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PROF. JOS. RODES BUCHANAN, M. D. 
 
(A scientific secret revealed,) 
 
 PEFU0BK2ITY 
 
 Tl?e absolute law of tfye entire 
 Universe 
 
 LONG KNOWN TO CONTROL ALL MATTER 
 
 NOW REVEALED AS 
 
 THE LAW OF ALL LIFE 
 
 and the periods discovered, showing 
 
 1. The course of every life from birth to death. 
 
 2. When to prepare for success, and when for failure. 
 
 3. When to toil and when to rest for health. 
 
 4. How to avoid or overcome misfortune. 
 
 5. How every life affects other lives. 
 
 6. Whom to seek and whom to avoid in marriage, 
 
 friendship and business. 
 
 7. Counsel as to parents and children. 
 
 8. Warnings to patients and physicians. 
 
 9. Influence of moon and planets on tides, we -it her , 
 
 vegetation, earthquakes and life. 
 
 10. Warnings that may protect life and property, 
 
 11. Plain rules to find your own years, months and 
 
 days for success or failure, health or sickness. 
 
 12. Destiny of Nations shown in the history of the 
 
 United States. 
 
 13. Dangers of the next eighteen years. 
 
 14. Personal experience as examples. 
 
 15. Demonstration in the life of 
 
 NAPOLEON BONA* A"™ 
 
 ■^13 TT/^TTAXTATVT AH V\ 
 
 By Prof. Jos. Rodes^Buchanan, m. D 
 
 Author of System of Anthropology, The New Education, Man- 
 ual of Psychometry, Therapeutic Sarcognorny, Professor of 
 Physiology and Institutes of Medecine in the colleges of 
 Cincinnati, New York and Boston and D^an of the Faculty 
 in the parent school of American Eclecticism at Cincin- 
 nati 46 years ago. 
 
 San Jose, Cal., 1897. 
 Published by E. S. BUCHANAN. 
 
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Copyrighted by Jos. Rodes Buchanan, M. D. 
 
 1897. 
 
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 Garden City Printing House, Schmitt & Currlin, Prop i 
 160-171 W. San Fernando St., San Josk, cat.. 
 
Chap. i.-PERIODICITY. 
 
 Origin and nature of the discovery now revealed — ancient 
 opinions — its test by practical application — the num- 
 ber seven the prevalent number in nature — aseptimal 
 division in all affairs of life and in the solar system — 
 study of Periodicity by physicians — septimal doctrine 
 of mv college colleague. 
 
 After my retirement from the Eclectic Medi- 
 cal College at Cincinnati in 1856, my atten- 
 tion was attracted by an apparent periodicity 
 of nature, in the phenomena of disease and in 
 the different influences of week days, months 
 and years, and my affairs in the college. 
 
 Popular opinion fixed upon the sixth day of 
 the week, Friday, as unlucky, and some of 
 my experiments seemed to sustain that idea, 
 which was expressed in the creative legend of 
 Genesis, that God was fatigued on the sixth 
 day and rested on the seventh, which was 
 therefore ordered to be a day of rest. 
 
 Friday, the sixth day, w T as the day of the 
 crucifixion of Jesus, and has since been re- 
 garded as hang-man's day, and used for that 
 purpose. The wide spread opinion that Fri- 
 day is an inauspicious daj^, would not have 
 been so long maintained without some foun- 
 dation in nature, and the same impression as 
 to the number thirteen must have been based 
 on some experience. 
 
I need not narrate my methods of investi- 
 gation and reasoning which led to the con- 
 clusions that I now offer my readers, which 
 have been confirmed by many observations 
 so fully that I am warranted in offering the 
 doctrine to the public, which I have hereto- 
 fore concealed for thirty years, waiting to 
 subject it to decisive tests, to know if it was 
 practically reliable. 
 
 To make decisive tests of the law, I have 
 been accustomed upon first meeting a stranger 
 to tell him of the favorable and unfavorable 
 periods of his life, and to find him astonished 
 at the revelation of his troubles, the times of 
 deadly sickness, financial loss, disappoint- 
 ments, calamities and failures in schemes 
 \ that looked plausible. 
 
 Some lives are more fortunate than others 
 and the periods of distress or calamity less 
 marked ; but I do not think the failure of the 
 rule (by some interfering cause) occurred in 
 more than from two to five per cent. That 
 interference may have been due to astrolog- 
 ical causes, or to the bearing of one life on an- 
 other, as one's destiny may be elevated or de- 
 pressed by the influence of others; besides my 
 understanding of the law was incomplete un- 
 til in reviewing it I found an oversight. 
 
 The law which I have found in operation, 
 and which my most intimate friends, in test- 
 ing, have become convinced by experience that 
 
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it is a law of great importance to be under- 
 stood, is easily stated. It is this — that all vi- 
 tal operations proceed in a varying course, 
 measured by the number seven. This septimal 
 division I expect to find in the life of every in- 
 dividual from youth to age, in the progress of 
 diseases, in the history of nations, societies, 
 enterprises, and everything that has progress 
 and decline — in short in all life, for all life has 
 its periods of birth growth decline and death. 
 I presume inorganic nature has periodical 
 laws also, as seen in sun spots which appear 
 to have eleven year periodicities according to 
 the latest observations ; and I know not why 
 animals should not have their periodic laws 
 as well as man; (for they have definite periods 
 of gestation, of life and death) ; and even the 
 vegetable kingdom has its regular periods, for 
 the solar system and stellar worlds have re- 
 gular periods which control all life by the 
 seasons, by electricity and magnetism, and 
 there is nothing that escapes these influences, 
 which are all periodic. 
 
 The regular periodicity of fever has been a 
 great puzzle to the medical profession. The 
 great anatomist, Prof. Reil of Germany, re- 
 ferred it to 1 'some general law of the Universe' ' 
 which was good philosophy and corresponds 
 with Kepler's ideas. Cullen, Bