Who melted the 
 lead to make him? What did they mould him in and 
 how long was he cooling? How long was the string 
 they used to make him spin? Was it a big man that 
 set him going, and could a small boy make him spin? 
 What kind of a pavement did they start him on? and 
 diverse questions calculated to distract the mind of his 
 mamma and cause the Sunday school superintendent's 
 head to get an extra dig, and make the school teacher 
 cross for a whole week. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 PROPELLING FORCE. 
 
 Since having disposed of centripetal and centri- 
 fugal forces, it will be necessary to supply the planets 
 with a propelling power, which is more forcible in its 
 operation, more comprehensible in its explanations, 
 and more logical in its conclusions, than the discarded 
 theory embraces, or the tearing clown arguments as 
 previously set forth, will not be acceptable to the phi- 
 losophical reader. According to the deposed forces, 
 the sun is the absolute ruler of all force in motion 
 existing within the solar system; but I shall attempt 
 to show that he plays only a small role in the beautiful 
 panorama of celestial motion. Elsewhere I have set 
 forth theoretical explanation for the formation of the 
 planets, and how they found their places; but their 
 exact motions in circumscribing their orbits was 
 not given. Consequently, I will now proceed to 
 explain the cause for their very eccentric movements. 
 All of these mysterious bodies move about the sun in 
 perfect order and harmony, and are continually fol- 
 lowing the same unvarying courses which they have 
 pursued since their first cycles were completed. So 
 true are they in their motions that any point in the 
 heavens which a given planet may occupy at any 
 stated time in the near future may be calculated with 
 
PROPELLING FORCE. 71 
 
 a marked degree of precision. Owing to their uniform 
 motions it is evident that there is an unabating force, 
 which sustains the planets in their celestial rounds, 
 or occasionally they would vary from their usual paths, 
 even if they did not lose their bearings altogether. 
 
 We have been informed by astronomers that the 
 planets disturb each other when moving near to- 
 gether. That being true, it would not be out of place 
 to ask what force in nature settled them back in their 
 places after being drawn or crowded out of their eter- 
 nal pathway for a considerable length of time, while 
 moving side by side, which some planets do for years. 
 Saturn and Uranus are at this time, 1895, very 
 near together, where they will continue to be for years 
 to come, without producing any commotion in the 
 heavens or causing any unusual results so far as 
 known. Of course they must interfere with each other 
 now if they did when Dr. Herschel noticed a change 
 in the movement of Saturn when Uranus was discov- 
 ered. Owing to his great distance, it would be 
 impossible for Dr. Herschel to be able to discover 
 Saturn's eccentric movements, with his very im- 
 perfect glass, even if they occurred. If centripetal 
 And centrifugal forces located the orbits of the planets 
 in the w r ay the theory describes, I am unable to 
 understand how any planet can be pulled, pushed or 
 jostled out of its accustomed orbit and yet remain un- 
 varying in its motion, and be promptly on hand to 
 make connection with all astronomical calculations, 
 which are sometimes made years ahead of time; per- 
 
72 PROPELLING FORCE. 
 
 haps the reader can, but those who are delicate must 
 receive it in doses to suit their mental digestion. The 
 author acknowledges his inability to successfully dis- 
 pose of such indigestible philosophy. How a planet 
 could fly off at a tangent for a short period of time, or 
 even affect others to the extent of causing the slightest 
 deviation from their true courses, even when they are 
 moving side by side, I am unable to understand, and 
 especially is it improbable under the old theory of 
 centripetal and centrifugal forces. Since the solar 
 forces are insufficient, in the estimation of the author,, 
 to create and sustain the many motions executed by 
 the planets, he feels called upon to replace the dis- 
 carded theory with the following 
 
 Illustration. — Though subject to revisions and 
 corrections, it. is not wholly wanting in the essential 
 of a science. Whatever it may lack in detail, it has a 
 thoroughly scientific basis for its origin, and therefore 
 cannot fail to attract attention. It was discovered 
 after many years of hard and efficient study in con- 
 nection with the zodiacal forces. These forces, for 
 thousands of years, have been knowm to affect the 
 human body. It is therefore not a visionary scheme. 
 concocted for the special purpose of deceiving the 
 reader, as shown in the following evidence. There are 
 two forces existing in the human brain called attrac- 
 tion and repulsion. They produce all likes, dislikes ? 
 friendship, enmity, and assist in producing all of the 
 love and hatred that exists in the human family; but 
 w T hich forces have not been clearly understood. Why 
 
PROPELLING FORCE. 73 
 
 strangers at their first greeting form ties of lasting 
 friendship, and others fall passionately in love at the 
 first meeting of their eyes, has always been a deep 
 mystery to all save the interpreter of the language of 
 the stars. Why dislikes should enter the brains of 
 two entire strangers was hard to understand. 
 
 The principal influences which produce the above- 
 named effect are known to originate with the zodiacal 
 divisions of the heavens, and effect the different class 
 of people as follows: There are as many different 
 classes of people as there are divisions of the zodiac. 
 These twelve classes are sub-divided into many classes. 
 In the first class, which is ruled by the movable signs, 
 there exist but little sympathy, few likes and no love. 
 Among those born under the rule of the next class i& 
 found much sympathy, friendship and love. After- 
 demonstrating the foregoing facts, I came to the con- 
 clusion that the human body could not be so radically 
 affected, or, rather, hold such strong affinities and an- 
 tipathies, for the zodiacal elements and the earth re- 
 main wholly unaffected by them. This thought led to 
 a further inquiry, and finally to the conclusion that 
 the movements of the earth were produced by zodiacal 
 and not solar forces; but I found some trouble in com- 
 paring and harmonizing the influences thus discov- 
 ered, since the zodiacal forces were not just the same 
 as they were on the earth. 
 
 The earth and the moon I found to be attracted to 
 alternate zodiacal divisions, while the human body 
 appeared to be attracted very irregularly, which mide 
 
74 PROPELLING FORCE. 
 
 the influences quite difficult to understand. But since 
 it was known that each division of the heavens im- 
 parted a certain magnetic influence to all persons 
 horn at its rising, which, without any opposition or 
 counteracting influence, would cause each person to 
 act on all others the same as the zodiacal influences 
 upon the earth. It was found upon closer examina- 
 tion that the effect was different. Then, in order to 
 trace out the zodiacal influences in man, and learn 
 how they would influence each other magnetically, I 
 selected twelve persons, each of whom was born at the 
 rising of a different zodiacal division. I then arranged 
 them in a circle corresponding with the zodiacal signs, 
 and then traced out their influences in each other, and 
 thereby learned their attracting and repelling forces, 
 as affecting each other. 
 
 Beginning at one born at the rising of Aries, I 
 learned that he was attracted to the one born at the 
 rising of the division of Taurus and Gemini, but re- 
 pelled by the one born at the rising of Cancer. Then, 
 again, he was attracted to the one born at the rising 
 of the sign Leo, but with the one born at the rising of 
 the next sign, Virgo, there was a neutral influence ob- 
 served. The next sign, Libra, I found, produced an 
 inharmonious feeling toward the Aries character. 
 
 Passing to the next sign, Scorpio, I found a neu- 
 tral feeling existing between the two. The next one, 
 born at the rising of Sagittarius, was attracted to the 
 Aries person. The next man, born at the rising of 
 the sign Capricornus, was repelled, but the next two, 
 
PROPELLING FORCE. 75 
 
 Aquarius and Pisces, were attracted to Aries. Thus I 
 found the effect was the same, both right and left from 
 Aries, till reaching the opposition sign, Libra. On 
 each sign two are attracted, one repelled, one attracted 
 and one neutral, when the opposition was reached, 
 w r hich produced a repulsive feeling. Then, taking the 
 Taurus man and passing him around the circle, I 
 found the order to be the same, but he was attracted. 
 to and repelled from different ones. Thus I found, 
 the Taurus man to be attracted to the first two to the 
 right, which was Gemini and Cancer, and repelled 
 from Leo, attracted to Virgo, neutral with Libra, and 
 repelled by Scorpio. Then, returning to the starting 
 point, and passing the other way, I found the attract- 
 ive, repulsive and neutral feeling the same as in the 
 former case: attracted to Aries and Pisces, repelled by 
 Aquarius, attracted, to Capricornus, neutral to Sagitta- 
 rius and opposed by Scorpio. Gemini, like all the 
 remaining signs, work the same. This man was 
 attracted to the first two on the right, which was Can- 
 cer and Leo, and repelled by Virgo, attracted to Libra, 
 neutral to Scorpio and repelled by Sagittarius. On 
 the left I found the Gemini person to be attracted to 
 Taurus and Aries, repelled by Pisces and attracted to 
 Aquarius, neutral with Capricornus. 
 
 At first I thought their influence a little irregu- 
 lar, but on making the application I found the rule 
 applicable to each zodiacal sign. But why the influ- 
 ence varied, as it did, with the alternate divisions of 
 the zodiac, was a problem I found very difficult to 
 
76 PGOPELLING FORCE. 
 
 comprehend. The only explanation I could find for 
 such eccentricities in nature's work was that the earth, 
 being somewhat foreign to the zodiac, had an inflence 
 of her own which the zodiac could not altogether over- 
 come, and that a child being born at a given point on 
 the earth could not receive in full force all of the zodi- 
 acal elements, owing to the position he occupied, hence 
 the eccentric influence is found to exist in the people. 
 The earth, not having any environments, or rather 
 being a part of the great economy of nature, had 
 affinities in the alternate divisions; therefore was at- 
 tracted to six and repelled from six of the zodiacal 
 divisions, which causes her to exercise a serpentine 
 movement. The moon being composed of similar ele- 
 ments, occupies the same orbit as the earth, but its 
 nucleus being somewhat different, causes it also to be 
 attracted to alternate signs, and the divisions of the 
 zodiac which attract the earth repel the moon. It the 
 nuclei of the earth and the moon had been the same 
 they would have both occupied the same place in 
 space, consequently there would have been only one 
 instead of two bodies, or else one would have followed 
 the other in the same path, but as it is they cross and 
 recross each other's orbits in their journey about the 
 sun. These attractive and repulsive influences of the 
 zodiac cause the vibratory motion of the earh, as well 
 the moon; but the zodiacal divisions which cause the 
 earth and moon to vibrate may not affect the other 
 planets just the same, though they all have a similar 
 motion in that particular; but they may make a differ- 
 
PROPELLING FORCE. 77 
 
 -ent number of vibrations in completing their orbital 
 journey. Inasmuch as they are composed of a combin- 
 ation of elements the zodiacal affinites of Jupiter may 
 be very different from those of the earth. The planets 
 have another motion which produce an elongation of 
 their orbits, which motion I also explain by zodiacal 
 causes. Some of the planets have a stronger affinity 
 for a zodiacal division than others do; consequently 
 they are carried further in one direction, which cause 
 their orbits to be elongated. If all the divisions of the 
 zodiac possessed the same magnetic influence over the 
 planets, they would all revolve in a perfect circle about 
 the sun; but instead of that they each follow r elliptical 
 orbits. Stranger yet is the fact that no two of them 
 ■elongate toward the same point in space, as the follow- 
 ing cut will show: 
 
 The orbit of the planet Mercury elongates towards 
 the division Sagittarius. Uranus elongates towards 
 Aries, Saturn toward Capricornus, while the Earth 
 elongates towards Scorpio. Thus it can be seen that 
 none of the planets have a circular path. The 
 explanation of these laws by the zodiac is the only 
 explanation for the phenomena. I have not yet reach- 
 ed an explanation for the motion of the earth upon its 
 axis, but I have lately developed a hypothesis which 
 I will present to the reader in its imperfections, hop- 
 ing to give it more time and attention in the not dis- 
 tant future, and have it ready for the next edition of 
 Stellar Dust. 
 
 Th e magnetic needle is said to become unsettled 
 when it reaches a point thirty miles south of the equator. 
 
78 
 
 PROPELLING FORCE. 
 
 The cause of the peculiar behavior of the needle I at- 
 tribute to the fact that being the magnetic center of 
 the earth all of the zodiacal gases are received in that 
 belt and pass into the earth, where approaching from 
 opposite directions they meet and cause a whirl of 
 forces which keeps the world in a regular motion on 
 its axis; then passing to the north and south, they flow 
 towards the poles, thus causing an electrical current 
 to continually flow in those directions, and in escaping 
 at the north they produce the northern lights. I am 
 unable be account for the revolution of the earth upon 
 its axis in any other way. Hence I offer the above 
 hypothesis. 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 
 
 The heavenly bodies are so situated, and chemical- 
 ly constructed, that they constitute two separate and 
 distinct forces, which I will denominate constitutional 
 and immutable laws, for the reason that one is para- 
 mount to the other, and that the former limits the 
 operation of the latter in the execution of all their 
 work in nature. 
 
 The constitutional laws are executed by the divi- 
 sions of the zodiacal belt, and since they never change 
 their relative positions to one another their individual 
 effect upon the earth is always the same. However, an 
 apparent change is sometimes produced, but which is 
 caused by the intervention of the mutable or planetary 
 aws. The twelve chapters of the constitutional laws, 
 found in the great book of nature, are named as fol- 
 lows: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, 
 Lbira, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, 
 and Pisces. Each of the foregoing divisions execute a 
 separate and distinct law from the other. 
 
 The constitutional are the inexorable laws of na- 
 ture from which there is no appeal. They produce all 
 species of life that now is, ever was, or ever will be, on 
 this globe; for life of an}^ kind cannot exist independ- 
 ent of these mighty forces, and when they are once 
 
80 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS 
 
 withdrawn then all life is doomed. They give size to 
 body, form to man and species to all life. They also 
 produce planetary motion and hold the world in its 
 present position, and sustain their poles in their pres- 
 ent positions relative to the north star and the south- 
 ern cross. They also produce the zodiacal and equi- 
 torial aspects, the same today that they did at the 
 beginning of the earth's existence, and have continued 
 to perform the same duty since the cycles of earth's 
 time began to run. They cause the earth to complete 
 her diurnal revolution in 24 hours 48 min. 48 s., and 
 speeds her in her course about the sun. They bring 
 the joy of spring, the golden harvest of summer, the 
 fruit of fall, and the hoary cloak of winter. They 
 are the all-prevailing forces of the universe. 
 
 These laws doubtless originated long prior to the 
 earth, or while it was in a gaseous state, and they 
 have continued to rule and reign over it since that 
 time down to the present moment, and moreover, they 
 will continue to exercise that unrelenting authority 
 over her long after man has any use for her support 
 or protection. The earth will die by a slow process of 
 decay. It will first lose its attraction for stellar 
 gases in part, when they will slowly pass off into 
 space nevermore to return. Then a loss of vitality 
 will be followed by old age and sterility. In fact the 
 process is imperceptibly going on at this time. The 
 water is gradually departing from the earth; animals 
 are becoming less hardy than former, while many spe- 
 cies have become extinct, doubtless for the want o 
 
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 81 
 
 food containing a sufficiency of the necessary ingre- 
 dients to give nourishment to their particular brains. 
 This is the cause in part while the climatic changes 
 have also had the effect to shorten life in the less 
 hardy animals. The weaker go first, and finally 
 others disappear. It is not a law of the survival of 
 the fittest that protects and prolongs life in certain 
 species. But it is the vital forces which impart to 
 them strength and endurance, sufficient to withstand 
 the climatic changes. 
 
 The carniverous will survive longer than the her- 
 biverous animals, and will linger about the fishing 
 places until the means of sustenance has disappeared 
 from the face of the earth in the form of food and 
 pure air. Then Byron's tableau will be on the scene: 
 " Men will linger about their camp fires, the meager 
 will by the meager be devoured." Except the water 
 animals man will be perhaps the last to leave the 
 dreary waste of lifeless matter which, like the moon, 
 will swing its huge bulk through cold trackless space 
 for an eternity of time, carrying with it the ruins of 
 mighty nations, the crumbling thrones of once happy 
 queens, the sepulcher of kings and cruel monarchs, 
 and the white bones of departed greatness. 
 
 But, dear reader, don't be frightened for fear you 
 will miss your Christmas dinner, because of all life 
 coming suddenly to an end; for there is not the least 
 danger of such an event taking place. If you meet 
 with no accident, your health remains good, and 
 you have a dollar to spare, you can have your Xmas 
 
82 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS. 
 
 dinner served in good form, even according to the Queen's 
 taste and you can enjey it without fear of molestation, 
 because of the wrath of nature reeking vengance on 
 this cold, cruel earth. When it does come to an end 
 it will be after a process of disintegration. In creating 
 and destroying worlds, nature never gets in a hurry. 
 She shakes up old mother earth occasionally to remind 
 man of her mighty forces; but not because she is weary 
 of supporting her children, and desires to shake them 
 off, or to destroy the marvelous work of her creation. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 HOROSCOPE OF CHARLES DARWIN, 
 
 Mr. Darwin was born at the rising of Uranus in 
 the sign Scorpio. When Mercury was casting a trine 
 aspect to that planet, and also w r hen the sun and Mars 
 were in trine to each other. Uranus in Scorpio made 
 Mr. Darwin an independent, original man, despising 
 the beaten track of " beliefs." Mercury in trine to 
 Uranus also made him original and intuitive, and 
 gave him a brilliant, scientific imagination. The sun 
 and Mars in friendly aspect to each other gave him 
 great mental and physical endurance. 
 
 The foregoing influences made Mr. Darwin what 
 he was in magnetic force and mental powers. He was 
 a bold, progressive, original, intuitive man, such an 
 one as is numbered by the sands of the centuries. 
 But, his circumstances, and not his ability, gave him 
 fame. Had he been born of humble parentage, he 
 would have developed into one of the greatest cranks 
 the world ever knew. There is but little in his horos- 
 cope, except his great ability to give him name and 
 fame, and since his mind was carried off in such a 
 strange direction, his progressive ideas would have 
 been ridiculed and laughed to scorn. But, being 
 backed up by an ample fortune to support him in all 
 of his researches, which were many, arduous and tedi- 
 
84 DARWIN'S HOROSCOPE. 
 
 ous, he compelled attention. He was independent of 
 the world, and when he got his ideas in book-form,, 
 they were found to be too searching to be laughed at, 
 too profound to be ignored, and too deep for the ordi- 
 nary mind to grasp, which place this great man above 
 and beyond the reach of all. But, without the means 
 to help himself, he would have been considered a 
 dreamer or a wild, visionary schemer. 
 
 His mind did not run to money-getting; it was 
 scientific, deeply profound and penetrating to the ex- 
 treme degree. But for wealth he would have lived in 
 obscurity, died in poverty, and his half-fledged ideas 
 would have fluttered out of existence at his departure; 
 but with it he rose to the crest of the billows of ap- 
 plause, and the world bowed to his desire, not wholly 
 because his theories were incontrovertible, but because 
 he was able to stand alone in the giant strength of 
 his manhood, in defiance of the opinions of the Chris- 
 tian world, in defence of what he considered to be 
 scientific and right. In poverty he would have done 
 the same thing, but to less purpose, for which reason 
 I place this man in the front ranks of the greatest 
 men the world ever produced. 
 
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CHAPTER XL 
 
 ABE0GENES13 OR SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 
 
 The point has now been reached which involves 
 the question of spontaneous production, or as Huxley 
 defines it, life out of not living matter, which is a mis- 
 nomer, or how nature produced the first pair. All of 
 the necessary conditions for the production of life 
 having been explained, except sexes, which will re- 
 ceive attention further on. 
 
 First it will be necessary to locate nature's incu- 
 bations which created the first life. 
 
 As the eastern hemisphere w r as, or is supposed by 
 some, to have been inhabited before the western world 
 w 7 as populated, it is presumably true that animal life 
 began its existance in the old world, which, however, 
 is only a presumption; for it is more than likely that 
 life was created at every point around the entire globe 
 at or near the same time. 
 
 On all islands of any extent have been found hu- 
 man forms, and each tribe differing in a small degree 
 from the other. The difference, however, is more 
 noticeable in the intellectual and facial than in the 
 physical development, which is evidence that they did 
 not spring fiom a common parent, but were produced 
 under slightly different stellar forces, which would 
 account for their intellectual difference. 
 
 The earth's surface having undergone so many 
 changes since the first crust was formed, it is quite 
 
86 A3EQGEME3I3 
 
 impossible to tell just when life made its debut on the 
 earth, nor how long the conditions lasted necessary to 
 produce the higher forms of life. But presuming that 
 no radical change has taken place on the earth's sur- 
 face since nature began to produce life, it will be safe 
 to locate the original birth-place of man on the East 
 India Islands. Moses to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 However, there is no special reason why life should 
 not have originated in, or near, the Mediterranean Sea, 
 as well as in mid-ocean, except that the position of 
 the former point is less favorable for the reception of 
 the zodiacal forces than is the latter place, it being 
 low, moist and well protected, fitted it for the require- 
 ments of nature in her work of producing life. 
 Owing to its suitability, it has been selected as the 
 most probable point on the earth if only one was 
 chosen for the beginning of life. Furthermore, it has 
 been located directly on the equator, and under the 
 ecliptic, where the electrical currents from the zodia- 
 cal belt play with more energy than at any other 
 point in higher or lower latitudes, which increases 
 its adaptability for the purpose. 
 
 Here originated the primordial germ, and here 
 vast fields of protoplasm were formed by nature's 
 subtle forces. Protoplasm, like other matter, appeared 
 on the earth by a gradual process of growth. Its be- 
 ginning was the beginning of all physical life, regard- 
 less of what may be said of atomical life. It may be 
 doubtful logic to assert that there exists an atomical 
 life possessing intelligence, nevertheless there is some 
 
SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 87 
 
 reason for such a view. However, I would hesitate to 
 affirm that the president of a club of atomical char- 
 acters called a meeting and proposed to organize an 
 animal compact for the purpose of furthering their 
 individual interests, and thus created life. 
 
 But we cannot follow all the way down the scale 
 of life, from man to the monad, or atom, and thus 
 learn all of the eccentricities of the lowest possible 
 form of life. Neither can we begin at the atoms and 
 trace out all of their peculiar combinations up to 
 man, and, therefore, cannot know all of the facts con- 
 nected with their mysterious habits — their likes, dis- 
 likes and social and business customs. 
 
 It is not safe to say that man is the only intelli- 
 gent animal on the earth, since it might be an un- 
 pleasant task to prove it. Then, if we accord intelli- 
 gence to animals one step lower in the scale than man, 
 it will be a difficult matter to stop at any point short 
 of the atom. However, I can see nothing unreason- 
 able in taking that view of the matter, since human 
 intelligence is the result of a closer association of in- 
 dividual atoms of matter than when in their gaseous 
 state. 
 
 I confess that it would be a difficult task to ascer- 
 tain the degree of intelligence possessed by a single 
 atom, or why one should possess more intelligence 
 than another; but doubtless they do, as the result of 
 their combinations will testify. Twenty, nor even 
 fifty billions of inanimate atoms could not under any 
 condition produce a live brain; but that number of live 
 
88 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 
 
 atoms could, under certain conditions, produce life 
 and a degree of intelligence; but because a specific com- 
 bination of atoms do manifest intelligence, it does not 
 necessarily follow that all combinations of gases pro- 
 duce like results. The combination which enters in- 
 to the construction of the brain is the only mind-pro- 
 ducing matter man knows anything about; however, 
 many more may exist. 
 
 Flesh, bone, wood and stone are composed of 
 gases, but it can scarcely be understood that they 
 possess intelligence; however, I have heard intelligent 
 men defend the position that adhesion is a manifesta- 
 tion of intelligence, and however hard to prove, there is 
 room for such a view, if the reasoning is carried to the 
 extreme limit. The force which holds an iron plate to- 
 gether is claimed by the advocates of this idea to be an 
 intelligent one, but when that plate is broken to 
 pieces and ground to dust, then that force is apparently 
 lost, and the supposed intelligence is not acute enough 
 to reunite the scattered particles and hold them to- 
 gether as before without assistance, but if that assist- 
 ance is rendered by reducing them to a molten condi- 
 tion, then the molecules of liquid matter, with an ap- 
 parent intelligence will rush into each other's embrace; 
 and, finally, when cooled, reunite as before in forming 
 a solid iron plate, in which condition they will remain 
 until separated by a force greater than their own. 
 
 When heated the molecules of liquid matter become 
 active, and manifest an active intelligence, but when 
 cooled, they can only manifest a passive intelligence, if it 
 
SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 89 
 
 can be called intelligence at all. The clod of clay when 
 dry is passive, but when it is moistened it manifests 
 an active intelligence by dissolving. A ball of wet cl ay 
 will shrink when drying, but why the molecules will 
 cling to each other, and move toward the center and 
 crowd closer together, is not clearly known. 
 
 By this process of reasoning it is possible to grant 
 intelligence to all matter, but I prefer to draw the 
 line of distinction between animate and inanimate 
 intelligence in all physical matter. 
 
 Vegetable life manifests a greater degree ofintel* 
 ligence, than does the mineral kingdom, but I much 
 prefer to recognize the force in the mineral kingdom as 
 attraction undefined, and that of vegetable instinct, 
 for I think the vegetation acts many times instinctively 
 but not intelligibly — flowers following the sun; the in- 
 terchange of pollen; tbe growth of one plant on an- 
 other, as the licorice root, or plant instinctively 
 grows on the limbs of forest trees, and accord to all 
 animal life however minute in form intelligence unde- 
 fined because there are many degrees of each which 
 require special definition. But these are unimportant 
 technicalities which I shall not discuss just here. 
 
 But brain life and human intelligence with its 
 many degrees of power are before us, but the exact modus 
 operandi pursued by nature in organizing matter into 
 intellectual forces may never be known for the reason 
 that the atoms themselves of which the respective brains 
 are composed are too unfamiliar with man to be fully 
 comprehended by him. It is plain, however, that 
 
90 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 
 
 nature executes her work by force, and that all of her 
 products are ingeniously, systematically and scienti- 
 fically produced. If she works by force, there must be 
 a law back of it to impart energy to matter and thus 
 give it executive power. 
 
 However wise and learnedly men may talk of nat- 
 ural laws, they must necessarily have a very poor con- 
 ception of them until they are able to define them; at 
 least they must presume to understand them and be 
 able to define them, according to their presumption. To 
 say that a law exists, without being able to define it, 
 is talking at random, even if the law does exist, since 
 no one can intelligently converse on a natural law, or 
 any other subject, without first understanding it. So, 
 before going further in the discussion of this question, 
 I will define natural law as I understand it to be, and 
 leave it to the reader for his candid consideration. 
 But before definining natural law, I will draw a com- 
 parison between it and civil law to show their simil- 
 arity. 
 
 Civil Law. — The printed code is only an expres- 
 sion of organized force, existing in the people and it 
 shows to what extent that force may be executed in 
 maintaining justice and order in society by those 
 delegated to carry it into effect. 
 
 The highest officers receive their executive powers 
 from the people. The subordinate officers usually 
 receive their instructfon from their superior officers, 
 notwithstanding the fact that both are responsible to 
 the people whom they serve. Thus, in civil l^w we 
 
SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 91 
 
 have both principal and subordinate officers. Officers 
 with their prescribed duties before them are powerless 
 to act, as officers since they must conform to the letter 
 of the law. Law may exist and the officers may be 
 clothed with full power to act, but a stranger unfam- 
 liar with the custom of the country might be pres- 
 ent and not know that either existed, for until an in- 
 dividual oversteps the bounds of his legal rights, the 
 officers cannot interfere with him. Therefore, both law 
 and officers must remain as though they did not exist. 
 Again, an officer might be in a country, in which 
 he had no jurisdiction; in that case he would be power- 
 less to act in the capacity of an officer. Thus civil law 
 prescribes the legal rights of a citizen regardless of its 
 source, whether derived from a republic, monarchal, 
 or tribal government, for in all cases the law resides 
 in the people and not in the books. 
 
 Natural Law. — Natural law is not altogether dis- 
 similar to civil law, though civil law has nothing to 
 do with natural law. But it is amusing to note how 
 readily and perfectly man conforms to the force of 
 natural laws in every department of life. Civil law, 
 so far as can be known, is framed in exact conformity 
 to natural law. In nature we find both law and offi- 
 cers the same as in civil governments. The fountain 
 or forge of force whence originated natural law, is un- 
 known. It is too subtle and remote for man's mental 
 grasp, consequently it cannot be fully understood. 
 Not being able to comprehend the great first cause, we 
 are compelled to accept the second and third as agents 
 
92 SPONTANEOUS PRODUCTION. 
 
 or officers of the first, and deal with them according 
 to the light we have. Nature is a wonderful organ- 
 izer. She has all of her atomical forces thoroughly 
 under the control of the heavenly bodies, which are 
 the superior officers, and which receive their forces or 
 authority from the great first cause. The gases are 
 the subordinate officers and are directed in their work 
 by the heavenly bodies, though both, like civil officers, 
 receive their power from the first cause. Without 
 organization there could be no life, since individual 
 atoms of themselves have no executive power or intel- 
 lectual selection, but are as much under the control of 
 the heavenly bodies as a soldier is under the control 
 of his commanding officer. Each atom works in the 
 ranks assigned to it, and is ever ready to execute its 
 work when authorized so to do, or when conditions are 
 favorable for its operation; but, like a civil officer, it 
 may not always have jurisdiction. In that case they 
 must remain in a passive state, in which condition 
 their existence might not be known. The proof is 
 seen in the following facts: 
 
 The laws which created the mammoth, mastodon, 
 and the aepyornis, the bird that laid an egg three feet 
 long, exist the same today as they were thousands of 
 years ago; but those quadrupeds and fowls have dis- 
 appeared from the face of the earth, and no new ones 
 are being created, for the laws which produced them 
 are in a passive state, because the earth is cool, and 
 not because the laws themselves have changed. They 
 simply have no jurisdiction. 
 
 The creative laws then are the unknown, but 
 organized forces of nature, innate in atoms of 
 matter, but directed in the execution of their 
 work by the earth and the celestial bodies. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 INCUBATING. 
 
 Before proceeding further with the explanation of 
 spontaneous generation, or nature's mode of produc- 
 tion, perhaps it will be just as well to review the pa- 
 tent process of incubation, which was nature's original 
 plan of production, only conducted on a somewhat 
 larger scale, which will make the subject of spontane- 
 ous generation plainer to many, if not clearer to all of 
 the readers of this volume. 
 
 But before incubating, let us inquire into the na- 
 ture of the thing to be incubated. We see the eggs go 
 into the mysterious box, there to remain a given period, 
 during which time we watch them closely, and occa- 
 sionally examine one, and wait till life appears in an- 
 other. Still nothing is learned of how the atoms were 
 induced to unite in producing the animated thing. 
 Dr. Dalton, in his famous work on physiology, ex- 
 plains, so far as he could, the chemical constituents of 
 the egg. He informed his readers that it is composed 
 of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen, and that 
 during incubation it takes on more oxygen and throws 
 off carbonic gas. The egg absorbs nearly two per cent 
 of its own weight of oxygen, while the quantity of car- 
 bonic acid, thrown off at the same time, amounts to no 
 less than 24 grains, the process going on during incu- 
 
94 INCUBATION. 
 
 bation. He further adds that it is the same in eggs as 
 breathing is in animals. 
 
 The foregoing explanation being true, plainly 
 shows that the animating elements necessary to pro- 
 duce life come from the outside of the shell, which is 
 further evidenced by the fact that eggs oiled before go- 
 ing into the incubator will not hatch, because the 
 pores of the shell are closed, and thus exclude the 
 necessary gases from entering the egg. But the 
 learned doctor leaves his students in the shadows con- 
 cerning the chemical construction of the egg, or how 
 it proceeds to organize life. From a chemical analysis 
 it cannot be learned whether the egg in question was 
 that of a duck, turkey or chicken. The chemists can 
 find no beak-forms nor foot-prints on the yellow island 
 floating in that chrystalline sea to reveal the form or 
 character of its progenitors. Neither can there be 
 found anything which will reveal the spark of life that 
 is supposed to slumber in that masked substance, 
 nor explain the cause of its differentiation. To the 
 chemist the egg is a deep mystery. 
 
 Then, if from a chemical analysis, little can be 
 learned of the causes which produced the life within 
 the egg, nor lead to the discovery of its hidden mys- 
 teries, it will be necessary to proceed by mental 
 analysis in order to reach any definite conclusion con- 
 cerning the matter; for reasons must reign where 
 demonstrations fail. 
 
 In order to learn the process of incubation it is 
 necessary to understand the organization of its chem- 
 
INCUBATION. 95 
 
 ical constituents; for the egg is an organized body; but 
 it contains no life within its walls any more than un- 
 ignited wood contains fire; but the elements are there 
 which under proper conditions will produce life in the 
 one or fire in the other. The egg is only a bit of pro- 
 toplasm, not altogether unlike the jelly-like substance 
 which produced the original progenitors; the chemical 
 elements of which the egg is composed are uot a homo- 
 geneous mixture, as they appear to be. but they are 
 perfectly organized in every part, and possessing a 
 given number of nuclei, but which are too subtle in 
 their relations to each other for their individuality to 
 be discovered by any process of analysis yet known 
 to chemists; nevertheless, they exist. 
 
 Now, brother scientists, don't dispute that fact; 
 for you know that the brain is composed of chemical 
 divisions, called phrenological organs; yet many scien- 
 tific men dispute phrenology because they cannot 
 prove the mental divisions of the brain by chemical 
 analysis. Nevertheless, the most ignorant as well as 
 the most learned can testify to the truth of phrenol- 
 ology, notwithstanding Dr. Dalton says that the brain 
 is a unit. Though we have no reason for denying that 
 different parts of the brain may be occupied by dif- 
 ferent intellectual faculties, there is no direct evidence 
 which would show this to be the case. The layers of 
 gray matter in each principal portion of the brain is 
 continuous throughout. There is no anatomical di- 
 vision or limit between the different parts, like those 
 between the different ganglia in the other portions of 
 
96 INCUBATION. 
 
 the nervous system. Consequently such divisions of 
 the cerebrum and cerebellum must be altogether arbi- 
 trary in character and not dependent on any anatom- 
 ical basis. If the physical divisions are not observ- 
 able in the brain, they are on the skull, and the chem- 
 ical action of the respective chemical divisions produced 
 them. Then it illy becomes a chemist or any man 
 of science to dispute a subtle point in chemistry, when 
 a glaring fact of like nature defies his skill. The egg 
 contains three distinct physical parts as seen by the 
 eye. which are, first, the cicatricula, the little white 
 speck which is always seen in eggs, and which is the 
 germ corresponding to the ovum of the mammal. Sec- 
 ond, the yellow center. Third, the white albumen 
 substance which surrounds it. In their chemical 
 structure these parts in no wise differ from the orignal 
 protoplasm. The egg is a physical growth, contain- 
 ing no active or visible life. The cicatricula is the 
 germ, and contains all of the necessary elements for 
 quickening. The other parts are the food necessary to 
 sustain the germ in the process of its growth. The 
 egg thus organized will produce life. 
 
 If the egg is an organized body some force organ- 
 ized it, and that is the agent scientists have long been 
 looking for. The following is my solution for the 
 problem. The brain of the fowl, like all other brains, 
 is composed of chemical divisions, or brain centers, 
 each of which snpplies its part of the life essence to 
 the egg, while it is forming in the fowl. Thus each 
 brain center creates in the egg a chemical nucleus cor- 
 
INCUBATION. 97 
 
 responding to its own center. Each nucleus thus cre- 
 ated in the egg is a center and magnet of attraction, 
 and is complete and perfect in its chemical structure, 
 after the male forces are received; after which they 
 are locked up in the shell to protect them for future 
 use. The egg receives its incubating forces from the 
 brain of the fowl, and the brain receives its life essence 
 directly from the zodiacal divisfon of the heavens in a 
 pure state, by the process of inhalation and attraction. 
 They are inhaled into the lungs when the blood re- 
 ceives w r hat it needs and carries it to the brain, when 
 the brain attracts its affinities and utilizes them in 
 creating a life essence. The brain will not attract 
 from the blood what it does not need for that purpose, 
 therefore the blood will not attract from the atmos- 
 pheric air in the lungs that which the brain does not 
 need, therefore it can not impart to the egg elements 
 foreign to its chemical divisions. Thus each brain 
 center creates in the egg a chemical nucleus corres- 
 ponding to its own center. Each division thus created 
 in the germ is a magnet, which as soon as the neces- 
 sary conditions are supplied, is ready to begin the 
 work of organizing its part of the animal body. 
 
 The brain of the male operates the same as that 
 of the female, in producing his fecundating forces; 
 when the egg receives the male principle, every center 
 in it becomes fertilized. Thus it can be seen that the 
 egg can not possess a greater nor a less number of cen- 
 ters than is possessed by the brain of the fowl which 
 produced it; neither can the male bird produce fecun- 
 
98 INCUBATION. 
 
 dating forces to accommodate a greater nor a less 
 number of centers than those of the fowl belonging to 
 his own species, for his elements must correspond iden- 
 tically with those of the egg, or they will not unite. 
 
 If from any cause either of the divisions of the 
 female brain fails to supply a sufficiency of its forces 
 to perfect its nucleus in the egg, that division will not 
 receive the male elements, consequently the egg will 
 not incubate. The male principle, too, might be de- 
 fective in some particular, which would destroy its 
 effect, therefore the egg would not fertilize when com- 
 ing in contact with the spermatazoa, consequently it 
 would not attract stellar gases; but if the egg is per- 
 fect in all its parts then it will hatch. 
 
 The brains of fowls belonging to different species 
 slightly vary in their chemical structure, consequently 
 in their chemical affinities, and, therefore, will only 
 receive the combination of gases peculiar to them- 
 selves, which alone will produce forms characteristic 
 of their own. 
 
 The turkey has a head adorned to correspond with 
 its genus; consequently it must have a brain capable 
 of throwing out a nerve branch to create its head gear, 
 and also to produce in its egg the chemical centers 
 necessary to produce the brain. What is true of one 
 is true of all other fowls. 
 
 Now we understand the nature of the thing to be 
 incubated. It is, therefore, in order to explain the 
 process of its development. 
 
 Process. — At one time it was generally supposed 
 that eggs must be covered by a fowl, and thus receive 
 
INCUBATION. 99 
 
 animal heat, in order to induce them to hatch. But 
 science laid that idea gently aside by demonstrating 
 with a heated oven the fact that animal heat is not 
 necessary to produce incubation. The egg in its per- 
 fect form is now placed into the incubator properly 
 prepared to receive it. The heat warms it through, 
 when the process of attraction begins and develop- 
 ment commences where it left off. 
 
 The the nuclei in the egg was formed in the 
 fowl, by the zodiacal laws, and now the same forces 
 continue their work of development. As the world 
 revolved on its axis, each nucleus attracted in their 
 regular order, until the brain was formed. One branch 
 developes the heart, another the lungs, and still an- 
 other the kidneys, and so on, till the entire organism 
 is perfected, at which juncture the magnets in the egg 
 become consumed and must be supplied otherwise, in 
 order to continue the growth. 
 
 At this point of development the chick grows 
 hungry and, in pecking for food, breaks through its 
 shell. The oxygen rushes in and invigorates the new 
 life, when it struggles to free itself from its covering, 
 to begin a new form of existence. It now takes food, 
 and new magnets are formed in the blood, which at- 
 tract their stellar affinities, and life continues. 
 Nerves, thrown out from the brain, form every part of 
 the body and develop every pecularity of the fowl. 
 The brain of the chick sends out nerve branches cor- 
 responding to the number of nuclei it possesses. The 
 duck sends out nerve branches corresponding to the 
 
100 INCUBATION. 
 
 nuclei it posseses. The former has five toes and a 
 round beak. The latter has web-feet and a fiat 
 beak. The duck does not have nerves in its beak be- 
 cause the beak is flat, but because the nerves grew and 
 formed it that w T ay. For the same reason it has webs 
 between its toes. Species will not cross; therefore, 
 their differences must alway remain the same. 
 
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CHAPTER XII. 
 PROTOPLASn 
 
 I will now explain the process of creating physical 
 life, which began with the protoplasm. 
 
 First, let the reader get the right understanding of 
 its nature, before he tries to comprehend the results of 
 its growth. Then the whole lesson will be clear and 
 comprehensible. Protoplasm, scientific men tell us, is 
 composed of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and nitrogen; 
 but I am of the opinion that it contains many more 
 than four elements. In fact, I know that the original 
 protoplasm did, because life came from the proto- 
 plasm, and human life contains many more than four 
 elements. When manufactured in the laboratory of 
 the chemist it may contain only four gases, but per- 
 fectly developed protoplasm, capable of producing 
 human life, contains no less number than twelve dif- 
 ferent chemical elements. The egg of the fowl is 
 known to contain ten or more elements. Protoplasm 
 from which evolved the human body, could not con- 
 tain a less number of gases than the goose egg and 
 produce a higher form of life than the goose. 
 
 In the National Museum there are on exhibition 
 vessels containing the following named ingredients 
 which are found in the human body of the average 
 man, w T ho weighs 154 lbs. A large glass jar holds the 
 
102 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 ninety-six pounds of water which his body contains. 
 In other receptacles are nine pounds of white of egg, a 
 little less than ten pounds of pure glue, thirty-four and 
 one-half pounds of fat, eight and one-quarter pounds 
 of phosphate of lime, one pound of carbonate of lime, 
 three ounces of sugar and starch, seven ounces of fluor- 
 ine of calcium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesia 
 and a little ordinal y table salt. 
 
 Divided up into his primary chemical elements 
 the same man is found to contain ninety-seven pounds 
 of oxygen, enough to take up, under ordinary atmos- 
 pheric pressure, the space of a room ten feet long, ten 
 feet wide and ten feet high. His body also holds fif- 
 teen pounds of hj'drogen, which, under the same con- 
 ditions, would occupy somewdiat more than two such 
 rooms as that described. To these must be added 
 three pounds and thirteen ounces of nitrogen. The 
 carbon in the corpus of the individual referred to is 
 represented by a foot cubic of coal. It ought to be a 
 diamond of the same size, because that stone is pure 
 carbon, but the National Museum has not such a one 
 in its possession. A row of bottles contain the other 
 elements going to make up a man. These are four 
 ounces of chlorine, three and one-half ounces of 
 fluorine, eight ounces of phosphorus, three and one- 
 half ounces of brimstone, two and one-half ounces of 
 sodium, two and one-half ounces of potassium, one- 
 tenth of an ounce of iron, two ounces of magnesium 
 and three pounds and thirteen ounces of calcium. 
 
 Calcium, at present market rates, is w r orth $300 an 
 ounce, so that the amount of it contained in one ordin- 
 
PROTOPLASM. 103 
 
 ary human body, has a money value of $18,300. Few 
 of our fellow-citizens realize that they are worth so 
 much intrinsically. What makes this metal so costly, 
 is the difficulty of separating it from the elements with 
 which it is found combined in nature. 
 
 It seems odd to know that four of the constituents 
 of the human body will take fire by spontaneous com- 
 bustion. Everybody knows how quickly phosphorus 
 will do that when dry. A scrap of sodium, on being 
 thrown into hot water or upon ice, will burst into a 
 rosy flame. Potassium acts similarity; but w r ith 
 greater violence. On touching water it flames up, and 
 at length explodes, throwing a mountain of sparks in- 
 to the air. Magnesium, which is used in the form of 
 powder for flashlights by photographers, is so readily 
 and fiercely combustible that it has to be kept tightly 
 corked in bottles. 
 
 The growth of the protoplasm is necessary in 
 order to accumulate the required combination of ele- 
 ments to produce life; for until the necessary number 
 in sufficient quantities are gathered together in a single 
 body, nature cannot differentiate any form of life; 
 hence the necessity for protoplasm. 
 
 It is generally supposed that protoplasm grew 
 from its own volition, and that from that growth 
 sprang life; but the reverse is the case. It would be 
 just as logical to say the placenta was produced that 
 the child might be created, as to say the protoplasm 
 was produced prior to the germ. The germ of life 
 was formed first, that the protoplasm might be pro- 
 
104 PROTOPLASM 
 
 dueed. As the vital parts of the ^erm were gathering 
 their forces, preparatory to forming organized life, 
 much refuse, crude matter necessarily formed about 
 the germ, to protect it during its growth; hence the 
 production of the protoplasm. 
 
 Protoplasm, like all physical matter, grew from a 
 small beginning, and of course made considerable 
 growth before taking any definite form or manifesting 
 any active life, since that was and is nature's method 
 of producing all forms of life. There must be a cer- 
 tain amount of growth before protoplasm can receive 
 and retain a sufficient quantity of stellar forces to 
 create the object of its growth, however small that 
 object may be. Show to a man who has never seen a 
 walnut, pear, or an ear of corn, and ask him how they 
 came into existence. If he knew nothing about them 
 he would be at a loss to give any explanation for their 
 growth. If he was from a country that produced only 
 toad-stools, potatoes and pumpkins, he would very 
 naturally conclude that the ear of corn was pushed up 
 through the soil, like a toad-stool, or grew on a vine, 
 like a pumpkin. If, however, he was a philosopher he 
 would know that a vegetable growth of some kind was 
 produced before the corn could grow; but he could not 
 describe the form of the growth, the size of the plant, 
 nor the texture of the stalk. 
 
 In the animal kingdom the same law exists. A 
 growth of some kind was necessary before animal life 
 could be developed. It came in the form of proto- 
 plasm. It grew a formless thing till it reached a cer- 
 
PROTOPLASM. 105 
 
 tain degree of development, when differentiation took 
 place. But now we want to know the character of the 
 life, or the degree of intelligence atoms of matter pos- 
 sess under the necessary conditions, to prompt them 
 to unite in producing the original protoplasm. 
 
 Explanation. — Atoms, like the people which they 
 create, possess strange -characteristics, for they will 
 not all, when under apparently the same conditions, 
 unite in the same way to produce the same effect. 
 Those gases only which possess affinities for each 
 other will affiliate; but whether the virtue of the asso- 
 ciation lies in the peculiar form of the atoms com- 
 posing the body in question, in the affinity of the 
 atoms themselves (if any one knows what that means), 
 or in the degree of intelligence they possess, is yet to 
 be learned. But the latter I maintain to be true. 
 Nevertheless, that intelligence must be directed by 
 some other than the innate force, which atoms possess, 
 before they will embrace each other in producing 
 growth; and that director or directors are no other 
 than the zodiacal and planetary bodies. Protoplasm 
 was not a divine conception, but a mundane produc- 
 tion and manufactured out of stellar dust, and not 
 mundane dust. These gases were induced to unite by 
 the combined efforts of three agents of the earth, as fol- 
 lows: 1st, heat; 2nd, moisture; 3rd, motion. 
 
 Doubtless it never occurred to the reader that the 
 motion of the earth on its axis ever had or now has 
 anything to do with producing and sustaining life; 
 yet, that is one of her most important functions i n 
 
3.06 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 that particular, since the brain can receive gases only 
 when in certain positions relating to division whence 
 they come. Then, in order to occupy all of the posi- 
 tions, the rotation of the earth on its axis is necessary. 
 If the earth had no diurnal motion, protoplasm could 
 not have formed. Consequently higher forms of life 
 could not have been produced originally; neither could 
 they have been reproduced subsequently; nor could 
 life now exist on the globe. Should the earth stop 
 now at high noon, when the sun, the supposed giver of 
 life, is in the mid-heaven in all his glory, all life 
 would soon become extinct; the embrio would die in 
 its mother's womb, even if the mother herself should 
 longer survive, which is not probable, for the reason that 
 the adult depends as much on the zodiacal gases for 
 life as does the embrionic form. Therefore, the motion 
 of the earth on its axis is necessary to the existence of 
 all life. Moisture was necessary to prepare the zodi- 
 acal gases for their union, for gases will not unite in 
 a growth of any sort without it; while the motion of 
 the earth on its axis was necessary to bring any given 
 point on the earth's surface in contact with each and 
 every degree of the zodiacal belt once every twenty- 
 four hours, in order to complete the conditions. 
 
 The perfect protoplasm to all appearances, is a 
 homogeneous mass of matter; but nevertheless, 
 it was as perfectly organized in its chemical structure 
 as is the egg in the shell. On receiving the necessary 
 impulse it grew apace, and finally took form, which 
 afterwards became animated. It was just as easy for 
 
PROTOPLASM. 107 
 
 nature to produce animal life alter protoplasm was 
 created as it now is for her to produce life from the egg 
 after it has been laid. Moreover it v as com- 
 
 patible with nature's laws to produce protoplasm when 
 the earth was at its proper degree of temperature for 
 that purpose as it now is for her to pre i egg in 
 
 the fowl. .It is conceded by ail that the fowl produces 
 the egg within her own organism independently of 
 nature's external laws, but she does not. since she has- 
 no power to reproduce apart from them. She only 
 perpetuates the conditions which the earth possessed at 
 the time of its original ancestors. The egg is only a 
 protoplasm produced by nature through the agency of 
 the fowl, and not by the fowl herself. The nucleus . 
 which forms the brain of the original progenitors 
 is retained by all fowls of like species, subseq- 
 uently reproduced, which enabled nature to repro- 
 duce similar nuclei in the egg of any given fowl. The 
 brain of the fowl, like all other brains, is composed of 
 chemical divisions or brain centers, and each center 
 supplies its essence to the egg. 
 
 Life Forces. — As previously explained, each 30 
 degrees of the Zodiac throws out the combination of 
 gases peculiar to itself and different from the other 
 eleven divisions of that belt, and which form an at- 
 traction to the oarth. Furthermore, each one of the 
 twelve divisions create a separate chemical division in 
 the brain. It further appears that each degree of the 
 specific division supplies a slightly different combina- 
 tion of gases from the other degrees from the 
 
108 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 same division; therefore, when a nucleus begins to form 
 out of the elements belonging to any degree of anj r 
 specific sign: that degree determines the character of 
 the nucleus of the brain subsequently formed, because 
 it determines the combination of gases demanded 
 from the other Zodiacal divisions in producing 
 life. It having affinities peculiar to itself requires 
 certain other elements in order to complete its work. 
 Each degree of the zodiac is different; therefore, ail 
 the elements from the other degrees will not affiliate 
 with any given one. 
 
 The union of the first two atoms which unite to 
 form the first epinucleus was ihe beginning. This 
 epinucleus holds the ruling position in the com-? 
 .pleted nuclius of the brain, which now resides in the 
 protoplasm. Thus the nucleus began at the rising of 
 the twentieth degree of Gemini, then the epinucleus 
 created from the >f that division of the Zodiac 
 
 would hold a commanding influence in the nucleus, 
 and thus control the organization of all the elements 
 subsequently added to it. Should a nucleus form at 
 the 20th degree of Le >, or any other degree ox that or 
 any other division, the brain thus formed would differ 
 from all other brains produced from other degrees of the 
 zodiacal divisions, because each degree has a different 
 affinity from all others, and therefore, would attract 
 other combination of elements to it. The first nucleus 
 is now formed and gathers as it goes As the world re- 
 volves on its axis this epinucleus is carried through 
 the prases from the next division of the heavens — which 
 
PROTOPLASM. 109 
 
 is Cancer. During the time the point on the earth at 
 which the protoplasm is now being formed, is passing 
 through this division, a second epinucleus is being 
 formed and becomes attracted to the first; as these two 
 are being carried through the elements of the succeed- 
 ing division. Leo, another epinuclei is formed and 
 becomes associated with the former one. Again, while 
 the three are being carried through the elements from 
 the next division the fourth nucleus is formed and finds 
 its place in the association of the other centers and 
 thus the process went on; till the earth had made one 
 diurnal revolution, and that point on its surface had 
 passed through all of the elements from each and all 
 of the twelve zodical divisions, and each had complet- 
 ed its epinncleus, and all of them were united to com- 
 plete the perfect working nucleus of life which is com- 
 posed of twelve minute chemical brain centers. 
 
 The process required twenty-four hours for nature 
 to complete her work thus far. Since it requires that 
 length of time for the earth to complete one diurnal 
 revolution. During the next twenty-f our hours, while 
 the earth was revolving, and carrying the nuclius thus 
 formed through the same forces, more off them would 
 added to each nuclei, and thus growth continued. This 
 process was daily repeated until a complete protoplasm 
 or egg was formed and fructified. How long it requir- 
 ed for nature to produce the egg is not known; but at 
 this point new forces entered intethe protoplasm where 
 embriotic life began. Still the process of growth 
 was continued, for the embrio thus formed could 
 
110 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 not further developed without being supplied with 
 the same combination of zodiacal gases as the origin- 
 al. As soon as sufficient brain force was concentrated 
 each brain center threw out a branch of the nervous 
 system, each of which has an individuality of its 
 own. yet. they all worked harmoniously together, 
 in producing the body. The cranial nerves are named 
 as follows: 
 
 1st. Olfactory Xerves serve to convey the special 
 sense of smell to the brain. 
 
 2nd. Optic Nerves produce the eyes, convey 
 vibrations, blight and impart the sense of sight. 
 
 3rd. Auditory supplies vitality to the ear drum 
 and conveys the sound vibration to the brain. 
 
 4th. Motor Occuli helps to control the eyes, teeth, 
 jaw and tongue. 
 
 5th. Pathetieus assists to supply the brain force 
 to the muscles of the eyes. 
 
 6th. Motor Exterminis also performs an oracular 
 function. 
 
 7th. The Fifth pair performs a facial function, and 
 control in part, the jaw, lips and nasal organs. 
 
 8th. Glosso Pharyngeal assists in controling the 
 tongue and mouth. 
 
 9th. Facial Nerves control the action of the face 
 and ears. 
 
 10th. Pneumogastric supports the heart, stomach 
 and liver. 
 
 11th. Spinal Accessory control the muscles which 
 rules the actions of the lung when talking or straining. 
 
 12th. Hypo-glossal assists in controling the tongue. 
 
 As these and the spinal nerves advanced, bones, 
 cords, flesh, and all the internal and vital organs were 
 produced. 
 
PROTOPLASM. Ill 
 
 The heart was formed first to regulate the flow of 
 the blood as soon as it became necessary, for the 
 heart is not a force-pump to produce circulation ; but 
 a regulator to govern it's flow; for circulation began 
 before the heart was formed. 
 
 The blood is composed of atoms which possess 
 force, and so long as new forces are being taken into 
 the blood by inhalation the blood will flow, for force 
 and motion are innate in matter. At the expiration 
 of nine months the life had so far advanced in its de- 
 velopment that it required more nourishment than 
 nature could supply through the circulatory system of 
 its crude mother, therefore it was freed from its proto- 
 plastic parents, to survive or perish as the stars of 
 fate might determine; but as nutricious food was 
 easily obtained in those very productive times, the 
 stars of fate favored them; for life of all kinds sprang 
 spontaneously into existence, upon which the early 
 discoverers of the earth rapaciously fed, flourished 
 and became mighty. The}^ were not so particular 
 then as now, in their. bread and butter regime. They 
 had not yet learned to demand broiled beef-steak for 
 breakfast, a morning cocktail for an appetizer, four 
 courses for dinner, and oysters on the half-shell for 
 supper. For breakfast the}^ probably took mush 
 straight, prepared in the luke-warm elements in the 
 murky marsh. Neither were they so fastidious then 
 in their table etiquette as their fine haired descend- 
 ents are now. Fingers were made before forks, and 
 doubtless were used to fish worms out of the mud, and 
 
112 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 to catch the juicy bug on which to feast before they 
 discovered beef-steak and the methods of preparing it, 
 and the upper and nether stone for grinding grain, as 
 well as the methods of mixing and baking the hoe 
 and the Johnny cake, the unleavened bread and the 
 light loaf, the soda and Carolina biscuits, the French, 
 German and the hot roils; the waffle, buckwheat 
 cakes, fritters. Yankee dough-nuts, etc., etc. 
 
 Species. — Human life new requires ten moons for 
 the zodiacal brain to develop; therefore, it is presum- 
 ably true that it requires exactly that length of time 
 for the protoplasm, after it was fructified, to develop 
 human form. 
 
 Whether the species date from the beginning of 
 the nucleus or not till after its growth and fructifica- 
 tion, by other elements not incorporated in the original 
 protoplasm, is yet unknown; but I am persuaded to 
 think that the moment the nuclei of the protoplasm 
 is completed by the first revolution of the earth on its 
 axis, the specie is determined; for there appears to be 
 no reason for a germ thus begun to change its organi- 
 zation, nor its original combination of elements, since 
 the conditions were ever favorable for the continuation 
 of its growth since it had begun, tor it could receive, 
 without interruption, gases from the same source of 
 supply as that which originated the twelve epinuclei. 
 In fact they could not change, as shown in the devel- 
 opment of the egg of a fowl in which the growth is 
 arrested at the time it is laid, and it may not be 
 resumed for weeks, vet no change occur? in its attrac- 
 
PROTOPLASM. 113 
 
 tive power, nor the result of its incubation, because 
 the conditions favorable to its further development 
 have, for the time being, ceased, does not change iis 
 magnetic force nor cause it to lose its power of attrac- 
 tion for zodiacal gases, for as soon as the necessary 
 conditions by the incubator are restored the process ox 
 development is resumed, and goes on the same as 
 though it had not been arrested. This question might 
 now arise: why are the conditions not changed by the 
 cessation of the development in tt 
 the work ? 
 
 The answer is easy so far as species are concerned, 
 for the same zodiacal laws would take up their work 
 of development just where they left off. and proceed 
 with as much precision in the process of evolution as 
 an old lady would when she resumed her knitting 
 where she left oft a day or week previous. 
 
 The ruling epinucleus would still preside over the 
 development of the chemical center. Then, when heat 
 was applied, and the earth had reached a point at 
 which it could receive the required elements which 
 most likely would be at the degree of rising when the 
 eg c ^ was perfectly formed before it was laid. Here 
 nature would resume her work and proceed as though 
 she had not been interrupted, for which reason I must 
 conclude that species began with the nucleus of the 
 protoplasm. If it did not then the protoplasm might 
 produce any species of life. On the same principle an 
 egg might produce any species of the feathered flock 
 by nature changing the chemical conditions of the e^g 
 
114 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 by adding or withholding at any time one or more of 
 the chemical elements belonging to it, which being 
 true, the species of the fowl would not depend on the 
 character of the egg, but upon the chemical con- 
 stituents of the spermatozao of the male, which sup- 
 plies the fortifying forces. If the egg was a homogen- 
 eous mass of chemical elements the male of any fowl 
 could fertilize the egg of any other fowl, and then 
 reproduce his own or perhaps any other species: there- 
 fore the common hen might produce a guinea, a goslin. 
 or a grouse, and a goose might produce a canary bird 
 or a pewee. a crow or a pelican, or a new species. 
 Consequently, no law or order could be maintained in 
 the production of life; but as the laws now exist the 
 epinucleu^ which are first formed in the egg. as pre- 
 viously described, determines just what the species 
 shall be and plainly show why they continue the same 
 and can not be changed. 
 
 The foregoing rules will hold good in regard to form. 
 but not in regard to intelligence, for the simple reason 
 that the zodiacal laws rule the development of the 
 physical form or species, and. since they never change 
 their relative positions to one another, they may sus- 
 pend at the laying of the egg, and again resume their 
 work of development at any time within a given limit 
 with no inconvenience, delay or confusion of forces. 
 But since the planets rule the growth of the brain, 
 which produces the intellectual faculties, their effect 
 is different at different times, since they are continu- 
 ally changing their relative positions and aspects to 
 
PROTOPLASM. 115 
 
 one another; and. as the planetary brain is produced 
 after birth, it does make a difference when a chick is 
 hatched or a child is born, and the latter in particular. 
 That the epinucleus of a protoplasm, which formed at 
 the rising of a given degree of the zodiacal belt, pro- 
 duced animal form may leave in the mind of thought- 
 ful readers the impression that only 365 species of 
 animal life could be produced, since that is the num- 
 ber of degrees in the zodiacal belt. It will be necessary 
 to explain further. 
 
 The reader must remember that the earth's orbit 
 varies a little in performing its cycle, which requires 
 29 years. This variation from the exact latitude and 
 declination relative to other planets, might change the 
 combination of elements which composed the first 
 epinucleus, and, consequently, the other eleven, and 
 thus produce different species, even under the same 
 longitudinal degree of the zodiac; which being true, 
 would account for the multiplicity of species found 
 on the earth even if there was no other explanation 
 to be given; but, since the temperature of the earth 
 was constantly changing, species may be accounted for 
 otherwise. Different degrees of temperature might, 
 and doubtless did, cause different combinations of 
 gases to unite in forming the various species, since 
 the combinations are not all affected alike by the same 
 degree of temperature. 
 
 The nucleus formed when the earth was at its 
 greatest degree of heat that would produce life. 
 Nature created the largest and most tender animals, 
 
116 PROTOPLASM. 
 
 many of which could not survive the chemical and 
 climatic changes which the earth has since pa 
 through, hence became extinct. As the temperature 
 of the earth ran down during the process of cooling. 
 different on the gases were produced, so that 
 
 many and varied were the nucleus re it 
 
 reached a degree that would produce nothing hh 
 than the insect life. The life-producing period of the 
 world 3 of years, and millions 
 
 of S] n produced, which were unable 
 
 to i yueiitly, their species were lose at 
 
 their death. Strong evidence in favor oi this apparent 
 fact is that there are barren animals among all species; 
 then, if in reproducing nature fails to perfect one of 
 her species, she may have failed to have perfected some 
 of her original creatures. Besides, thousands of species 
 may have been produced, lived for a time, and finally 
 became extinct without leaving any trace of their 
 former existence. 
 
 A very natural supposition is that the interference 
 of the sun's heat would have made the earth too hot 
 to incubate any species of life; but this point is ex- 
 plained when it is remembered that 108 degrees is 
 incubating heat, and that when the earth was at that 
 degree of temperature water would evaporate very 
 rapidly, and thus keep dense clouds in the air. for the 
 clouds would have to become very dense before they 
 would condense for the want of cold currents, which 
 could not exist when the whole surface of the earth 
 was hot. These clouds would obstruct the sun's ravs- 
 
PROTOPLASM. 117 
 
 and prevent them from reaching the earth; but as 
 time rolled on heat grew less, and cold currents were 
 created; clouds condensed and rain fell in toi rents. 
 Thus were the clouds dispelled, while the sun was 
 permitted to pour his violent rays with full force 
 upon the earth which made the days intensely hot 
 and the nights cool, which had the effect to bring the 
 period of life- producing to a close, after which ail 
 animal life must be perpetuated by the sex-process, 
 and incubation for mother earth had passed her change. 
 
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CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 REPRODUCTION. 
 
 In the reproduction of animal life nature works just 
 the same in the human organism as she did when the 
 earth alone supplied the conditions of heat and 
 moisture. Though her apparatus was more crude in 
 all of its appointments, nevertheless results were just 
 the same. 
 
 The beginning of animal life in the animal organ- 
 ism is the union of the first two atoms of matter in 
 forming the first epinucleus of the ovum, for the 
 human ovum is made up of twelve chemical centers, 
 just the same as was the first protoplasm. The ovum 
 represents the germ of the original protoplasm, and is 
 produced by the same zodiacal laws in the same 
 manner as the first protoplasm was organized and 
 assisted by the same conditions only supplied through 
 different channels. The earth supplied the heat then; 
 the mother supplies the necessary temperature now. 
 The only difference is that nature was then creating 
 species, and trying the best she knew to create as 
 many variations from a given form as it was possible 
 for her to produce. All she can now do is to reproduce 
 the surviving species which she created long ago. 
 
 Conception. — Just what the process is which 
 nature employs in the reproduction of animal life 
 can not be known except by the same mode of reason- 
 
REPRODUCTION. 119 
 
 ing as that employed in determining the beginning of 
 original life, since there can be no starting-point 
 after the union of the first two atoms, which began the 
 formation of the ovum; but when that occurred cannot 
 be known. 
 
 If it is true, as Drs. Dalton and Hollock have in- 
 formed their readers, that the ova were formed prior 
 to the birth of the mother the difficulty of the problem 
 increases, since it cannot be known whether the ova 
 began to form the first day, the first week, the first 
 month, or later on in gestation; whether they all be- 
 gan their existence at the same or different times, 
 therefore the facts must remain a secret with nature. 
 
 Doubtless the ova nuclei, be they few or many, 
 are formed prior to birth, and out of zodiacal gases, 
 assisted by the sun and moon for the following reasons: 
 
 1st. The zodiacal brain was formed at that time 
 for which reason, I judge, the ova also were formed 
 at the same time, and partly composed of similar matter 
 and produced in connection with certain brain layers 
 at a certain stage of their development. I further 
 judge that the layers were affected by the sun and 
 moon while the ova were forming. I infer this 
 from the fact that it requires 28 days for the moon to 
 complete her zodiacal revolution, which is the menstrual 
 period. Then, after birth and maturity, the moon rules 
 the disposition of the ova, and since it requires that 
 length of time for the ovum to ripen, it is presum- 
 ably true that the moon is the prime factor in the 
 matter of controling the perfecting of the ova. The 
 
120 REPRODUCTION. 
 
 ovum will not develop only to a certain point without 
 assistance, which I judge must be rendered by planetary 
 forces, and these forces are supplied in the spermatazoa 
 which I also judge to be composed principally of 
 planetary gases, since it is constantly accumulating 
 in the male organs. When the sperm is received the 
 ovum takes on new life, and begins a new series of 
 evolutions. 
 
 2d. The idiotic female will reproduce, though her 
 brain possesses very little of the planetary matter 
 which is evidence that a highly developed zodiacal 
 brain is not necessary to the development of the ova. 
 Thus it appears that nature can create an ovum to a 
 point that will produce life, even when the planetary 
 gases are almost wholly absent from the zodiacal 
 brain of the mother; but developing it to a point 
 which will impregnate does not imply that it is as 
 strong and magnetic as nature can make it. any more 
 than the germinating of a given seed implies that it 
 is as perfect as nature can make seeds. 
 
 Thus it can be seen that there are different degrees 
 of vitality in the germs of all life. If an abundance 
 of planetary matter was necessary to produce 
 ova all intellectual females would produce them 
 highly developed, since it is presumably true that 
 the zodiacal brain during their development con- 
 sume more of the planetary gases than does that of 
 the idiotic mother, because they produce a healthier 
 tronger zodiacal brain in their offspring, and attracts 
 more planetary matter. 
 
REPRODTCTION. 121 
 
 I further judge that after birth the condition of the 
 ovum, when perfectly developed, determines in a meas- 
 ure the power of the brain produced from it, and that 
 the quality and condition of the zodiacal brain of the 
 mother at different periods during its development, 
 determines the perfect or imperfect condition of the 
 ovum formed at the same time. I further judge that 
 a well developed vital ova, to produce its best results, 
 must be quickened by a healthy vital sperm. If the 
 male sperm is deficient in any way the ovum cannot 
 produce its best results, since its full force of attrac- 
 tion is not supplied. •One ovum being more perfectly 
 developed and vitalized than another may account in 
 part for the different degrees of strength and in- 
 telligence found in children of the same parents, for 
 there is a vast difference in them. Some parents pro- 
 duce some good, some bad, some strong, and some 
 weakly and weakminded children. Other parents 
 cannot produce children above the average, while 
 some women cannot produce them at all, which ie 
 evidence that it is not the general strength of the 
 system which gives the reproductive power. 
 
 If the statement made by doctor F. Holleck is 
 true, that the average number of ova possessed by 
 females varies from 15 to 30, that explodes the pre- 
 vailing idea that one ovum escapes each menstrual 
 period. If only 30 ovums exist then less than three 
 years would be sufficient time to dispose of the entire 
 number at the rate of 13 per year. Just where the 
 error lies I cannot inform the reader. Just how and 
 
122 REPRODUCTION. 
 
 at what times the ova are formed may never be 
 known; but doubtless each one is formed during differ- 
 ent periods in gestation, and that each is expelled 
 from the ovaries in the order of its creation, and em- 
 ployed in producing life in the order and in accordance 
 with the law of its development, for doubtless each 
 ovum is developed by a seperate layer of brain matter, 
 and disposed of by the influence of the moon. The 
 strength of the organism of the individual ovum can- 
 not be known only by the force of the planets operating 
 at the time of conception. If the mother conceives un- 
 der benific planetary influences, it is safe to judge that 
 the ovum employed at that time was well organized, 
 healthy and strong; but if she conceives under malific 
 planetary forces, the reverse may be judged. Ova of 
 different vital forces are possessed by all mothers. 
 
 If ovums are not organized previous to conception, 
 then they must depend solely on the spermatic fluid and 
 planetary forces for their organization, and also their 
 condition after birth, which certainly is not the case. 
 
 When the ovum passes from the ovaries to the 
 matrix it is then ripe, and has progressed as far as 
 nature can develop it in the female organs without 
 assistance. If, while yet in the womb, it receives 
 spermatazoa, then new life is infused into its cells, but 
 if the male principle is not supplied the ovum passes 
 out and is dissolved. The ovum is sometimes im- 
 pregnated in the ovaries. If that was always the case 
 it would account for there being only 30 ova. If 
 that was true, then no ovum would be forced from the 
 
REPRODUCTION. 123 
 
 ovaries until impregnated ; consequently, all per- 
 fect ova would produce life ; but from my own 
 knowledge I can dispute that point, for I have 
 known them to escape from both single and married 
 females. 
 
 After conception takes place the organization of 
 the life forces commence in earnest, and the germ now 
 turns to the electrified walls of the womb for zodiacal 
 forces to enable it to resume its development. What 
 the germ demands the heavens supply through the 
 agency of the mother's brain and blood. The womb 
 being connected to the brain by nerve branches, the 
 embrio can receive the brain forces or stellar fluid 
 directly from the brain and blood since it requires 
 both of those agents to gather and supply forces to 
 any and all parts of the body as well as to the womb, 
 which is the reason why disturbing the womb in its 
 work affects the brain and why an abortion sometimes 
 causes death. 
 
 As fast as the earth revolves on its axis, the 
 mother inhales the zodiacal gases, the blood receives 
 them, and the brain absorbs them and sends them 
 over the nerves to the womb, where they are received 
 by the foetus ; thus cell after cell is formed and life 
 advances. 
 
 It is claimed by physicians that the mother's 
 blood does not pass through the walls of the womb to 
 sustain the embrio, but only a clear fluid is then re- 
 ceived by it. Which being true, makes my argument 
 still stronger, since the existing embrio must, like tha 
 
124 REPRODUCTION. 
 
 protoplastic embrio, manufacture its own blood as it 
 is required. The germ from the beginning receives 
 only zodiacal and planetary gases. 
 
 The process of growth in the human body is just 
 the same as that in the egg in the incubator, except, 
 1st. that all of the gases used in the growth of the 
 foetus must first pass into the mother's blood and go 
 to the brain before it can reach the embrio; 2d, that 
 the egg of the fowl supplies all of the necessary fluid 
 for the development of the chick; the cicatricula, or 
 the little white speck, is the germ, which contains all 
 the magnets of attraction, the white and yellow parts 
 are the food, absorbed by the germ in fts growth. 
 Thus the food is stored in the right quantity and 
 quality to supply each division with just what it 
 needs for the magnets to attract the stellar fluids, 
 necessary to develop the chick without waste or 
 overplus. 
 
 The human egg, not being supplied with food in 
 the same manner as that of the fowl, requires a special 
 apparatus for that purpose after generation begins, 
 hence the placenta and its contents. After a time the 
 brain grows strong enough to take on celestial gases 
 in sufficient amount to send out a nervous system. 
 The brain being composed of 12 centers throws out as 
 many bundles of nerves. As they advance in length 
 they build the body and differentiate it into human 
 form. 
 
 Brain is the Root. — The brain of all animals 
 is the first part of the body to develop, and it grows 
 
BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 125 
 
 proportionately large; but I think no reason has yet 
 been given by physiologists for this so-called strange 
 development. The reason I shall assign is as follows: 
 The brain is the root which throws out the branches 
 of the nervous system, which are necessary to construct 
 the physical organism; for without the brain first 
 there can be no differentiation; consequently, no vital 
 organs nor body produced. For the foregoing reasons 
 the brain must grow large that it may store up force 
 in sufficient quantities to supply nerve-growth to pro- 
 duce the organs and the various other parts of the 
 body of the foetus. After the brain had become suffi- 
 ciently developed to have the necessary strength to 
 produce the vital organs the pneumogastric and other 
 nerves were extended the required length for that 
 purpose, at which juncture organs were formed. The 
 heart was formed first, at the lower end of the Cardie 
 Plexus, and the circulation of the blood continued, it 
 having been established before the heart had received 
 the impulse of life; finally other organs were formed, 
 while the embrio continued to grow. After the spinal 
 cord had extended the necessary length, the nerve 
 which it encased protruded, and began the work of 
 forming the vertebra. I think the general under- 
 standing is. according to Moses, that the original 
 frame was constructed, and holes bored in the joints 
 for the nerves to creep through on their way to the 
 extremities, as scientific men tell us, for the purpose 
 of establishing telegraphic communication of the ex- 
 tremities with the brain. While thev answer that 
 
126 BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 
 
 purpose, that was not the design. The nerves were 
 sent out from the brain to construct the body, conse- 
 quently they produced the bones which formed about 
 them in gristly-like substance, but later on ossified, 
 and finally became solid. Then, when the flesh and 
 marrow were removed, the apperture left in the frame 
 appeared as though they were created only to accom- 
 modate the nerves in giving them easy passage to the 
 extremities. 
 
 At the expiration of the allotted period for the 
 development of the vital organs to a point which 
 would enable them to perform the necessary functions 
 of life, unassisted by the mother, the new being was 
 released from its parental prison to continue life in a 
 new form. Thus was life reproduced, simply, system- 
 atically and scientifically, even though man is ''won- 
 derfully and fearfully made." So, I understand* 
 physicians claim that the human embrio is a pari- 
 site, and has no connection with the mother, because 
 it will sometimes form in the ovaries, and fall down 
 inside of the abdomen, and stick to the w T alls, and 
 grow T outside of the womb, which being true, plainly 
 proves that nature does the work through the agency 
 of the mother, and thus creates the child. It is only 
 necessary for the germ to get access to the mother 
 nerves in order to make a growth. It is not perfect, 
 however, for a placenta, out of its natural case, m 
 too rude to supply perfect conditions, hence the im- 
 perfect growth. 
 
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 BRAIN IS THE ROOT. 127 
 
 The Menses themselves are caused by a waste 
 necessarily produced by an unusual effort of the brain 
 in supplying magnetic forces in preparing the germ 
 receptfctbLfor gestation, which, doubtless, is to give the 
 necessary strength to the matrix to do its work well. 
 It is know T n to be highly electrified at this time. And 
 there is no better reason for its condition. The brain 
 not being able to properly magnetize the matrix may, 
 in some cases, be the cause of barreness and the want 
 of the power to retain the embrio through the entire 
 period of gestation, because it has not the power to 
 cling to the w T alls of the womb. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 
 
 The heart, we are told, is a force pump used by 
 nature in driving the blood to all parts of the body, 
 thus producing circulation; but if the criminal law 
 will permit it, and the long-suffering public forgive 
 the offense, I will here record a contrary statement to 
 alleged facts, and subjoin my reasons for disputing 
 the high authority that ha^ handed down from the 
 days of Harvey, such a serious physiological error, for 
 if the truth had long been know r n, the method of treat- 
 ing diseases now might be very different, and perhaps 
 more successful. 
 
 In the first place, the heart of any human being 
 does not possess half the pow r er necessary to force the 
 blood one single time to the extremities of the human 
 body, to say nothing of the pow r er required to keep the 
 blood in motion for even twenty-four hours, without 
 considering a long life-time, it must perform this 
 laborious work without rest or repairs; but if the heart 
 does perform this work there is no evidence to that 
 effect only in the fact that the blood does circulate 
 and the throbbing of the heart and the beating of the 
 pulse are simultaneous; but with this evidence it 
 might be a difficult task for the wisest physiologist in 
 the land to tell w r hether it is the blood passing through 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 129 
 
 the heart that causes it to throb, or the throbbing of 
 the heart that causes the blood to flow, if either is true. 
 
 The former, however, is more reasonable than the 
 latter. There is not a man in all Christendom who 
 would believe that the heart could produce the circu- 
 lation of blood after he had demonstrated the force 
 necessary to be exerted by that organ in performing 
 the work by using a rubber bulb in every way repre- 
 senting the human heart, to force a fluid as thick as 
 the human blood through as many rubber tubes of 
 the same size and lengths as there are arteries and 
 veins in the human body. Again, if the heart does 
 perform this wonderful work, whence does it get its 
 power of perpetual motion. It must be miraculously 
 constructed to perform all this work of itself, with no 
 motive power back of it. I believe there is none ex- 
 plained by physiologists. Then again if it does per- 
 form this work independently, what power stops its 
 operations so suddenly, and thereby produces death 
 in persons who were supposed to be in good health; also 
 what causes the heart to be the only weak organ in 
 some bodies and the only strong organ in other human 
 bodies, since it produces its own force. These are 
 interesting questions to have answered if the following 
 explanations are wanting in truth. 
 
 I believe, however, that the physiologists have 
 agreed that there are microscopic capillaries in the 
 veins that bear the burden of labor, and thus relieve 
 the heart of that wonderful force it was supposed to 
 possess. This explanation, however, only tends to 
 
130 BLOOD CIRCULATION 
 
 mystify the subject still more, since it is only an 
 assumption, and is not susceptible of proofs. 
 
 It is not a pleasant thing for an intelligent man 
 to say he believes a supposed truth without being able 
 to give a reason for his belief, especially when there is 
 none to be given, though he may sometimes be com- 
 pelled to do so, but to assert that the circulation of 
 the blood is produced by the action of the heart, is 
 certainly without reason or scientific basis. It is hard 
 enough to believe that the heart possesses muscular 
 strength to perform the simple office of a valve 
 operated by a known force, as the valve of a pump 
 is employed by the engine running it in throwing 
 water; but to say that the heart is automatic and 
 produces the wonderful phenomenon of circulating 
 the blood through the system, which would require 
 an incalculable force, is certainly without reason or 
 demonstration. 
 
 From all the examinations the doctors have ever 
 made they never have yet been able to discover any 
 special department of the heart for the generating of 
 force, which is necessary to produce circulation; some- 
 times the heart becomes so very weak that it can 
 scarcely beat at all, and yet circulation to the ex- 
 tremities goes on. The heart will even stop beating 
 for an unnatural length of time, and again resume its 
 operations, which it could not do if self-operated; 
 therefore we feel safe in saying that the heart does not 
 produce the circulation at all. 
 
 The blood is automatic, it being composed of 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 131 
 
 gases, is constantly kept in motion by taking on and 
 throwing off its component elements. When the brain 
 is in health the blood is kept in a highly charged 
 magnetic condition which causes it to move rapidly 
 through the body; but without a regulator it would 
 flow too fast, or be irregular in its motion. 
 
 To obviate this difficulty and to produce a regular 
 circulation of the blood through the entire system, 
 nature provided a check valve in the form of the heart, 
 with its chambers of sufficient size to receive and dis- 
 charge at necessary intervals enough blood to reduce 
 its motion to a proper circulation to supply the de- 
 mands of the whole system with magnetism, without 
 loss of energy. This organ being connected to the 
 brains, the great magnetic store-house and distributing 
 office of the body, by nerves, its valves are operated 
 by magnetic involuntary discharges from the brain at 
 regular intervals, forcing the valves to open and close, 
 receive and discharge regularly and continuously, 
 thus producing a regular circulation. 
 
 Resuscitation in case of suspended animation is 
 strong evidence in favor of magnetic forces producing 
 circulation. 
 
 Artificial respiration forces into the blood mag- 
 netism, which finds its way to the brain, which 
 revives the organ of life and causes it to throw off 
 magnetism, that finds its way to the heart and operates 
 the valves admitting the blood into the chambers of 
 the heart, from which it is discharged, thus repeating 
 the operation till circulation is restored. 
 
132 3LOOD CIRCULATION. 
 
 If life depended on the voluntary action of the 
 heart, all efforts to restore life after the heart had 
 ceased to beat would be without success, because the 
 heart is supposed to be the life motor, and therefore 
 could not be forced to beat after once withdrawing its 
 forces. But, on the contrary, it has been forced to 
 renew its action several minutes after life was sup- 
 posed to have become extinct. 
 
 Some physicians might object to this mode of 
 reasoning, because the heart is the first organ to form 
 in all animal bodies. In reply to this objection I will 
 say that it is quite natural and reasonable that it 
 should be so, since it is necessary to have blood and a 
 regalar circulation first, and the heart second, which 
 is always the case before the animal can be properly 
 developed — blood first, the heart second, and other 
 organs falling in line of development according to the 
 order of their importance, the brain being the last, 
 perhaps, developed, because the parent of the child 
 performs before birth all the offices of the brain after 
 birth; so this objection is answered, for the brain has 
 no office to perform till after the child is born. 
 
 The pendulum of the clock has nothing to do 
 with operating the machineiy; it only determines the 
 speed the wheels shall move. Just so w T ith the human 
 heart, nature uses it as a regulator, and not as a motive 
 power. 
 
 It is well known that violent exercise will ac- 
 celerate the motion of the blood, and also quicken the 
 beating of the pulse, not because the heart acts first, 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 133 
 
 for it does not, it has no innate force, and therefore 
 cannot act until impelled to do so by some existing 
 force, and that force is magnetism, which is stored in 
 the brain by the blood. 
 
 The action of the diaphragm, which is instru- 
 mental in operating the lungs, is involuntary, because 
 it is produced by magnetism sent from the brain. The 
 action of the lungs which causes breathing is also in- 
 voluntary, because it is produced by magnetism sent 
 from the brain. The action of the lungs which causes 
 breathing is also involuntary, since being operated by 
 the action of the diaphrapm. In the act of breathing 
 the blood is kept in motion by absorbing stellar mag- 
 netism from the lungs, consequently human existence 
 is a voluntary action of natural forces, but involuntary 
 human action. 
 
 The human organism is so constructed that the 
 functional operations will continue, even while man is 
 wholly unconscious of his existence. The blood carries 
 these magnetic forces to the brain, where they are 
 stored and used by nature's voluntary agent, which 
 operates the whole physical organization from that 
 position, even producing thought and intelligence. 
 The blood being the means of transportation, it is 
 continually receiving magnetism at the lungs and dis- 
 charging it at the brain. The brain in turn must re- 
 lieve itself of the surplus force by dispatching it over 
 the nerves to the vital organs as well as all other parts 
 of the body. 
 
 This act of the brain, or a portion of it, causes 
 
143 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 
 
 each organ to perform its functions, whether man is 
 asleep or awake, conscious or otherwise; so the mag- 
 netic force from the brain to the heart keeps it in con- 
 stant action, opening and closing its valves, thus per- 
 mitting the blood to pass through, by which process 
 life continues. This reduces the voluntary action of 
 the body down to one force, and that is magnetic, the 
 motive power of the universe. This being true, the 
 heart beats fast or slow; first, according to the mag- 
 netic condition of the nerve controlling that organ; 
 second, according to the magnetic strength of the blood; 
 and third, according to the degree of mental excite- 
 ment brought to bear on the brain at any given time. 
 The difference in the number of pulsations produced 
 in any two given persons in health and repose during 
 a stated time, is not very great, which goes to show 
 that nature's voluntary work is not violent. So in 
 order to produce a violent action of the body, the 
 whole organism must become excited, but whether 
 voluntary or otherwise, it must first occur at the 
 brain through the human senses, or by means of 
 stimulants, and not at the heart; which is evidence 
 that the heart is not the prime mover in producing, 
 sustaining life, and keeping up the circulation of the 
 blood. 
 
 The heart being connected to the brain by nerves, 
 its valves are operated by magnetism sent from the 
 brain. The blood being highly charged with magnet- 
 ism gives it vivacity, which causes it to press the 
 valves of the heart, which open, admit, close, and dis- 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 135 
 
 charge, at the dictates of the brain, when a strong, 
 rapid pulse is felt in a healthy person; but any excite- 
 ment of the brain will cause it to throw off more force, 
 which quickens the action of the heart, and lets more 
 blood pass through, thereby exciting the pulsations. 
 
 The act of running makes the heart beat faster 
 than usual; but the heart is not alone excited by the 
 exercise of the body, all the vital organs are equally 
 stimulated, but the others being not so sensitive to the 
 effect of the magnetic force as the heart is, they are 
 not felt to act with the same power. 
 
 In order to produce the bodily exertion, the mind 
 must first be excited, which increases the action of the 
 brain and causes it to attract more magnetism, thus 
 making increased demand on the blood for more power. 
 The brain now dispatches rapidly to the heart for re- 
 inforcements, the heart responds to the call by operat- 
 ing its valves with greater rapidity than before, thus 
 permitting the blood to flow faster to the lungs, where 
 it is rapidly vitalized by stellar force, and, receiving 
 new impetus, drives forward, supplying the brain and 
 nerve center w^ith the necessary vitality to keep them 
 in active operation. The brain stimulates the action 
 of the diaphragm at the same time, thus increasing 
 respiration, so that the whole machinery of the body 
 acts simultaneously under the command of the brain. 
 In proportion to the excitement, or the demand for 
 increased forces, will the heart become animated and 
 the whole physical structure become excited and ready 
 for action. The man who is interested in his own 
 
136 BLOOD CIRCULATION. 
 
 business can do much more than his employe with 
 less fatigue, both being of equal strength, because the 
 mind of the master, who is deeply interested in his 
 work, is continually excited, thereby causing the brain 
 to stimulate the heart, which accelerates the blood, 
 thus furnishing the system with renewed strength. 
 But in the uninterested man there is nothing in the 
 business to stimulate the action of the heart; the blood 
 is sluggish, and every movement is forced and labored,, 
 and the body soon becomes tired. 
 
 In delicate persons the heart sometimes fails to 
 produce a pulsation when it throbs; the reason for this 
 omission is that the brain being weak, it fails to 
 supply to the heart a magnetic current strong enough 
 to open the valve of the heart sufficiently to receive 
 the usual quantity of blood. With no resisting force 
 to check the action of the valve, it comes quickly back 
 to place with a jar, thereby causing a fluttering of the 
 pulse instead of a full beat. This double action of the 
 valve taking place before admitting the blood to the 
 chamber of the heart, will cause the blood to check its 
 flow. A slight disturbance of mental forces excites 
 the brain, which causes it to discharge additional 
 forces, so that when the action of the valve is restored 
 the pulses will become stronger and faster for a few 
 beats, in order to let the surplus blood pass through to 
 the lungs. 
 
 Extreme fright will also cause the heart to omit 
 one or more discharges of blood and then beat fast for 
 a while to relieve the pressure at that organ. A fright- 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 
 
 causes the brain to become excited 
 heart rapidly, causing it to perform i 
 The most intense fright is caused w 1 
 in a state of perfect composure, 
 very regular and measured in its b' 
 slow in motion. 
 
 To excite the brain at such a 
 discharge to the heart magnetic ' 
 cession and causes an imperfe 
 which prevents the blood from 
 thus retards its circulation, 
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 can utilize. If the excitement would come on gradu- 
 ally the brain and blood would act in concert without 
 producing unpleasant sensations. The blood in its 
 haste to return to the lungs finds its progress im- 
 peded by the inability of the heart to pass it through. 
 The heart cannot increase the size of its capacity, 
 therefore, must perform extra labor by increased ac- 
 tivity. While this is going on a fulness about the 
 that organ is felt, but this feeling gradually passes 
 away as the brain returns to its natural action, the 
 blood to its normal condition. The body is then 
 restored to its natural strength. A person of delicate 
 organic structure may be frightened to death where 
 the shock is sufficient to destroy the action of the brain 
 ceils, and thus suspend the brain force, and prevent it 
 from reaching the heart, which might easily be done 
 where the brain center is weak, and the action of the 
 heart imperfect. The brain may not lose its func- 
 tional powers wholly, but life goes out before the blood 
 can supply the necessary forces. Artificial respiration 
 would, in some cases, restore life. But when the brain 
 centers which support the heart are active and strong 
 there is no danger of producing death because nature 
 can rally her forces after the shock in time to save life. 
 Wise men may say that circulation of the blood 
 is produced by the heart, but that explanation is not 
 satisfactory to any scientific man living, since there 
 can be no solution given for its action. If the heart 
 is automatic and supplies its own force, and, conse- 
 quently, all the forces of the body, then what force 
 
BLOOD CIRCULATION. 13* 
 
 can step in and arrest its action for an unnatural 
 length of time and then allow it to resume its func- 
 tional operations, which it not infrequently does? 
 
 But in the absence of the true cause, this explana- 
 tion has been allowed to follow in the wake of science 
 to satisfy the longing for a perfect solution of the per- 
 plexed problem. 
 
 It is an easy matter to assert that it is an innate 
 force of the heart that does the work, but to explain a 
 force where none exists is quite another thing. But 
 the magnetic force that rules and controls the action 
 of the universe, impels planets forward in their courses 
 with unvarying velocity, and sustains heavenly bodies 
 in their mutual relation to each other, and establishes 
 and sustains order throughout the universe. Operat- 
 ing in the blood will produce its circulation. 
 
 When the forces of attraction and repulsion exist- 
 ing in the molecules of matter can be explained, the 
 action of the heart w r ill be fully understood, the germ 
 of life discovered, and the law of the universe com- 
 prehended. 
 
 The doctor feels the pulse of his patient, not to 
 ascertain the strength of the heart, but the strength of 
 the entire system, which is produced by the magnetic 
 condition of the blood, though he may not admit it. 
 
 If the heart produced the circulation of the blood, 
 then the physician can tell the condition of the heart 
 only by the beating of the pulse, whereas the pulse is 
 the indicator of the various conditions of the blood 
 and body. 
 
^ aiiu ncc liuiiA u.i^ccioc xv ouuuiu aiwaj© miptxi t 
 
 j same force to the blood, and give a round, full 
 pulse all the time. But, on the contrary, the heart 
 may be in perfect health and the pulse very feeble. 
 The heart may also be weak in health and the pulse 
 fetrong and full. 
 
 Weakness of the heart is caused by a feeble condi- 
 tion of the brain followed by inaction of the nerve, and, 
 finally, by heart failure. 
 
 The body may be strong and vigorous in every 
 other particular and the heart weak, but the inaction 
 of the heart will finally reduce the system in health, 
 because it prevents a perfect circulation of the blood, 
 which is necessary to keep up repairs of the system, 
 by distributing material to the various parts of the 
 body as it is needed. 
 
 But it is plain to be seen that the action of the 
 heart is not voluntary, but is controled by stellar 
 forces, which are regular or irregular according to the 
 strength of the brain center which supplies it. 
 
 The blood may be highly charged with magnetic 
 forces and the heart inactive because the nerve center 
 whence rises its nerve is not strong. 
 
CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 SYSTEMS. 
 
 It is a singular fact, if the foregoing reasoning 
 is false, that the different systems comprising the 
 human anatomy, are constructed on the plan of 12, 
 like the new Jerusalem, which the revelator is said to 
 have seen come down out of heaven and rest on 12 
 foundations, which were garnished by 12 precious 
 stones. The city measured 12 x 12 cubits square, and 
 was 12 thousand furlongs. It had 12 gates made oi 
 12 pearls. They were guarded by 12 angels, with 12 
 swords. 
 
 I do not refer to the foregoing numbers as having 
 any bearing on the human anatomy, but only as an 
 amusing coincidence to show that perhaps the revela- 
 tor recognized the order and beauty of the heavens, 
 and perhaps understood something of the influence of 
 the zodiac, and allowed his fancy free rein while 
 banished to that lonely isle. Perhaps he fancied 
 that because the zodiac was separated into 12 divi- 
 sions, there must be something sacred or mystical in 
 that number, and used for a special purpose by the 
 "divine" builder of the universe, and therefore thought 
 he would erect his future city on the same plan as his 
 air-castle, but before it was finished he died, poor man! 
 
 Nature's Mathematics. — 1st. The human frame 
 
142 SYSTEMS. 
 
 is constructed of 17x12 bones, or 204. 
 
 2nd. From the top of the head to the end of the 
 spinal column there are 4x12, or 48 bones. 
 
 3rd. On each side of the body there are 12 ribs. 
 
 4th. From the end of the finger to the shoulder 
 there are six joints; from the end of the toe to the body 
 there are six joints, making 12 joints on each side of 
 the body. 
 
 5th. In the hands and arms there are 5 times 12 
 bones or 60. 
 
 6th. There are 12 pair of cranial nerves. 
 
 7th. The eyes are controled by 12 optical muscles. 
 
 8th. There are 6, or half of 12, pairs of great vital 
 systems; 1, the bone structure; 2, the muscular; 3, the 
 nervous; 4, the visceral; 5, the circulatory, and 6, skin 
 or superficial circulation. 
 
 The foregoing physiological facts ought to be suffi- 
 cient evidence to convince the most skeptical of the 
 creative laws of nature, but should they be inadequate 
 to satisfy the studious mind, let the critical reader 
 proceed through the next chapter. 
 
 Functions of the Nervous System. — To corobo- 
 rate the statement that the nerves control the growth 
 of flesh, another marvelous coincidence, if it be noth- 
 ing more, presents itself to the eyes of the investigator. 
 It is the inseparable association of the nervous and 
 venous system, for each and every nerve is attended 
 throughout its length by blood veins. The association 
 of these two systems are not accidents either; such an 
 occurrence could hardly have taken place by accident, 
 
SYSTEMS. 143 
 
 with two systems so extremely complicated as the two 
 just mentioned, even if accidents are admissable; there- 
 fore, it must be conceeded that it was not a slip of the 
 tongue or the toe of Jehovah that caused the associa- 
 tion, but a necessity with nature in the prosecution 
 of her work in creating and sustaining the human 
 structure. The body could not be sustained without 
 a nervous system, neither could it be sustained with- 
 out a venous system. 
 
 The question now arises which holds the pre- 
 cedence over the other. It is a well known fact that 
 a large part of the blood can be drawn from the veins 
 without serious or permanent injury to the body, be- 
 cause the absent blood does not affect the functions of 
 that which remains; consequently, if there is enough 
 left in the veins to receive and convey the necessary 
 amount of stellar fluid to the brain, and the various 
 parts of the body, to sustain the organs in the per- 
 formance of their functions, life will continue, and 
 eventually the absent blood will be replaced. The 
 nerves are more vital in their office because they be- 
 long to, and are a part of, the brain; each branch 
 thereof sympathises with all the other branches of that 
 great system in the performance of all its duties. An 
 injury to the brain affects the whole nervous system, 
 and checks or stops the flow of the brain force, which 
 would also stop the circulation; but the blood could 
 not alone be affected by an injury to the brain. If the 
 pneumogastric nerve is parted, death will soon follow. 
 Severing the phrenic nerve will produce a sudden 
 
death, because the diaphragm will cease to vibrate, con- 
 sequently the lungs will stop. 
 
 The foregoing facts are strongly in favor ot the 
 nervous being the more important of the two sys- 
 tems in executing the functions of life. Moreover, 
 when any nerve loses any degree of its functional 
 power, the flesh it sustains shrinks. When a large 
 piece of flesh is torn from the body it is never perfectly 
 replaced, for the reason that the nerves which con- 
 structed it originally are also torn away; therefore, 
 they must be reproduced before new flesh can be 
 formed, but the brain is unable to restore the nerves 
 in their former perfect state, for like shrubs when 
 pruned, they throw out a greater number of branches 
 than they previously possessed, which necessarily 
 shortened their growth. The increased number 
 crowded the newly formed cells and restored the 
 tissue in an imperfect manner, and left a deep scar 
 to mark the place where the wound was made. If the 
 nerves could grow out in their usual perfect form, the 
 healing process would be just the same as the original 
 growth and each cell would be produced in its proper 
 place, and no scar would be left to mark the place 
 where the wound was made. 
 
 Without the leadership of the nerves, blood veins 
 could not form; besides, there would be no incentive 
 to push on to the surface of the body and heal the 
 wound. After the veins were once healed, they would 
 remain so, and the blood could advance no further; 
 and since its natural tendencv would be to return to 
 
tut; lungs, it wuum nut uuuipiett; tue gruvviii 01 iiesii, 
 
 but the wound would heal at once without restoring 
 the full amount of flesh necessary. With the nerves 
 growing out they restore new veins, and keep them 
 healed, and also opened, so that they can supply the 
 necessary elements from the blood to the brain force, 
 and thus produce growth as fast as the nerve advances. 
 It is evident that the growth of all parts of the body 
 is produced by the brain through the agency of the 
 nervous system from the following facts: 
 
 1st. The flesh will not form beyond the end of the 
 nerves. 
 
 2nd. The newly formed flesh is always tender, 
 which is evidence of the presence of the nerves at the 
 surface, but the nerves never protude through the skin, 
 which shows that they do not advance any faster than 
 the flesh grows. 
 
 3th. Flesh cannot shrink till the nerves contract, 
 for while the nerves retain their full length they feed 
 and sustain the weight of flesh already produced. 
 They do not double back nor roll up under the skin, 
 but grow and contract in length with the force of the 
 brain. 
 
 4th. Flesh cannot increase till the nerves advance. 
 Where the nerves go there the blood veins follows, but 
 no veins are formed apart from the nerves. 
 
 5th. The length of the nerve determines the length 
 of the body. Some brains produce long nerves, while 
 others produce short ones, which is the cause of the 
 difference in stature. 
 
146 SYSTEMS, 
 
 The five foregoing facts are quite convincing in 
 their tendency to prove the function of the nervous 
 system, and plainly prove that they are the conduc- 
 tors of the life fluid constantly flowing from the brain 
 to every point of the body 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 ORGANS. 
 
 The following table will show the constituent 
 elements employed in the growth of the vital organs. 
 Since the brain supplies energy to all parts of the 
 body, with brain force or stellar fluid, it must be of 
 the same combination of gases as that originally used 
 in the construction of the entire body in order to sus- 
 tain it in health and activity. The table w r ill show 
 the compound constituent elements entering into the 
 construction of the vital organs. It shows, at a glance, 
 that the elements so abundantly used in one organ is 
 little required in another. In the liver is found 25.23 
 potash, 1.03 potash in the lungs, and 9.60 of the same 
 in the splene. The blood itself could not supply the 
 necessary elements to all of the organs in the right 
 proportion without some assistance. 
 
 Heart Spleen 
 
 44,33 
 9.60 
 
 Liver 
 
 Soda 14.51 
 
 Potash, 25.23 
 
 Lime. 3.61 
 
 Magnesia | . 20 
 
 Feri-Oixide j 2 . 74 
 
 Chlorine 2.58 
 
 Phosphorus 50 . 18 
 
 Sulphur 0.92 
 
 Silicia \ 0.27 
 
 Ferine Phosphorus | . 00 
 
 Florine 
 
 Phosphorine 
 
 Lungs 
 
 19.05 
 1.03 
 1.09 
 1.09 
 3.02 
 0.00 
 
 48.05 
 1.04 
 0.00 
 0.00 
 
 7.47 
 0.49 
 7.28 
 
 .54 
 
 27.10 
 
 2.54 
 
 .17 
 0.00 
 
148 ORGANS. 
 
 If the brain was a unit in its operation, in pro- 
 miscuously gathering and supplying stellar forces in- 
 discriminately to the body, the whole organism would 
 be unsystematically arranged throughout its entire 
 structure, and all parts of it would be just alike in 
 its chemical make-up, which is not the case. As shown 
 by the above table, each organ is composed of a dif- 
 ferent combination of elements from the other; there- 
 fore, systematic laws must have produced them in the 
 beginning, and if they did the assistance of the same 
 laws are constantly required to sustain them in their 
 functional duties. If all the vital organs were com- 
 posed of the same combination of elements they would 
 be exactly alike in their formation, texture and physical 
 functions; but they are not, and in that fact lies the 
 secret of their existence, since their difference is neces- 
 sary to life; each organ being differently formed from 
 the other requires a different combination of gases to 
 sustain. Now the question arises, how does each organ 
 obtain its necessary supply of the necessary chemical 
 elements to enable it to perform its special function? 
 Not alone through the agency of the blood can this be 
 done, since it is a common carrier laden with all the 
 necessary material for the reparation and reconstruc- 
 tion of the entire system; but this is not all which is 
 necessary to keep up the repairs of the body. There 
 must be a controling agent to attend to the proper 
 distribution of thfi filpmfmts in thp hloorl "\Vhir.h of 
 
ORGANS 149 
 
 sulphur, 48.05 phosphorus, and so on through the 
 whole catalogue of elements to be discharged at the 
 various organs of the body? This process, as all will 
 agree, cannot be done by chance. There must be a 
 director or a regulator to see that each bone, muscle, 
 cord, tendon, and every organ in the body, is supplied 
 with the required combination in sufficient quantities 
 to sustain the body in the discharge of its entire func- 
 tions. Nature has attended to that important matter 
 by delegating to the brain this important office. From 
 each of the zodiacal centers of the brain are sent out 
 forces peculiar to itself, and which sustain the parts 
 of the body which it creates. Along the line of nerves 
 extend blood veins, which contain the necessary ele- 
 ments to unite with the brain fluid to build up the 
 body. 
 
 Corpuscles. — The blood, or plasm, contains the 
 carriers, called corpuscles. They are of two colors — 
 white and red. The red corpuscles, I judge, convey 
 the elements in the blood, while the white corpuscles 
 convey the stellar elements, which they receive at the 
 lungs, to the brain. The brain is constantly dis- 
 charging their fluids over the nervous system to all 
 parts of the body. When it reaches a broken down 
 tissue, or an absent cell, it draws from the blood the 
 necessary elements to repair the breach, while the 
 blood flows on. It matters not what kind of a cell 
 is missing, or of what combination of gases it is com- 
 
 nospr] t"hn "hrnin spnrls rmt ihp samp p.rvm "hi ruvtirm anrl 
 
150 ORGANS. 
 
 entire physical organism is sustained, and thus are 
 the vital organs supplied with the necessary energy to 
 perform their important functions, and thus is each 
 division of the body supplied with its constituent ele- 
 ments in the necessary proportions without mistake 
 or delay; but should any division of the brain fail to 
 accumulate a sufficient amount of stellar forces to 
 supply the loss of waste matter sufficiently to keep up 
 a perfect action of any or all parts of the body, the 
 vital organs will fail to perfectly perform their work, 
 when the body will decline in strength, and ill-health 
 will follow. 
 
 Thus it has been shown that the animal organism 
 was mechanically devised, systematically constructed, 
 and regularly operated by the chemical divisions of 
 the brain. It is generally supposed that the vital or- 
 gans were created to support and lend activity to the 
 brain, as well as strength to the mind. It wfll, there- 
 fore, be a surprise to many to learn that the reverse is 
 true. It is now well understood that the brain gives 
 life to the whole organism, and sustains the vital 
 organs in the discharge of their important duty. The 
 organs cannot cease to perform their functions except 
 by a cessation of brain force, but when the brain ceases 
 to perform its functions, no matter how strong and 
 healthy the organs may be, they will cease operation 
 at once. A heavy blow on the head will instantly 
 suspend animation, and all of the organs will cease to 
 perform their duties, for the jar causes the brain cells 
 to discharge their entire supply of vital fluids, and 
 
ORGANS. 1*1 
 
 themselves collapse and remain in that condition; but 
 if the blow is not severe enough to cause the cells to 
 lose their functional power, they will after a short 
 time breathing refill with stellar fluid, and life will 
 continue as before. Sometimes, however, the brain 
 grows weak from other causes than blows. Then if 
 the organs cease to perform their functions, life goes 
 out of the body. Occasionally the brain forces run 
 down to so low an ebb of life that the nerves cannot 
 dispose of the waste matter of the body when disease 
 sets in. Thus an organ may waste away to that extent 
 that death will follow. 
 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 ORGANIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUHAN 
 BRAIN. 
 
 As previously explained, the human anatomy is 
 composed of different systems, bones, muscles, nerves, 
 etc., each of which is constructed on a basis of 12. 
 The zodiacal brain is also constructed of 12 general 
 chemical divisions, which being true, it is not improb- 
 able that the planetary brain is constructed on the 
 same basis. However, it has not yet been proven. 
 
 I did not reach this conclusion from the number 
 of planets which created them, nor from a study of 
 those bodies, but from a study of the attractions of the 
 zodiacal brain and its divisions. It is a fact, well 
 known to the author, that the zodiacal brain at the 
 moment of birth, becomes a magnet of attraction 
 for planetary gases, and eventually produces the 
 phrenological organs; and since the zodiacal brain 
 does attract zodiacal gases, it is presumably true 
 that each division would possess the same power of 
 attraction as the others, and therefore produce the 
 same number of mental organs, since they are formed 
 in groups. There are 42 mental organs now discovered 
 and no divisior will give 12 for a quotient. Four is 
 as near as can be reached to produce that number; 
 but 4x12 equal 48, which is 6 in excess of the correct 
 number. If all of the mental divisions have been dis- 
 
MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. *53 
 
 covered, then this theory is false, and some other ex- 
 planation must be given to account for the number known. 
 The power of attraction existing in the zodiacal brain 
 is known from the fact that all the mental groups 
 found in different brains are differently developed, and 
 the various positions and aspects of the planets 
 at the time of birth show to what degree they 
 will develop, which should not be the case if they 
 were not created in that way. The variations of brain 
 growth and development is explained as follows: — The 
 zodiacal division of the brain will not attract planetary 
 gases from all quarters of the heavens except that of 
 Mercury, but certain divisions of the zodiacal brain 
 will attract Mercurial gases from any position he may 
 occupy when he is free from the Sun's beams; but 
 when passing between the sun and the earth, and also 
 when passing the opposition, at the time of birth, his 
 gases are consumed or dissipated by the Sun's rays to 
 that extent that a child born at that time cannot re- 
 ceive them. Other planets are not illy affected by the 
 Sun's beams; on the contrary, the conjunction of the 
 Sun and Jupiter is very good, while the conjunction of 
 saturn and the sun is ver} 7 evil; but the evil effect 
 appears to be on the sun, to weaken his effect, or, what 
 is more likely to be true is that when they both hold 
 the same position the brain attracts elements from 
 both of them for the same purpose, and the combina- 
 tion does not work well together. All the planets, 
 except Mercury, must be in certain positions before 
 the zodiacal brain will receive them. Another singular 
 
154 MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. 
 
 fact, known to all the students of this sublime seience, 
 is that no zodiacal division of the brain will attract 
 all combinations of planetary gases, as sextiles, squares, 
 trines and oppositions; but each division will attract a 
 certain combination, and utilize them in developing 
 the brain. Thus the trine aspect of the Sun and Jupiter 
 to each other will supply the combination of gases 
 necessary to develop the organs of acquisitiveness ad- 
 hesiveness and veneration, but the combination pro- 
 duced by squares and opposition of the same bodies 
 will not be attracted to those divisions, and the organs 
 will remain undeveloped. The trine of Venus and the 
 moon supplies a combination of gases which are at- 
 tracted to the frontal brain at birth, and develop the 
 organs of order, while the square aspect of the two 
 bodies will supply a combination of gases which can- 
 not be attraoted to that zodiacal division of the brain, 
 therefore order will not be developed. Any aspect of 
 mars will produce a certain degree of development of 
 the organs of time, calculation and constructiveness; 
 but the sextile and trine aspects are much better than 
 the square or opposition. The conjunction sextile and 
 trine of venus and Mercury will produce a combination 
 of gases which will be attracted to given divisions and 
 develop the organs of time, color and ideality; mirth- 
 fulness and philoprogentiveness. 
 
 The foregoing being true, it cannot be truthfully 
 said that the organization of the brain is the result of 
 a, design; neither can it be said that it is the result of 
 an accident; nor yet, the result of heredity; nor parenta\ 
 
MENTAL DEVELOPMENT. 15S 
 
 influences. It is purely the result of natural laws,, 
 which were, so far as can be known, created without 
 design. 
 
 Doubtless the laws of nature cause every event of 
 human life; but that they were foreordained by her 
 from the beginning cannot be proven by reason, law 
 or precedence. 
 
 HOROSCOPE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
 
 Our martyred and lamented President and Charles 
 Darwin were born in the same year, in the same month, 
 and on the same day thereof, but not at the same hour. 
 
 If they had been born in the same latitude and 
 longitude, their births would have occurred two hours 
 apart, which would have left the planetary aspects in 
 their respective horoscopes very nearly the same. 
 The Sun and Mars, shedding their benign influence 
 on each other, gave to Mr. Lincoln physical strength 
 and power of endurance. The Sun, Moon and Jupiter, 
 receiving the friendly influence of each other, gave 
 him hope; Mars, squaring the Moon, gave courage and 
 confidence; Saturn gave tenacity of purpose, while 
 Uranus and Mercury in trine aspect to each other im- 
 parted to this great man intuitive knowledge and a 
 clearness of vision, that bordered on to the realm of 
 prophecy. Being born of the same race of people the 
 brains of their parents possessed similar combinations of 
 elements;therefore the planets would affect them similar- 
 ly if not the same through gestation, consequently, the 
 
156 LINCOLN'S HOROSCOPE 
 
 heavens would create similar results in their respec- 
 tive embrio through the brains of two mothers that 
 they would through the brain of one mother; therefore 
 with a degree of truth it can be said that they were 
 twins. Notwithstanding the fact their fathers were dif- 
 ferent men and their mothers were thousands of miles 
 apart when these embriotic giants were born; 
 nevertheless they caught the same planetary inspira- 
 tion. Could Mr. Lincoln have had a twin brother 
 iDorn under the same influence as was Mr. Darwin 
 their horoscopes would have read the same; or, if 
 Lincoln and Darwin had both been born on the "old 
 Kentucky shore," they would have been as near alike 
 as if they had been born of the same mother. They 
 came that near being twins: they were born under 
 conjunction signs, which gave to each different rulers 
 from the other. Mr. Darwin was ruled by Mars and 
 Uranus, which made him wayward, rebellious, despis- 
 ing authority, somewhat selfish and malicious, which 
 caused his mind to wander away from the beaten track 
 of public opinion, and to pass beyond the lines of 
 scientific limits, far into the waste of the unexplored. 
 Lincoln was ruled by the great Jove or Jehova, 
 with Saturn near his eastern horizon, which gave him 
 a different bent of mind from that of Mr. Darwin. 
 He was the man of the people; he liked social and 
 political institutions; he liked order and social har- 
 mony, and though possessing the same great ability 
 as Mr. Darwin, his love of pursuits was different; he 
 chose law for his profession because it was genial to 
 
LINCOLN'S HOROSCOPE 157 
 
 his mind; he was humane and unselfish and placed 
 justice above price. To defend the weak was a pleas- 
 ure; to advance, and to guard the interests of all was 
 to him a delight. He loved freedom for himself and 
 desired that all should enjoy what he so highly prized. 
 Uranus and Mercury in trine aspect to each other 
 made him thoughtful, profound and farseeing in his 
 plans. His sense of right was less erring than the 
 letter of the law; his justice more discreet than found 
 on the statute books of nations. He could look beyond 
 the act to the motive of the offender of the law and 
 mete out justice according to his deserts; he was a 
 friend to the downtrodden, and his ears were always 
 open to the pleadings of the poor; he knew the right 
 and had the courage to pursue it; he was one of nature's 
 noblest ox noble men. In his horoscope his house of 
 friends was badly afflicted, consequently he was left 
 with planetary influences to scale the height of fame. 
 His ability alone won the victory and landed him on 
 the topmost piniole of fame's dizzy height, thereto glit- 
 ter in the sun of admiration. 
 
CHAPTER XIX. 
 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 The Encepelon is a peculiarly constructed engine, 
 possessing more power than any engine of like size yet 
 produced by the ingenuity of man. It is so different 
 from any human invention yet produced by him that 
 man has not been able to guess the intricacies of its- 
 operation, and not being permitted to see it work in 
 the fullness of its strength, and in the execution of its 
 skillful functions, he can learn but little concerning 
 the force pervading the human brain, 
 
 Heads. — Human heads are interesting objects to 
 study, since the shape of them is determined by the 
 form and strength of the brain. 
 
 The heads of all animals also afford an interesting 
 6tudy, since the form of their bodies are determined by 
 the shapes of their heads. All animals, belonging to 
 the same species, are practically the same in form. 
 They are so near alike that the naturalist can classify 
 them from their general appearance with little or no 
 trouble. 
 
 The skulls of horses, dogs, beast and birds, as well 
 as all species of animal life, can readily be pointed out 
 by the expert naturalist; yet there is a slight variation 
 in the skull of individual animals belonging to the 
 same species, but which difference is noticeable only 
 to the close observer. Perhaps there is a greater varia- 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 159 
 
 tion in the form of the human than is to be found 
 in the skulls of any other species of animal life, 
 which is attributable to the many and various forces 
 working in the human brain, and which take no part 
 in forming the brain of other animals. The skull must 
 conform to the size and shape of the brain, and since 
 there are more subdivisions in the brain of man than 
 in the brains of any other animals it is subjected to a 
 greater number of variations. The specific difference 
 found in the human skull is not the result of accident, 
 nor, as some suppose, caused by an irregular pressure 
 on a conglomerate mass of brain matter, which, like 
 so much putty, may be moulded in the various shapes, 
 as the pressure might determine; but they are all 
 caused by a natural development of the brain, which 
 is produced by planetary forces. Some children have 
 peculiarly formed heads, and their fond mothers ex- 
 cuse them to those who notice their unusual shapes by 
 explaining that they were produced by a fall, or lying 
 too much one on Bide when asleep, or by some neglect 
 or carelessness on her part, for the mother will bear 
 any blame to shield her unfortunate child. In some 
 cases the ears are thrust well out from the head, and 
 their tops thrown forward, thus giving them an un- 
 pleasant prominence. The mother explains that it 
 wae caused by wearing the cap too low down on the 
 ears, thus crowding them out and forward; but she 
 will probably notice that the child thus deformed is 
 very active, restless, and often cruel and unkind to 
 animals; also inclined to be rough and wild. He is 
 
160 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 not thus endowed because his ears are peculiarly set 
 on the head, But because the shape of the brain which 
 made them stand out so prominently also caused the 
 temperament. The prominence of the ears is the result 
 of natural and not artificial causes. 
 
 Ears lying close to the head show a want of energy, 
 whether the child wore his cap low down on them 
 or went bareheaded. Large, well developed or small, 
 well developed heads, and malformations, are the result 
 of natural laws, and all have been produced with each 
 generation from time immemorial, and it is safe to say 
 that the same results will follow during the coming 
 generations. However, it is a hope, devoutly to be 
 wished, that with the increase of scientific knowledge, 
 and a better understanding of the natural causes which 
 produce them, that the percentage of malformations 
 will decrease in the same ratio, and that less suffering 
 will result from personal gratification in the future. 
 
 There is a law of growth in the human brain 
 which is not easily understood, and therefore hard to 
 explain in regard to the respective brains born at 
 different hours of the same day. There is a percept- 
 able difference in them, both in size and shape. In 
 their physical divisions they are the same. These 
 divisions embrace cerebrum, cerebellum, and medula- 
 oblongatta, with their subdivisions. These parts are 
 so nearly alike in all human brairs that it is not diffi- 
 cult for naturalists to select them from any number of 
 brains belonging to the lower animals. The cerebellum 
 is the seat of life and motion. Ail involuntary actions 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 161 
 
 of the body are produced by the force sent from this 
 brain. But this is not the point I wish to call the 
 attention of the reader to at this time. It is the 
 general form of the different skulls belonging to the 
 same species, and especially to the human family. 
 This difference is noticeable in the form of skulls born 
 at different hours of the same day. Tlipy are produced 
 prior to birth, and usually appear at the rising of cer- 
 tain zodiacal signs. The difference in the develop- 
 ments of the respective skulls is owing to the prevail- 
 ing elements received from the division which rises at 
 the moment of birth. 
 
 Aries, rising at the birth, will produce a well 
 developed zodiacal, somewhat elongated, but well 
 balanced brain. 
 
 Taurus, when rising at birth, produces a well 
 developed, zodiacal brain, which is broad in front, 
 but not very high, and somewhat inclined to round- 
 ness. 
 
 •oemini, rising at birth, generally produces a 
 high brain, narrow at the base, but wide at the top. 
 
 Cancer produces a medium-sized brain, inclined 
 roundness, and generally narrow in front, 
 
 Leo produces a large, well developed, zodiacal 
 brain, spherical in form, broader in front than back 
 the ears, but heavy neck. 
 
 Virgo, «rhen rising at birth, produces a 1 
 vow brain, arching from front to rear, and a low 
 forehead. 
 
 Libra produce- a small, fine brain, r and and 
 rather high. 
 
162 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 Sagittarius produces a high, round brain, small 
 at the base, back of the ears, but widens as it rises. 
 
 Capricornus produces a medium-sized brain, more 
 square than round, backhead medium in size. 
 
 Aquarius produces a large, well developed, zodiacal 
 brain, but usually narrow just back of the ears, which 
 causes them to lie close to the head. 
 
 Pisces produces a large, well developed brain, the 
 ears lying close to the head. 
 
 The foregoing are the forms of the zodiacal brains at 
 birth, and before the planetary brain is added to them. 
 Notwithstanding there is a noticeable difference in the 
 general form of the human brains, their functions re- 
 main the same, except in degree of power. Each divi- 
 sion performs its involuntary duty by supplying the 
 internal organs with force to perform their physical 
 functions, but all brains do not execute their work 
 with the same degree of activity, for the reason that 
 all do not possess equal power to generate brain force, 
 and therefore cannot supply it to the vital organs to 
 the same extent. 
 
 The difference which marks the forms of the brains, 
 born at the rising of specific signs, is observable even 
 in the heads of twins born at different hours of the 
 same day. One, born at the rising of Libra, will have 
 a small round head, while one born two hours later, 
 at the rising of Scorpio, will have a large, broad head 
 possessing a much greater degree of vitality than the 
 former one; yet the physical divisions and the vital 
 functions of the respective brains would be much alike, 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 163 
 
 except that one would possess less vitality. Why this 
 is true I am at a loss to explain, except it exists in the 
 power of attraction of the ruling nucleus, or the one 
 first formed; it being the organizer of the eleven subse- 
 quently added to it. It may have the power to draw 
 them closer, in a more condensed form, in the latter 
 than in the former case. Should the first nucleus 
 originate in Taurus, Scorpio, or Sagittarius, it would 
 be more vital than though it originated in Gemini, 
 Libra or Cancer, for the reason above stated; but why 
 one should be stronger than another degree of the 
 zodiacal belt is not yet understood, but there is a 
 natural cause, whatever it may be, for the difference. 
 The development of the zodiacal brain I attribute 
 to the predominating influence which the sign ruling 
 at conception had over the germ from that time on till 
 birth. The cause of the predominating influence I 
 further attribute to the fact that the germ contains 
 pervading elements, which would require contact with 
 certain other elements in order to create fecundation, 
 for the simple contact of the ovum and the spermatazoa 
 of themselves would not cause impregnation. If con- 
 tact was all that was necessary, then any ovum, when 
 ripe, would receive the sperm at any time when sup- 
 plied, and produce life, which is not the case. Some- 
 times the germs are so inharmoniously constructed in 
 their chemical make-up, that zodiacal forces cannot 
 induce them to form a union. Should Libra be rising 
 at the time of birth, I should attribute the cause to 
 the predominating influence which that division exer« 
 
164 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 cised over the fan us during gestation. The cause of 
 the predominance of the Libra elements I would 
 further attribute to the chemical condition of the 
 ovum at the time of conception. If it contained a 
 predominance of the Venus elements it would require 
 the assistance of Zodiacal elements of the Venus nature, 
 to unite the two forces, male and female. The division 
 Libra, possessing such elements to a greater degree 
 than other divisions of the zodiac, supplies them to 
 the germ as soon as the earth has reached a point 
 which make it possible for them to receive the zodiacal 
 forces required, which would be at a certain degree of 
 Libra. 
 
 Thus it appears that if conception takes place at 
 the rising of Libra, the birth will also occur at the 
 rising of the same division, which position would give 
 the Libra elements the predominating influence over 
 the ruling nuclei of the ovum, which it would continue 
 to hold through the period of gestation. In order to 
 continue this authority over the physical development 
 of the child, the Libra forces caused it to be born at 
 the rising of that sign, for the reason that the elements 
 from the zodiacal division were so strong in the child 
 before birth that they must continue in power after 
 birth. In order to do so, the child must be born at 
 the rising of Libra. The reason for Libra rising is that 
 the eastern division is the strongest point for the 
 dominating division to hold at the time of birth. 
 li by ''accident," or by the design of the attending 
 physician, the birth is forced out of its perfect time, 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 165 
 
 nature's design is thwarted, and evil results will fol- 
 low to a greater or less degree; but to what extent can 
 only be known by the influence of the afflicting planet 
 in the horoscope of the mother at that particular time. 
 In some cases the time of birth is apparently post- 
 poned, but nature is only waiting for the rising of the 
 ruling division before producing the birth. The delay 
 has caused many a mother unnecessary pangs, while 
 waiting in doubt concerning the result of her confine- 
 ment, which could easily have been dispelled by 
 having a little scientific information on the subject 
 at the proper time regarding the cause of the delay. 
 
 Should the Mars elements predominate in the 
 parental germs at conception, which might be the 
 case, even with parents who are ruled by the planet 
 Venus, because the organism of all are undergoing a 
 constant change caused by the planets moving from 
 one to another position, from the influence of a maUfic 
 to that of a benefic, or vice versa, than it would require 
 Mars elements to cause fecundation, consequently 
 Mars elements would be the first to get possession of 
 the embrio, and when in possession they would hold 
 the controling position over the other elements, and 
 rule their development through gestation. Then, ac- 
 cording to the law of development, the Mars elements 
 should rule through life, and, therefore, nature would 
 cause the birth to take place when the Mars influences 
 were strongest, which would be at the rising of Aries 
 or Scorpio. 
 
 Parents, born, one at the rising of Aries, the other 
 
166 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 at the rising of Taurus, might beget Libra children. 
 In that event they would be very unlike their parents 
 in size of body, form of head, as well as in taste and 
 talents. But should the zodiacal forces, which rule 
 during gestation, say that of Libra, be deposed by a 
 stronger force, say Aquarius, a short time previous to 
 birth, the child would posses* the Libra form and 
 features for a while after birth, but eventually it would 
 change to the Aquarius form, and be radically dif- 
 ferent from what it would have been had it been -born 
 at the proper time. Then, instead of being tall and 
 slender, the child, when grown, would be stout and 
 shorter. 
 
 It is thought by some mothers, that if the child 
 be born short of the regular period, in casting the 
 horoscope it would be necessary for the astrologer to 
 understand that fact, in order to make the necessary 
 allowance for the difference in time, but such is not the 
 case. The time of birth, be it longer or shorter than 
 the allotted period for gestation, is all that is required. 
 The first breath ot life is the important moment to 
 observe, regardless of what it might have been. When 
 the sign rules uninterruptedly from conception till 
 birth, the growth is complete, the birth is natural, and 
 the form will develop to fill the description of the 
 ruling signs, which should be the case with every birth, 
 and will be when the laws, which govern human life, 
 are properly understood and observed in the reproduc- 
 tion of human life. 
 
 Hands. — Each of the celestial signs, when rising 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 167 
 
 at birth, produces hands peculiar to themselves, and 
 in many cases the rising sign may be known by the 
 form of the hand and the length of the fingers of the 
 subject; but owing to the varying of the combination 
 of the elements which compose the brain, this cannot 
 always be done. 
 
 Aries, when rising at birth, usually produces a 
 well formed hand, medium in length, smooth fingers, 
 though not tapering. Among the laboring classes the 
 hands are not so sym metrical as they are among students 
 and professional men, born at the rising of that sign. 
 The unemployment of the hands is not the cause of them 
 being small and shapely. It is the condition of the 
 brain which produced them. The sturdy laborer has 
 large, rough hands, not because he labors, but because 
 the brain which made him a laborer also gave him the 
 hands with which to do the work. 
 
 Taurus, when rising, produces a plump, fleshy 
 hand, rather short and broad, and usually the fingers 
 are smooth. 
 
 Gemini generally produces a long, slender hand, 
 with tapering fingers, bony and nimble. 
 
 Cancer produces a long, broad palm, which ex- 
 tends out between the fingers, thus producing the 
 appearance of webs. 
 
 Leo, when rising at birth, gives long hands, well 
 shaped fingers, and a narrow smooth palm. 
 
 Virgo gives a short, rough hand, w r ith knotty 
 fingers. 
 
 LiBRA-hands are long, slender, with tapering 
 tingers. 
 
168 ZODIACAL BRAIN. 
 
 Scorpio produces large, strong hands, not always 
 rough and bony, but many times they are. 
 
 Sagittarius gives a long, bony hand, but a short 
 palm. 
 
 Capricornus gives short, bony hands, usually 
 knotty fingers, but not always. 
 
 Aquarius produces a well shaped hand, long,, 
 smooth and tapering, medium sized palm, and some- 
 times it is broad. 
 
 Pisces gives a short, plump, fleshy hand and 
 fingers. 
 
 The following chapter will be devoted to explain- 
 ing the growth of planetary brain, or the mind pro- 
 ducing grey matter, which is formed after the child is 
 born. 
 
 1st. In so doing I must necessarily show that the 
 human mind as an entity, did not exist prior to birth r 
 nor prior to the additional growth of brain matter,, 
 which occurred after birth. 
 
 2nd. I shall conclusively show that the brain is 
 produced from the gases received from the celestial 
 bodies. 
 
 3rd. That the gases received from the planets 
 produce the grey matter, intelligence, and adds to or 
 detracts strength from the brain forces. 
 
 4th. That the strength of the mind depends (a) on 
 the size, (b) on the form, and (c) on the activity of 
 the bra ii. 
 
 5th. The small brain, however good, is not forcible.. 
 
 6th. A badly formed brain, however large, is not 
 forcible. 
 
ZODIACAL BRAIN. 169 
 
 7th. A large, well developed, inactive brain is not 
 forcible. 
 
 8th. That all of the foregoing conditions depend 
 on the local and relative positions of the planets at 
 the moment of birth, and their association after birth. 
 
 9th. I shall also show that the brain is composed 
 of chemical, as well as physical, divisions of gray 
 matter. 
 
 10th. That the mind is the result of a chemical 
 action of the brain, superinduced by electrical currents 
 from the planets. 
 
 11th. That the strength of currents, producing 
 this effect, depends on the position of the planet at 
 any given time. 
 
 12th. That when the chemical action ceases, mind 
 will then be no more. 
 
CHAPTER XX. 
 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 The growth of the planetary brain, its peculiar 
 formation, its divisions and subtle functions, embrace, 
 perhaps, the most perplexing part of the entire subject 
 now under discussion, and the one most difficult to 
 make clear to all, owing to the extreme intrincies 
 involved, and the unfamiliarity of the general reader 
 with the subject. But I will try to make it easy, by 
 abridging as much as possible, without obscuring the 
 ideas set forth, and yet indite enough to make clear 
 the theories advanced. The subject, however, is too 
 extensive to be fully embraced and clearly com- 
 prehended in a work of this size. The details are 
 too complicated to be fully brought out until the lead- 
 ing points become established as scientific facts. 
 Eventually the metaphysician will find the study of 
 the brain from this standpoint, not only interesting 
 and facsinating, but instructive in all of its details, 
 since he will find a reason for all things human. 
 The brain has never been properly studied for the 
 reason that it could not be reached by physical 
 analysis during life. In death, its functions having 
 ceased, the cells collapse, which places it in a very un- 
 fit condition to be studied, to say nothing about the 
 mutilations caused by the knife in dissecting it; there- 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 171 
 
 fore, the brain can only be successfully studied in 
 connection with the laws which produced it, which is 
 the author's method of analysis and synthesis. 
 
 In discussing the planetary brain, its physical 
 function, being the most important, must receive first 
 attention. The Zodiacal brain having been previously 
 discussed, it is now understood that the planetary 
 forces have no power, independent of the Zodiacal 
 brain, to create life, nor to construct brain matter,, 
 therefore the Zodiacal brain must be formed first, and 
 the planetary brain added to it after the birth takes 
 place. This additional growth of planetary matter 
 was and is necessary to assist the Zodiacal brain in 
 more perfectly performing its physical functions. The 
 addition of gray to the white matter after birth must 
 necessarily change the form of the brain from what it 
 was at birth, for the reason that all of the Zodiacal 
 brain centers of attraction could not be supplied with 
 an equal amount of planetary gases all the time, nor 
 could they all receive an equal supply at any given 
 time, because the planets could not hold positions 
 from which they could supply it; therefore they could 
 not all develop alike. Persons born at different hours 
 of the same day, are supplied with different combina- 
 tions of gases which are attracted to different centers 
 in respective brains, which is the reason they do not 
 always develop alike. It is impossible for nature to 
 create two brains just alike except they are born of 
 the same race of people, at the same place, at the same 
 time. 
 
172 PLANETARY 3RAIN. 
 
 The planetary brain is composed of two general 
 and many subdivisions. The two general, or to be 
 more explicit, the outer and inner layers oi planetary 
 matter which compose the cerebrum and cerebellum 
 will be explained now in a general way and later on 
 more specifically. 
 
 While forming, prior to birth, the zodiacal brain 
 has but little power to utilize planetary matter, but at 
 the moment of birth it suddenly becomes transform 
 into a very active magnet which is able to attract 
 planetary gases, with which to complete the growth of 
 the encephalon. I attribute this change to the fact 
 that the Zodiacal brain, prior to birth, must remain in 
 a passive condition, since it is only in an evolution- 
 ary state, and is being acted on by other forces, through 
 the agency of the mother. It. therefore, pooB C flfl C B 
 volition of its own: but so soon as it is fully developed 
 it is then born and becomes an independent power, 
 and able to create additional growth by attracting 
 planetary gases and transforming them into layers 
 gray matter. 
 
 It must be remembered, however, that all of the 
 twelve divisions of the Zodiacal brain cannot attract 
 planetary gases from the planets, only when they are 
 in certain positions at the moment of birth. Whes 
 the local positions of the planets are favorable fc 
 given division of the Zodiacal brain to attract their 
 >W8 v^ry large, and the increase' of plane- 
 tary brain is plainly visible in all heads, except tl 
 of idiots, for they cannot receive it for the reason : 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 173 
 
 the Zodiacal brain did not receive enough of the plane- 
 tary gases during gestation to magnetize it sufficiently 
 to awaken in it, at the moment of birth, the necessary 
 force of attraction for planetary gases, to produce a 
 healthy brain, therefore it remains as it was born. It 
 might not promote the friendship existing be- 
 tween yourself and the newly-made mother to tell her 
 that her child is an idiot, nevertheless such is the case, 
 and so it w r ould remain without the additional growth 
 of planetary brain. All children are born in that con- 
 dition — yet, after all, it is a well-known fact that all 
 newly-born infants arrive without intelligence, but the 
 mental condition of the child at birth is supposed to 
 be only in an undeveloped state, and, like new wine, 
 will improve with age, since the brain and mind are 
 supposed by some be be separate entities; and suscept- 
 ible of cultivation — a theory not easily explained, but 
 clear enough to be densely erroneous at best, for age 
 alone cannot give mental strength to any brain. If it 
 could, then all brains w r ould be equally active, since 
 they all have the same opportunity in that respect, to 
 gain strength; but it is plain that all of them do not 
 grow alike; on the contrary, no two of them develop 
 the same. Every degree of intelligence, from the phil- 
 osopher dow r n to the idiot, is shown in the human 
 family, and sometimes that difference is noticeable in 
 the same family. No two brains are ever found just 
 alike at birth, or ten years later, consequently there 
 must be some other reason than age or cultivation for 
 their difference in developments. 
 
174 PLANHTARY BRAIN 
 
 Th- I the newly-born infant are expression- 
 
 less: ttc t be gained in any way; all it 
 
 knows ifi to kick and cry. both of -which a full-grown 
 idiot can do. but a e g can do more 
 
 they can balance their bodies on their feet, run at 
 take food withou: mgtanee almost imme \fter 
 
 th. If a child should remain in the mental condi- 
 tion in which it is 1 and at birth, no one would Ma- 
 puto its idiocy. No mm he growth of the 
 brain. He only questions its conditions at the mo- 
 ment of birth, tor it if i all to be as per- 
 fectly organ: if fcer birth, 
 and all that is needed to perfect its developme: 
 time and food. Generally it red that the child 
 itfi nourishment from the food taken into the 
 stomach. Food, to produce 
 
 st children food equally nour 
 
 ing. but no ti same intellectually, th 
 
 fore a more potent reason muri 
 
 tiling facte. I: the li visions which produce the 
 mental faculties are wholly absent at the moment of 
 
 th, which they are. then what force in separate 
 9e them I - ke form, and thus pro- 
 duce different talents and traits of character, if not the 
 planets? They could not have inherited their pecu- 
 liarities since they were receivod after birth. They 
 not will the develops lissome, since they have 
 
 no power to choose, therefore no power : g vern the 
 .ey will U. ;ent for com- 
 
 ot that there is a code of laws which rules the 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 175 
 
 growth of the body, the form of the brain, gives power 
 to mind; produces the events of life, and determines 
 the destiny of the man. All clear-headed reasoners 
 realize these facts, though they may not understand 
 the laws which produce them; but all have witnessed 
 the results of the unseen forces of nature, and know 
 that they exist. It is this code of natural laws which 
 I am now going to explain. 
 
 Brain Layers. — The two layers of planetary brain, 
 now under discussion, are produced by the same plan- 
 ets, but under different circumstances. Both layers 
 affect the strength of the mind and body, but in differ- 
 ent ways. Neither layer, under any circumstance, 
 can be perfectly formed, but under very favorable cir- 
 cumstances both may be well formed, or one may be 
 well formed and the other very imperfectly formed, all 
 depending on the local and relative position of the 
 planets at the moment of birth. The first layer spoken 
 of is produced by the local position of the planets rela- 
 tive to a given point on the Earth. The second layer 
 is produced by the aspects of the planets to each other, 
 from the different positions of the heavens at the mo- 
 ment of birth. The latter is the outer layer, and ter- 
 minates in protuberances called phrenological organs. 
 The Zodiacal brain contair. s twelve chemical divisions 
 or centers. Each division has a distinct and impor- 
 tant function to perform in developing the intellectual 
 brain after birth. The frontal division attracts gases 
 from the eastern quarter of the heavens. If the birth 
 occurs in the absence of all of the nlanets from the 
 
176 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 eastern horizon, the frontal brain will be small. One 
 planet rising increases the size of the frontal brain 
 above the average by depositing one layer of gray 
 matter. Two planets rising at birth gives a greater 
 increase in the size and working power of the frontal 
 brain by forming the second layer; but when the birth 
 occurs at the rising of three planets, they produce im- 
 mense convolution of gray matter in front of the ears. 
 Three is the greatest number of planets I have ever 
 known to be rising at the birth of any person. [See 
 horoscopes of Grant, Garfield and Butler.] The upper 
 and rear portion of the brain attract gases from the 
 midheavens and develop the sub-layers of that portion 
 of the brain. The lower and rear part of the Zodiacal 
 brain attracts planetary gases from the western divi- 
 sion of the horoscope, and develops the sub-layer of 
 the domestic region. 
 
 The foregoing explains how the sub-brains are 
 formed. 
 
 Aspects. — On top of this sub-brain there are other 
 layers formed by a combination of gases, produced by 
 the many aspects of the various planets. For acute- 
 ness of mind and activity of body, the layers thus pro- 
 duced are more important than the sub-brain, for 
 without some of these combinations the body 
 would not be supple. The Zodiacal brain supplies 
 the nervous system with sufficient force to sustain life; 
 the sub-brain adds strength to it, and gives more 
 strength to the muscles, while the organic development 
 further lends strength and activity to the entire mus- 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 177 
 
 cular system, and gives control over the movement of 
 the body; therefore, the activity of the body is known 
 by the aspects of the planets at the time of birth. To 
 explain the power of the brain over the muscular ac- 
 tion of the body, I will present the following illustra- 
 tion: 
 
 Beginning with the lowest form of human life, or 
 state of absolute idiocy, or a life produced alone by 
 Zodiacal gases, no physical strength is manifested, even 
 at the age of twenty-one years, for the adult idiot is a 
 helpless mass of human flesh. He experiences no 
 events of life; he has no business ability, no matrimo- 
 nial inclinations, no vices, no virtues. Every day to 
 him is practically the same; but taking a higher form 
 of idiocy, when only a small amount of planetary mat- 
 ter is added to the Zodiacal brain. The child can 
 stand and walk and is not altogether helpless. He 
 has some control of his muscular action. Then take a 
 still higher form of the same malady. The boy can 
 run, play, and do some kinds of rough work, which 
 requires no dexterity of hand; but not in the least de- 
 gree is he mechanical. He only has a clumsy use of 
 his body and muscles. But as the planetary brain in- 
 creases in the healthy child its physical strength, activ- 
 ity, and mental power also, increase; but if there is any 
 difference between them the physical advances beyond 
 the mental powers. When the brain grows large 
 enough to produce organic developments, intelligence 
 is there manifested in gracefully directing the move- 
 ment of the body in motion. As the brain increases 
 
178 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 in size, the body increases in activity. Some men can 
 walk a tight-rope, lay lengthwise on it; again rise to 
 their feet, and even push a wheel barrow along in front 
 of them, and feel perfectly at ease on a single rope sus- 
 pended in midair, at a distance from the ground, that 
 some men could not reach on a long ladder without 
 fear of falling. Another can ride a bareback horse, 
 turn a somersault, jump through a hoop, alight in the 
 Droper place, at the proper time, to avoid accident. 
 The juggler too, will keep three or more knives in the 
 air, whirling around and around, catching them by 
 their points, tossing them again, without making a 
 mistake, losing a knife, or wounding his fingers, which, 
 however, is not the work of an idiot, but of one who 
 has time, weight and calculation well developed,which 
 gives prefect control of the muscular action, so that he 
 could always throw his knives with the same force, 
 watch their progress, and be ready to catch them when 
 they returned. If the knives were not thrown just so, 
 they would not return to the right point, at the right 
 time, to be caught when the operator is ready to re- 
 ceive them; but by being thrown with the same force, 
 they make the same revolutions in the same circuit, in 
 exactly the same time, and thus reach the right point 
 to meet the nimble fingers of the juggler. The dancer, 
 too, can make his feet follow the figures of the dance 
 in the waltz, quadrille, or the clog, and keep perfect 
 time with the music, and so may many other unusual 
 feats be performed by certain individuals who possess 
 the necessary brain development for that purpose, but 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 179 
 
 not by the clumsy feet nor the unskilled hand of the 
 undeveloped brain. The combination of the Sun, 
 Mars and Mercurial elements are necessary at the time 
 of birth to produce the proper developments to give 
 power over a special set of muscles for that purpose. 
 
 The sub-divisions, or mental organs at the outer 
 corner of the eyes, are some of the points necessary to 
 be developed to give such perfect use of the necessary 
 muscles. It is plain then that the office of these men- 
 tal organs is to control certain sets of muscles, by sup- 
 ply in g them with brain force, and also to direct the move- 
 ments of the body w r hen set in motion. When large, 
 these organs create an abundant supply of brain force 
 for the purpose, and dispatch it to the muscles when 
 desired, thus supplying them with power to continue 
 in action for a given length of time. The muscles can 
 be compelled to obey the will just so long as the brain 
 can obtain stellar forces in sufficient quantities, and 
 supply them with that fluid. After a time the dancer 
 becomes exhausted, because the brain force is insuffi- 
 cient to sustain the action of the muscles; while the 
 breath grows short and quick, because of the desperate 
 effort of the lungs to obtain enough stellar force to 
 sustain the brain in its laborious work, after supplying 
 the muscles with the necessary power to do their work. 
 It will be noticed that the brain becomes wearied first, 
 and at the same time confused in following the figures 
 of the dance. It is then the feet begin to fail in the 
 performance of their task, and refuse to perfectly exe- 
 cute their work, and finally get out of time, blunder 
 
180 PLANETARY BRAIN 
 
 and break clown. In order to control the feet through 
 the figures of the dance, they must have intelligent di- 
 rectors to mentally outline every line, curve and circle, 
 through which they must pass. These directors can 
 be no other than the divisions of the brain which sup- 
 ply the electric force that operates the muscles which 
 control the legs and feet of the dancer, the rope-walker, 
 and the hands of the juggler. In proportion to the 
 size and activity of the sub-divisions which supply the 
 fluid to any given set of muscles, will they obey the 
 will of the performer for a longer or shorter time. The 
 smaller the organs the less force they supply to the 
 muscles, consequently the less perfect will they control 
 the feet, in the execution of the dance, and the dimmer 
 will be the intellectual lights they shed; therefore, the 
 less accurate will be the forms outlined by the mental 
 directors. The feet cannot better perform than the 
 mind can direct. No matter how large the organs may 
 be, their power is limited, since they can only receive 
 and supply a certain amount of fluid in a given time, 
 which will last a longer or shorter period according to 
 the way in which it is expended. If exhausted by 
 rapid and violent exercise, the time will be much 
 shorter than though the exercise was moderate; but 
 when the cells fail, the vital fluid becomes exhausted, 
 and the brain can supply no more, the thoughts grow 
 dim, and the muscles fail to perfectly perform their 
 work, when the feet grow clumsy and rest is demanded 
 that the cells may recuperate their lost powers. 
 
 If the brain can create lines, curves, and circles, 
 for the feet to follow in the dance, the hands of the 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 181 
 
 juggler to trace in his performance, it can also create 
 lines, curves and circles, without making any physical 
 demonstration whatever, because thought can flow, 
 without connecting any branch of the nervous system 
 with any sub-division of the brain. It was the play 
 of electric lights from the above named organs which 
 gave to man his power to invent, combine numbers, in 
 producing arithmetical forms, higher mathematics and 
 architectural designs. 
 
 The foregoing are some of the results wrought in 
 the human brain by planetary forces, and plainly show 
 that the first duty of the brain is to perform a physical 
 office, which is shown in the fact that all animals have 
 the use of their bodies, however weak their minds may 
 be, and it is a noticeable fact that the less control the 
 animal has over the movements of the body, the 
 weaker is its intellect. But the brain rules the actions 
 of the body of all life, regardless of its intelligence. 
 
 The second duty of the brain is to create mental 
 functions, if they are not simultaneous in their actions. 
 The action of the brain cannot cease; it must continue 
 active from birth till death, asleep or awake, which 
 condition can only be sustained by continually receiv- 
 ing a fresh supply of vital fluid from the atmosphere 
 by breathing. Even after the cells are full to over- 
 flowing, the same sources of supply must continue, 
 which would be impossible unless there were some 
 means by which the accummulated forces could escape 
 when the muscles were at rest; but Nature provided 
 for that necessity by allowing the brain to exhaust the 
 
182 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 accummulated physical forces in mental action inde- 
 pendently of the physical efforts of the body. The brain 
 could not, like the physical dynamo, shut off its entire 
 energies and resume them at pleasure, and go on as 
 before, for it could not have life again infused into its 
 cells, hence the necessity of keeping them in action 
 and also disconnected from the nervous system, except 
 when desired. The connection between the brain and 
 nervous system is made by a mental effort of some one 
 of the twelve Zodiacal divisions. The connection is 
 made for the purpose of conveying the brain force to 
 the set of muscles to be operated. The medulla ob- 
 longata being composed of a multiplicity of nerves, it 
 is evident that it has a very complicated and import- 
 ant office to perform. This office I shall compare to 
 the central telegraph office, which connects the entire 
 system of wires, so that a wire from any part of the 
 country may be connected to a wire leading to any lo- 
 cality desired, and a dispatch sent. Then the connec- 
 tion is broken, and, if desired, connection with another 
 wire is made, and so on till all of the wires in the of- 
 fice are used. So the n>edulla oblongatta connects the 
 sub-divisions of the brain to the desired branch of the 
 nervous system. In this way any muscles of the body 
 may be reached by any sub-division of the brain, and 
 brought in to play by a force of the will or an effort of 
 that sub-division. Such, I believe to be, the office of the 
 medulla oblongatta and the method employed by the 
 brain in controlling the muscular system. After the 
 dispatch is sent, the force is expended, the connection 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 183 
 
 is broken, and the muscles released until further used. 
 The foregoing is the solution I have for the problem, 
 and the following explanation will reveal my reason 
 for entertaining it: If the brain was permanently 
 connected with the entire nervous system, the flow of 
 brain force over the nerves would be constant, there- 
 fore the muscles would be kept continually in motion, 
 and there would be no rest, day or night; for each sub- 
 division would alternately send a dispatch over the 
 nerves, and thus keep some of them active all of the 
 time. But, as it is, there is no connection without an 
 effort of the sub-division of the brain, which sends the 
 dispatch. Any and all branches of the nervous sys- 
 tem can be connected to any given sub-division of the 
 brain at will, which is shown in physical action. A 
 single sub-division of the brain may be connected 
 with one-half of the entire nervous system, which is 
 proven in the act of controlling the body by the organ 
 of time. The force from that sub-division can keep 
 the legs, arms, and the entire body in perfect time 
 with the music. That all parts of the body have full 
 connection with the brain is further evinced by the 
 development of the hands, which have been discovered 
 as indices of the brain, are caused by the development 
 of the muscles which are produced by the branches of 
 the nervous system which develop the hands. It is 
 true that each sub-division supplies its part of the 
 matter for developing the hand, since the muscles are 
 thrown up and make certain developments according 
 to the force sent from the brain, and thus createsg 
 
184 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 mounts, lines, and other marks, which are indices of 
 brain power. It further appears that the muscles de- 
 velop in layers, and that each sub-division produces 
 its own layer. If they are well developed and strong, 
 the layers are many, and the hand is well developed 
 and highly marked with lines, stars, crosses, and other 
 symbols of mental strength; but if the mounts are ab- 
 sent, and the palm is badly marked, the hand indicates 
 a badly organized and weak brain, incapable of great- 
 effort or business success. If there were no connection 
 between the brain and the hand by the nervous sys- 
 tem, there could be no indication in the latter of the 
 strength of the former. If the nerves do not form the 
 muscles of the hand, there can be no active connection 
 between the brain and that member. The 
 connection of the brain w r ith the pedal extremities is 
 just as perfect as that of the hands; but the muscular 
 development of the feet is very different and requires a 
 special study. The brain of an infant is proportion- 
 ately large, and supplies a superabundance of brain 
 force, which causes the mind of the healthy child to be 
 very active, and also keeps its muscles active; there- 
 fore, the body is in a constant state of unrest. This is 
 w T hy educators say that activity is a law of childhood. 
 As the brain increases in strength, it is thereby enabled 
 to throw out its force, feed the nerves, extend them a 
 little farther on, and thus produce growth each day. 
 When the nerves have reached the full lengthy the 
 braiii has power to extend them, the mind becomes 
 less active, because the full force of the brain is re- 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 18ft 
 
 quired to sustain the body it has created, and restore 
 the broken down tissue that is continually wasting; 
 away. Thus the planetary brain assists the Zodiacal 
 brain, in producing growth and muscular develop- 
 ment. 
 
 The Zodiacal brain, having a permanent connec- 
 tion with the nervous system, it is constantly supply- 
 ing a mild flow of vital fluids to the entire body in suf- 
 ficient quantities to restore to the muscular cells their 
 exhausted vital energies, and thus keep up the repairs 
 of the body, without producing any visible effect on 
 the muscular system while it is in a state of rest. That 
 the Zodiacal brain does produce this office is show T n in 
 the case of idiots, their muscles being very inactive for 
 the want of planetary brain to supply the necessary 
 current of force to give them strength and activity. 
 The Zodiacal brain also supplies the necessary forces 
 to the vital organs to sustain them in their labors, 
 without any assistance of the gray matter. Should 
 the Zodiacal brain become detached from the nervous 
 system death would instantly follow, which is the rea- 
 son that the central portion of the brain is more vital 
 than the outer layers. Any disturbance of the medulla 
 oblongata will cause instant death, because the break- 
 ing down of its fibrous work shuts off the supply of 
 brain force from the vital organs, when the whole ma- 
 chinery of the body stops. 
 
 There are two hemisheres of the brain, each posses- 
 sing the same number of like sub-divisions, which per- 
 form like physical functions, so that each side of the 
 
186 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 body may be controlled by separate divisions of the 
 brain, which make both sides work in harmony togeth- 
 er. The nerves, sent out from the right side of the 
 brain, cross over to the left side of the body, and each 
 half of the brain creates and controls the opposite 
 half of the body, which gives balance and poise to the 
 entire body. By this arrangement of the brain, one or 
 both sides of the body may be put in motion at the 
 same time, without interfering with each other. Where 
 the organs of time, which control the regularity of the 
 movements of the body, are developed the same on 
 both sides of the forehead, then each supplies force to 
 its side of the body. If these organs are well devel- 
 oped, then it will control the actions of the muscles in 
 any way desired. Thus it can be seen that the body 
 is double, and is composed of two distinct organisms, 
 which is further known from the fact that each side of 
 the brain produces its side of the body, which gives 
 pairs instead of single organs and members. 
 
 On each side there is one eye, one ear, one nostril, 
 one leg, and one arm. The mouth is also double, it 
 having the opposite half of each jaw like the other; 
 the teeth are formed in pairs; the tongue, split length- 
 wise in the centre, would produce two halves exactly 
 alike. The dual organism of the body is further 
 evinced in the internal organs, for there are two lungs, 
 livers, kidneys, and a double heart; other internal de- 
 velopments might also be classified in pairs. If both 
 arms depended on a single sub-division of the brain 
 for its motive power, only one could work at a time, 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 187 
 
 and the other must remain at rest; but, since each is 
 ruled by a separate sub-division, both can work at the 
 same time without interfering with the other; for each 
 also has its own mental director to control its every 
 movement. To all outward appearances the phreno- 
 logical organs and the following named physical divi- 
 sions, cerebrum, cerebellum, and the medulla oblonga- 
 ta, number all of the mechanical divisions of the brain,, 
 or those that have special functions to perform. 
 
 Had not Dr. Mayer, an eminent chemist quoted 
 by Dr. Flint in his late work on physiology, by a very 
 careful analysis discovered seven layers of brain mat- 
 ter, it might be a difficult task to convince the general 
 reader, and perhaps would not be a safe experiment to 
 inform the physiologist, that a greater number of lay- 
 ers yet exist to be discovered in the same way before 
 the doctors are familiar with that marvelously con- 
 structed organ. These layers cannot be traced out by 
 the unassisted eye of the most astute anatomist. It 
 must be aided by the finest instruments known to the 
 profession. And, even then, they cannot be discovered 
 by any plodder. These important discoveries, made 
 by Dr. Mayer, were wholly due, he claims, to the pecu- 
 liar form of the cells which compose each layer, but 
 why they were thus formed the doctor did not deem it 
 necessary to inform his co-workers. hi making this 
 discovery Dr. Mayer added another feather to his own 
 plume, and innocently won a brilliant victory for as- 
 trology and spontaneous production. 
 
 Chemical Divisions. — I will cite the reader to the 
 
188 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 more subtile divisions of the brain, and discuss their 
 forces and functions as they are manifested in life. At 
 one time this would have been a very unpleasant task 
 to perform, since there was no evidence to support any 
 statement which might be made concerning the exist- 
 ing layers of brain matter; but since the w r onderful 
 discovery by analysis has been made by Dr. Mayer, I 
 can now proceed with more confidence in my effort to 
 establish the fact that many more than seven layers 
 exist, and moreover, I shall do what the learned doc- 
 tor, however wise and expert he might be in his pro- 
 fession, could not do, and that is to explain how the 
 chemical layers were produced, and also explain their 
 functions which have never been understood. 
 
 Brain Layers. — If their were no planets to affect 
 the Zodiacal brain, then each division of the heavens 
 would produce the same effect on all brains born at 
 the rising of any given division of the Zodiacal belt, 
 but since there is a marked difference in all persons 
 born at the rising of the Zodiacal division, as the fol- 
 lowing will explain: 
 
 The motion of the earth on its axis is necessary, in 
 order that the planetary gases may be supplied to the 
 Zodiacal brain after birth, so that the sub-divisions 
 may be produced, and also the layers thereof; for the 
 sub-divisions are composed of layers of brain matter. 
 The first day after birth the nucleus of the first layer 
 of each sub-division is formed. The second day after 
 birth the second nucleus of the second layer in each 
 sub-division is formed. The third day the third nu- 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 189 
 
 cleus is formed. And so on till the whole nuclei are 
 formed, which are to create all the layers of brain 
 matter, after which growth is added to each nucleus 
 until the brain is perfectly developed. The number of 
 layers of brain matter thus formed cannot be known; 
 however, there are as many layers as there are years 
 of life; but how many more cannot be told. It is sin- 
 gular, but true, that each layer of brain matter above 
 described has a vital effect upon the working power of 
 the Zodiacal brain which they affect the most, for each 
 sub-division of the brain does not affect all of the Zo- 
 diacal divisions. The Zodiacal division which creates 
 any given sub-divisions and their layers are alone af- 
 fected by them. The strength of the sub-divisions and 
 their layers are known by the positions and aspects of 
 the planets which produce them. These layers produce 
 the events of life, and cause them to occur at stated 
 periods. The brain layers cannot all work at the 
 same time, but each must take its turn in the execu- 
 tive department of life, and dispense the vital forces of 
 the brain for twelve months, after which time its physi- 
 cal functions are never again required for that purpose. 
 Each layer, however, must retain the record of all the 
 events that occur during its reign of twelve months, as 
 business events, sickness, accidents, births, deaths, etc., 
 and be able to reproduce them when called upon to do 
 so, which act of the brain is called memory. 
 
 That a single layer of the brain rules the events of 
 a single year of life is known from the fact that a child 
 could not live if the layers must all work at the same 
 
190 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 time, because they are not formed at birth, and there- 
 fore cannot all be present in a newly born infant's 
 skull. In fact, the nuclei are not all formed short of 
 ninety days after birth, and even then none of them 
 are perfectly grown. The organization of the first 
 layer determine the events of the first year of life. The 
 organization of the second layer, determines the events 
 of the second year. The third layer the events of the 
 third year of life, and so on. The tenth layer the tenth 
 year, the twentieth layer the twentieth year, on to the 
 close of life. The positions of the respective planets 
 and their aspects to one another each day, after birth, 
 determines the mental and physical quality of the 
 layers of matter they produce; for no two of them are 
 constructed just alike, owing to the planets changing 
 theis local and relative positions, thus daily and hourly 
 forming new aspects, and supplying new combinations 
 of gases for the construction of brain layers. Each 
 layer thus produced is strong or weak according to the 
 chemical combination composing the nuclei. If the 
 combination is harmonious, then the nucleus formed 
 will produce good results, and a year of good events 
 will be produced by that layer during its reign. In 
 order to know the quality and the character of events 
 they will produce, and the time when they will occur, 
 it is only necessary to know the positions of the vari- 
 ous planets on the day the nucleus was formed, and 
 the character of the planets which produced it, or them. 
 Chemical Layers.— The Moon moves faster than 
 the Sun or any of the planets; consequently in passing 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN. 191 
 
 around through all of the divisions of the Zodiac, she 
 must pass all of the planets before completing her re- 
 volutions around the Earth. When passing the benefic 
 planets, they produce good combinations of gases 
 which the Zodiacal brain attract, and utilizes, for be- 
 nefic purposes, in forming the nucleus which will 
 later on develop into a layer of gray matter. While 
 the Moon is passing evil planets, their nuclei which 
 will produce evil results will be formed. The gases 
 from the Moon and Jupiter are harmonious, and when 
 those two bodies are joined together, or are forming 
 harmonious aspects, the Zodiacal brain will attract 
 their gases and produce strong, active, and health-pro- 
 ducing layers, with business producing forces, journeys, 
 gifts and social reunions. 
 
 When she passes Venus, the combinations of gases 
 thus supplied to the Zodiacal brain is utilized in pro- 
 ducing a layer of matter which will bring new friends, 
 introductions, social advantages and marriage. 
 
 When the Moon passes Saturn, the combinations 
 of gases from those bodies produces a badly organized 
 nucleus, and brain cells that store up malefic forces, 
 which produce unfavorable events in the years corres- 
 ponding with the number of days in which they were 
 produced, as ill health, accidents, losses, disputes and 
 law suits. Should the Moon pass two planets in a 
 single day, the layers of brain matter so formed will 
 not be mixed, but they will produce a mixture of events 
 during the year corresponding with the day on which 
 it was formed. Should she pass Mars and Jupiter on 
 
192 PLANETARY BRAIN. 
 
 the thirtieth day after birth, then, during the thirtieth 
 year of life, severe sickness, would be followed by suc- 
 cess in business, gifts, or legacies. 
 
 The above described motions of the Moon are 
 called directions. They are of short duration, and 
 last but a few months. There are other directions which 
 last much longer, consequently much more severe. 
 
 The apparent motion of the Sun is much slower 
 than that of the moon, but faster than Mars, Jupiter, 
 Saturn or Uranus; therefore in the course of time he 
 must pass all of them. He requires eight or ten days 
 to pass either of them. These days represent the 
 years when the events will occur. The direction of 
 the Sun to Saturn causes a depression of spirits, a low 
 ebb of life, sometimes ill health, heavy losses, and even 
 death, may occur, during the evil transits of the male- 
 fic planets. The Sun passing Jupiter brings successes 
 for eight or ten years, and especially when Jupiter is 
 making favorable transits during this time. Any of 
 these directions may occur, early, in middle, or late 
 in life, all depending on the positions af the planets at 
 the time of birth. 
 
 Should the evil direction occur at thirty, forty-five, 
 or sixty years of age, unless the horoscope is very 
 strong, heavy losses, serious sickness, or death, will 
 follow, because the brain is only a dynamo which is 
 kept active by the stellar and planetary forces. By 
 the planets changing their positions in the heavens, 
 these forces will increase and also diminish in their 
 effect in this human dynamo. 
 
PLANETARY BRAIN 193 
 
 The Zodiacal brain has power to create only so 
 many layers of planetary matter. When that is done 
 the growth is complete. The farther the layers extend 
 from the central brain, the less vitality they possess, 
 till finally it runs out altogether. No matter how vital 
 they may be near the center of the brain, they grow 
 weaker, as they recede from that point, until they are 
 able to sustain life no longer, when the mental dynamo 
 stops. Even when the full length of the golden thread 
 is reeled off, life cannot extend very far beyond the 
 century mark. 
 
 Some brains are more vital than others, owing to 
 the very favorable maternal and planetary conditions 
 which organized them, and will live much longer than 
 those less fortunate, but even their years are num- 
 bered. 
 
 Thus, by studying the laws of nature, facts are 
 snatched from the realm of mystery and the ignorance 
 and folly of man is made plain; his duty clearly 
 pointed out; his relation and responsibilities to his 
 fellows permanently established, and the justice of 
 nature extolled. It further proves that the "sins of 
 the father" need not be entailed upon the second, 
 much less the third, generation; tor, as a child is born, 
 so will it be; "as the tree falls so it shall lie." 
 
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CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 LAW STILL IN FORCE. 
 
 It seems never to have occurred to evolutionists 
 that the laws which produced man in the beginning, 
 are just as necessary to perpetuate his existence now 
 as they were to create him originally, or they would 
 not so persistently dwell on hereditary influences, 
 parental causes and social environments to explain 
 mental and physical effects. How easy it is to believe, 
 that after nature produced man, she withdrew her 
 forces, and left him in his feeble condition to battle 
 with the elements, animal ferocity, and his own, 
 the most unkind of all, and thus make the most of 
 his very unfavorable surroundings and even claim for 
 him the right, and insist on him exercising the power 
 of free agency. But how they have veered from the 
 direct course of facts. Instead of nature withdrawing 
 her forces, she continues to exercise her power with 
 the same unabated energy as before, and still the work 
 of reproduction goes on, the same as the original pro- 
 cess of production, only in a slightly different way. 
 Man thinks he is responsible for the existence of his 
 species. He does not realize that he is a creature of 
 law, and has no more to do with perpetuating his kind 
 than he has with producing a tape worm. His repro- 
 ductive functions, which nature gave him at the be- 
 
LAW STILL IN FORCE. 195 
 
 ginning of his life, is simply to preserve the original 
 condition which she established at the time the first 
 human pair were incubated, and she does the rest. 
 If she withholds the seed from woman, or the fructi- 
 fying forces from man, they possess no power to gene- 
 rate life; but if nature imparts the necessary conditions, 
 then children or tape worms may be produced. The 
 only rejoinder to be brought against this argument is 
 that there are more children than tape worms brought 
 to light, and that the worms appear without an effort 
 on the part of the producer. 
 
 The animal heat of the mother supplies the germ 
 with the necessary warmth, which the earth originally 
 supplied to the protoplasm, while the male supplies 
 the fructifying forces which the planets originally sup- 
 plied to the protoplasm to awaken in the ovum the 
 sense of attraction for stellar gases, and thus is life 
 generated. But the magnets thus created, not being 
 in a position to attract directly from the atmosphere 
 the stellar elements, as the egg does, or the protoplasm 
 did, they must necessarily obtain them through the 
 mother's organism, by adhering to the walls of the 
 germ recepticle, and there absorb the necessary ele- 
 ments from the mother's brain and blood. Finally, 
 after weeks and months of growth, the new life was 
 thrust upon the world. 
 
 Why Children differ from each other and 
 their Parents.— At conception the ovum contains all 
 the elements belonging to both parents at that time. 
 But the blood or the brain of the parents never possess 
 
196 LAW STILL IN FORCE. 
 
 exactly the same combination of stellar elements 
 which they had at the moment of birth, for the 
 reason that their respective divisions of the brain 
 cannot collect the same combination of gases all the 
 time, owing to the different positions occupied by the 
 ever changing planets at different times; therefore, 
 they cannot supply the original combination to the 
 embrio at, nor after, conception takes place, hence the 
 difference. The laws of nature, and not the develop- 
 ment of the parental brain, only to a limited extent, 
 determines just what combination of gases the embrio 
 shall receive at any given time; but, since the planets 
 were holding a different position at the conception of 
 the child from what they were at the time of birth of 
 the parents, it must necessarily differ from them as 
 much as the combination of elements which compose 
 them differ from those which compose it. The quality 
 of the parental brain has something to do with govern- 
 ing the time of conception, consequently with the time 
 of birth, under the following circumstances: The 
 mother who has a large well developed brain when 
 under favorable planetary influences, will not con- 
 ceive until the planets are in good position to produce 
 good results, hence good children are born to her. 
 Conception at such a time is due to the fact that at 
 some previous time a vital ovum was formed out of a 
 good combination of gases, and therefore would not 
 impregnate until it received the required combination 
 to elements to produce a certain effect in the child. 
 Then, after conception, the mother being under 
 
LAW STILL IN FORCE. 197 
 
 the influence of the benefic planets, they continue to 
 supply their gases while the embrio evolves until it 
 develops into a strong healthy child. Another ovum, 
 formed at a different time out of another combination 
 of gases, would require different influences to produce 
 impregnation. There is no denying a tendency toward 
 heredity, but it is only a tendency and not a law. If 
 it were possible, nature would occasionally develop in 
 the child the counterpart of one of the parents; but 
 she never does. But what is more puzzling to the 
 casual observer is that no two children are just alike. 
 Even twins are different; but if born very near the 
 same moment, they are very much alike, if of the same 
 sex. In that case, they would be very unlike in ap- 
 pearance and the events of life. When the sex is the 
 same their events are generally the same. In three 
 cases have I known twins to die at the same time. 
 1st, by drowning, 2nd, by the same bullet, which 
 passed through their bodies while standing near to- 
 gether, and the third from disease. I have read of 
 twin sisters marrying twin brothers, and of twin 
 brothers marying at the same time. 
 
 The visible cause of children resembling and dif- 
 fering from their parents in form, features, and events 
 of life, is due to the Zodiacal and planetary laws, and 
 explained as follows: 
 
 A father, who was born at the rising of the sign 
 
 Leo, would be large and light complexioned. Should 
 
 he have a son born at the rising of the same sign, the 
 
 on would resemble the father in personal appearance r 
 
198 LAW STILL IN FORCE. 
 
 but not in mental qualities. Such a birth might easily 
 occur, since the sign Leo rises once a day. 
 
 Again, a father might be born at the rising of the 
 Sun in the sign Leo, which would make him large, 
 light complexioned, with light curling hair, with large 
 bones and a strong frame. As the sun rises in Leo, 
 from July 24 till Aug. 24, a child might be born to 
 this father during that period of any year. In that 
 event the child would resemble his father. In so far 
 as the influence of the Sun could effect the develop- 
 ment of the brain, he would be like his father; but if 
 born at other hours, the child might not resemble the 
 father at all. A father might be born at the rising of 
 the planet Jupiter, in the sign Gemini. Jupiter re- 
 quires twelve months to transit through that sign, 
 which occurs once in twelve years. Then, if a child 
 is born to that father, during his 24, 36, 48, or 60 years, 
 at the rising of that division it would resemble him in 
 personal appearance, but they might widely differ 
 otherwise; for. as the position and their aspects of the 
 planets differ in their respective horoscopes, just in 
 that particular would their brains differ in their de- 
 velopment and mental activity. The influence of the 
 Moon at the time of birth has a great deal to do with 
 forming character. If she was very weak, by her posi- 
 tion and aspect to other planets, at the birth of the 
 father, she might also be weak in the horoscope of the 
 child. Her motion is very rapid therefore, by nature 
 hastening or retarding the birth a few days to accom- 
 modate the hereditary influences so that the child could 
 
LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 199 
 
 be born when the Moon was in a similar condition as 
 when the sire was born; consequently the child would 
 be much like its sire in that particular. 
 
 Children resemble their parents, because they are 
 born at the rising of the same Zodiacal sign, and that 
 some of the planetary influences are the same in their 
 respective horoscopes. All persons who are born at 
 the rising of Leo, or any other sign, resemble in per- 
 sonal appearance, and sometimes we find them so 
 nearly alike that they might be taken for twins in- 
 stead of strangers. This is the reason we sometimes 
 see such a marked similarity existing between strangers 
 and why we can see in every town some one who re- 
 minds us of friends or acquaintances of former days 
 in distant places. 
 
 A mother might be born at the rising of the sign 
 Libra and have one or more daughters born at the 
 rising of the same sign. In that case they would all 
 markedly resemble each other. 
 
 If given parents were born when benefic planets 
 Jupiter, Venus, or the Moon, were in the midheaven, 
 they would be very fortunate in business matters con- 
 nected with the general public; and also in their social 
 relations, should a child be born to them at a time 
 when one or more of the benefic planets were in the 
 midheavens. In its horoscope it would resemble its 
 parents in the foregoing particular, and, like them, 
 would be very fortunate in business matters and in 
 social relations. 
 
 Now, while the midheavens in the horoscope of 
 
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 LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 
 
 the parent is strongly fortified by benefic planets, let 
 us suppose that the seventh house of the horoscope 
 which rules their marriage, was badly afflicted by 
 Saturn. In that event they would be very unhappy 
 in their domestic relations: this would be as strong a 
 point for evil as the other is for good. 
 
 Now. supposing the mother should come under 
 malefic planetary influences some months prior to the 
 birth of another child, the forces thus received would 
 produce an evil effect in it, and would cause the worst 
 elements in the parents to develop in the child, which 
 is the domestic nature. When the day arrives for the 
 birth to take place, nature has designed that the house 
 of marriage in the horoscope should resemble that of 
 the parents, therefore the hour of birth is postponed 
 until the Earth has reached a point which will place 
 one or more malefic planets in the seventh houses of 
 the child's horoscope; consequently, the domestic or- 
 gans will remain undeveloped, and the child, in his 
 later years, will be very unhappy in his domestic rela- 
 tions. Again, supposing that while nature is selecting 
 a lime, which will make marriage very unfavorable for 
 the child, it is not necessary, according to heredity, 
 that the division of the brain which rules the social 
 and business successes should remain undeveloped; 
 but nature, in selecting the hour to produce the neces- 
 sary afflictions in the seventh house, it so happened 
 that Mars must be elevated to the tenth house, from 
 which nosition he causes losses and troubles and a 
 want of enterprise and public spirit; consequently, he 
 
LAWS STILL IN FORCE. 201 
 
 would not only be unfortunate in marriage, but in 
 business also. His friends would think he inheri 
 
 his domestic troubles, but they might have to go back 
 a generation, or so, to explain the cause of his business 
 
 failure. In another child, when the influences con- 
 troling the mother were favorable and the inherent 
 forces were trying to create strong public tendencies in 
 the child, it might be, in order to do so, that the benefic 
 planets would fall in the seventh house. In that case 
 the child, contrary to parental forces, would be fortu- 
 nate in his domestic affairs. Again, supposing a very 
 ordinary couple should come under very powerful 
 benefic planetary influences, which they sometimes do, 
 and during which time a son is born. In such a case 
 nature would select the most favorable hour of the day 
 for the birth of the child, and the result would be a 
 superior brain-development, not necessarily like its 
 father, mother or any of its ancestors, but perhaps 
 superior to any of them, which in some instances is 
 the case. 
 
 No matter how brilliant the parents may be, they 
 cannot produce healthy, happy, fortunate children 
 when under the influence of malefic planets, since they 
 have no power to impart their natural talents to their 
 offspring; they can only transmit that which they re- 
 ceive from the planets during gestation, the forces 
 simply pass through the brain, over the nervous 
 system and out through the pores of the skin. Nature 
 can usually select an hour for the birth when the 
 planets can produce a child much like its father or 
 
202 I.AWS STIIX IN FORCE. 
 
 mother, but never exactly like either of them. Thus 
 it can be seen that the physical tendencies may be to 
 reproduce parental talents and traits of character, but 
 when the heavenly hosts are arrayed against it, blood 
 will not tell. 
 
 Great mental powers do not indicate great re- 
 productive powers. If any difference exists, the re- 
 verse is the case. If the quality of the offspring or 
 the entire absence of children from the homes of noted 
 men and women is any evidence, there is enough 
 to prove that assertion. Where are the descendants 
 of the great warriors, Alexander, Cromwell, Napoleon, 
 Wellington, Lafayette, Jackson, Grant and Lee. 
 Orators — Webster, Douglass, Thacl Stevens and Henry 
 Clay. Authors — Shakespeare, Byron, Longfellow, 
 Bryant, Dickens. Philosophers — Ptolemy, Coperna- 
 cus, Kepler, Newton. Inventors — Stevenson, Fulton, 
 Hoe, Whitney, McCormic, Morse, Howe and Good- 
 year. Reformers — Luther, Pain, Bennet, Darwin, 
 Kant and Voltaire. Preachers — Even the saintly 
 mouthpieces of "Jehova" show no better results in re- 
 generation. What can be said for the offsprings of 
 Penn, Cotton, Matthew, Peter Cartwright, Surgeon, 
 and the famous Beecher family. Queen Victoria is a 
 famous woman but an unvenerable mother. Teny- 
 son's mantle did not fall on the shoulders of any of 
 his progeny. Fields left children to disgrace his 
 name. 
 
 Again, where are the ancestors of the famous men 
 and women; they cannot be traced back to pinicles of 
 
LAWS STILL IX FORCE. 203 
 
 rhen, for what is all this : ancestorial 
 
 blood, royai strains or evolution? It is a healthy, lung 
 exercise, but nothing more. It is neither scientific, 
 philosophical Dor true. Children may be inferior to 
 their parents, but they are always equal to the laws of 
 their creation, or they may be superior to their parents, 
 but never superior to the laws which created them; 
 they are only superior to the incubator which pro- 
 tected them during their evolution from the ovum to 
 human life. But may the good stars ever shine on 
 that animated machine. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 NATURAL LAWS. 
 
 The forces which rule the universe are familiarly 
 called Natural Laws, and notwithstanding the famili- 
 arity of men with them, nevertheless they are strangers 
 conversing with scientists in unknown tongues. These 
 laws embrace all the forces which produce the many 
 aspects observed in nature. When a strange pheno- 
 mona appears in any one of the three kingdoms, it is 
 said by scientists to be the result of a natural law; 
 w r hich explanation is satisfactory to all. But so far 
 as they have yet been able to enlighten the world 
 they only know the laws by their effects, for they can- 
 not tell what will be the character of the next 
 phenomona produced by the same laws. 
 
 It has been said that fools can find effects where 
 philosophers fail to explain causes. Nevertheless, 
 causes exist, and the only way to discover them is to 
 diligently search for them, and not refuse to look be- 
 cause some one laughs. They can laugh, but fools 
 never patent inventions, discover obscure facts nor 
 apply great principles, yet who will deny that the 
 laughing, sneering public does not to a marked degree 
 rule the scientific world? When the time comes that 
 the "common herd" will laugh at all men who do not 
 believe in Astrology, than every man holding a 
 
NATURAL LAWS. 205 
 
 public position of importance, will subscribe for 
 the leading Astrological journal, and proudly tell 
 how often they have had their horoscopes read. 
 The Poet Lowell wrote: 
 
 Truth forever on the scaffold, 
 Wrong forever on the throne. 
 But that scaffold weighs the future. 
 
 Physical Endurance of Atoms. — Atoms of mat- 
 ter, like their combinations which enter into the 
 structure of the human body, can only work for a 
 limited time in maintaining the physical structure 
 when their vitality becomes exhausted; they are re- 
 leased from their duties, and other atoms take their 
 places at the proper time to sustain the physical or- 
 ganism. The deserting atoms at once become negative 
 forces and doubtless return to the place of their origin 
 to recuperate their lost energy, for matter never dies. 
 The loss of energy may be accounted for by a separa- 
 tion of their component elements under those peculiar 
 conditions, but glasses are not yet strong enough to 
 reveal all of the excentricities of gases, each of which 
 is now supposed to be a single element, but they 
 may be discovered to be composed of many, the 
 union of which gives them life-sustaining forces, and 
 their separation life-destroying powers. 
 
 The energy of individual atoms of matter is limit- 
 ed, consequently they must have rest, therefore when 
 they relinquish their hold on the human body, other 
 atoms must be within easy reach to take their places. 
 
 Fresh atoms find access to the body by means of 
 
206 NATURAL LAWS. 
 
 food, water and air. The heavenly bodies supply the 
 necessary force to sustain the wearing away tissue, but 
 elements absorbed from the food taken into the stomach 
 are dead matter until they are vitalized by the stellar 
 gases, after being carried by the blood to the lungs. 
 Food elements cannot be utilized by the brain until 
 they are vitalized at the lungs, when they become life- 
 sustaining forces and are sent from the brain over the 
 nervous system to all parts of the body. That the 
 vitalization of the food elements is necessary, is known 
 from the fact that strong men will starve to death for 
 want of oxygen when well supplied with plenty of good, 
 wholesome food, if they are confined in an airtight 
 room. Men will live more clays in the open air with- 
 out food than they can hours confined in a closed 
 room with the very best the market could supply. 
 
 There are certain parts of the human body thatwill 
 waste away and are again restored, which changes may 
 often occur during a lifetime without producing any 
 local or permanent injury. In fact, these changes 
 constantly take place within the human anatomy; 
 but since the waste is being restored, the effect is 
 not noticed except at certain times when the brain is 
 unable to make the necessary repairs. 
 
 The parts of the body subject to changes are the 
 nerves, fats, blood, muscles, etc. The fat man may 
 grow lean and the lean man may grow fat, while large 
 quantities of blood may be taken from the veins with- 
 out serious injury to the general health of the body, 
 the nerves will increase and contract in length, the 
 
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 nails and hair will continue to grow, teeth will wear 
 out and disappear. There are other parts of the body, 
 however, who will not change from a natural cause; 
 when once produced they remain the same till the close 
 of life, except in case of disease. Some of these parts 
 are the brain, lungs, liver, heart, kidneys, bones, and 
 viscera. If, from disease or a wound, the lungs are 
 partly destroyed, the wound may be healed and health 
 restored, but the lost tissue cannot be replaced. Part 
 of the brain may be removed by violence and the 
 wound healed, but the cells as they originally existed 
 cannot be reproduced. The internal organs are sub- 
 jected to the same unvarying law, for they cannot 
 waste away even by starvation; their tissue remains 
 the same till death. 
 
 The foregoing facts go far to prove that the in- 
 ternal organism is not undergoing the constant change 
 we have been led to believe that it is, wdiich leads to 
 the conclusion that the combination of gases, which 
 nature employs in the construction of the vital organ- 
 ism, possesses a greater degree of vitality than those 
 which entered into the construction of other parts of 
 the human anatomy. No doubt, the atoms, orginally 
 employed, continue in their places until their vital 
 forces are exhausted, when their functions cease and 
 death follows. 
 
 The combination of gases received from some of 
 the Zodiacal divisions possess a greater degree of vital- 
 ity than others do, for which reason life continues 
 longer in one than in another case. The fact that 
 
208 NATURAL LAWS. 
 
 the brain-cells, after being destroyed, cannot be restor- 
 ed discloses the sophistry of the phrenologist, who 
 teaches brain cultivation by constant study. If nature 
 cannot restore lost tissue when removed by violence 
 then study will not increase the size of the natural 
 brain, nor add one single cell to its original growth. 
 Study does not increase but exhaust brain-force; it 
 does not destroy cells, but study exhausts the fluid 
 which they supply. When the brain is strong, the 
 cells are active and, therefore, kept full. In such cases 
 study will not affect the organism, but if the brain 
 cannot obtain from the blood a sufficiency of the vital 
 fluids to supply the necessary force for the operation 
 of the entire machinery of the body; then study will 
 exhaust an undue proportion of the vital forces, and, 
 in consequence thereof, the entire physical system will 
 suffer. 
 
 The ceil forces at work in two given brains 
 may be compared to two streams of water flowing 
 through two pipes of the same size. One pipe is forced 
 by a very small, and the other by a very great head of 
 water. The first is sufficient to keep the pipe full with 
 a constant stream flowing through it but not enough 
 to give any great amount of force, while the latter 
 sends a stream of water through with force enough to 
 run a factory. Both pipes are equal in size, but the 
 difference is solely due to the weight of water at the 
 head. So it is with brains of equal size and possessing 
 equal ceils; they will produce different results for the 
 reason that one has the power to keep its cells full to 
 
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 overflowing, while the other has only force enough to 
 sustain a feeble current of life; hence the difference in 
 their mental and physical powers. The stronger brain 
 can work overhours with little fatigue and a short rest 
 for recuperation, while the weaker brain is always weak 
 and sluggish. It has frequently been argued that the 
 brain can be developed by constant study, because the 
 muscles are increased in size and strength by labor; 
 but perhaps the philosopher, who advanced that notion, 
 was not aware of the fact, that the muscles are sup- 
 plied with vital fluid and physical forces from the 
 brain cells, and that every ounce of increase in their 
 size and every pound of strength added to them is ob- 
 tained at the expense of the brain, therefore it exhaust 
 in proportion to the amount of matter supplied to the 
 building up of the tissue of the muscle. 
 
 Muscle cell may be created by brain force through 
 exercise, but mental and physical exercise always ex- 
 hausts it for the time being at least, but lost ener- 
 gies are again restored by rest and inhalation. After 
 violent exercise the brain, having expended its force, 
 its cells are refilled by rapid respiration, and as soon 
 as they are refilled the breathing becomes normal. 
 If the physical exercise has been violent and pro- 
 longed, the brain cells become so exhausted that they 
 cannot recuperate at once, therefore cannot supply the 
 full flow of force required to keep up the strength, 
 when the muscles become lax and tired. This fact is 
 made plainer by the experience of a debauchee 
 whose brain was under the influence of strong drink 
 
2IO NATURAL LAWS. 
 
 for the space of 24 hours, and during which time he is 
 dreaming horid dreams and raving in delerium, thus 
 exhausting the contents of his brain cells, and reducing 
 his vital forces; but all of this time lie is prone on his 
 bed with all his muscles in a relaxed state, a condi- 
 tion necessary for rest and recuperation, and therefore 
 he should become strong and active on his feet again 
 as soon as he is sober enough to stand; but. on the con- 
 trary, his muscles are scarcely able to support his 
 staggering body because his brain force has been ex- 
 hausted by intense and violent thoughts, which re- 
 quires hours for it to recuperate sufficiently to support 
 the usual strength of the muscular system. 
 
 Nature completes the human machine at the 
 moment of maturity, beyond which point of develop- 
 ment man has no power to extend nor to change it 
 except by violence. The body is ruled by the brain 
 and not the brain ruled by the body. There exists no 
 will-power, physical strength, nor mind independent 
 of the brain. If the brain and internal organs could 
 be reconstructed every seven years, as we have been 
 instructed by very high authority that they can, then 
 life would continue forever on the same principal as 
 that of the old lady's socks that would last a lifetime, 
 saying that she could knit socks that would last a 
 lifetime by refooting them every winter and retoping 
 the same every other winter. 
 
 If new brain cells are continually forming, their 
 strength could not grow less, consequently they would 
 support the current of vitality all' the time, and, since 
 
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 the body is supported by the brain, it could not wear 
 out. If the renewing process of the body is incessantly 
 going on, there is no reason why life should not con- 
 tinue indefinitely; but it never does. We have all 
 heard of a Methusala, the wandering Jew and tibi- 
 tian monstrosity, but none of them have been caught 
 and placed on exhibition to demonstrate their exist- 
 ence or to prove the presence of the inexorable forces 
 in nature, which were necessary to produce them, or 
 as freaks that live independently, or in defiance of 
 natural laws; therefore it can safely be said that life 
 is never prolonged beyond the extreme limit of ordinary 
 existence. When one or more of the divisions of the 
 brain fail in its functions, life goes out of the entire 
 encephalon, be it a Jew, Gentile, or a Mahatma, and 
 he w T ho says that he can prolong life by any artificial 
 means, beyond a reasonable limit, is not a profitable 
 companion or councilor. 
 
 The brain is composed of layers, and all have 
 their physical duties to perform, and when each has 
 served its time in executing the physical functions of 
 the body then life goes out- When once set in motion 
 the brain never stops, except by violence, until some 
 part of it is worn out, and when it does stop from 
 natural causes, man has no power to infuse life into 
 its wornout cells, for the atoms of matter, which were 
 enlisted in the service of life at its beginning, have 
 served out their time and cannot be induced to re- 
 enlist, while other atoms are not permitted to take 
 their places since the Zodiacal brain was created, prior 
 
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 to birth, in nature's secret laboratory and cannot be 
 returned to the hands which created it, for repairs. 
 
 For the above reasons man grows old and infirm, 
 woman becomes wrinkled and fades. The rose of 
 youth departs from the cheek of the blushing maid, 
 the luster from the sparkling eyes. The step of pride 
 loses its firmness, the mind becomes enfeebled, memory 
 fleas away, the animated machine refuses to continue 
 its labors and stillness reins supreme, in the once ac- 
 tive citadel of life. 
 
 THE HOROSCOPE OF JUSTICE RATHBONE. 
 The Founder of the Order of the K. of P. was born 
 at the rising of the Sun, Jupiter and Mercury in the 
 sign Scorpio, which gave him a large head, active 
 brain and force of character. Scorpio, rising, gave 
 him a large, stout body, endowed with strength and 
 activity. The Sun and Mercury, rising, gave him 
 force of character, magnetic power and social influence. 
 Mercury and the Sun, rising in the sign Scorpio, made 
 him studious, secretive and thoughtful, which are pre- 
 requisite to the successful practise of Medicine, for 
 which Mr. Rathbone would have been especially 
 adapted. Jupiter, joined to the Sun, gave him a 
 strong social development. Venus, in the house of 
 friends, increased that development; consequently, his 
 mind led him into the social channels, which caused 
 him to study man's social and fraternal relations to 
 each other; but this desire alone would not have ac- 
 complished Mr. Rathbone's object of brotherhood. 
 
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 He was born. like Lincoln and Darwin, when Mercury 
 
 and Uranus were receiving a trine influence from each 
 other, which gave him originality of thought, inde- 
 pendence in action and a large degree of intuition. 
 This magnetic strength, coupled with his mental ac- 
 cuteness, gave him the power to thrill the fraternal 
 world while rehearsing the products of this master 
 mind, and made his name famous the world over. 
 
 HOROSCOPE OF THOMAS A. EDISON. 
 
 T. A. Edison was born Feb. 11, 1846, one year 
 earlier than the date given for his birth. This I 
 know to be a truth from the fact that Mr. Edison 
 could not be the genius he is if born in '4j; but 
 Feb. 11, '46, describes him as he is. 
 
 He was born at 3.30 p.m., at which time Scorpio 
 was rising, and he is therefor ruled by Mars, which I 
 find in sign Taurus, joined to Jupiter, their influenc 
 makes him self-confident, self-willed, firm and de- 
 termined. He aspires to leadership and takes quiet 
 pride in being famous. 
 
 The Moon, at Mr. Edison's birth, was in the mid- 
 heaven, which has a tendency to give popularity and 
 public notority. The Moon, Mars and Jupiter, in trine 
 to each other, also gives him force, energy and a de- 
 gree of popularity, the influence and support of which 
 is to give fame; but they also show r a large, strong, 
 active brain. I further find Mercury in sextile to 
 Uranus, which gave to Mr. Edison originality of 
 
214 TH[ E HOROSCOPE OF THOMAS A. EDISON. 
 
 thought, independence of action and an inquisitive 
 and inventive turn of mind. 
 
 Mr. Edison was not made for a plodder: he is a 
 natural investigator. 
 
 He takes nothing for granted;he likes to wrestle with 
 the unknown and unseen things of nature. Had Mr. 
 Edison been born 50 years sooner, before electricity 
 was so well known, he doubtless would have studied 
 chemistry or some mechanical inventions. Like Dar- 
 win and Lincoln he was born when Mercury and 
 Uranus were in friendly aspect to each other. Uranus 
 gives scientific and inventive ability; but, in other 
 particulars, the strength of the horoscope determines 
 his bent of mind. 
 
 I use the foregoing horoscope to show that a 
 benefic influence of Mercury to Uranus always gives 
 a mind that will branch out in a new and strange 
 field of operation or investigation, because when the 
 brain is large and active it always produces something 
 new and strange, if not startling. The size and con- 
 dition of the brain can be known by the planets. 
 There are many persons born, when Mercury and 
 Uranus are in friendly aspect to each other, that ac- 
 complish nothing above the ordinary, because their 
 brains are small and inactive. 
 
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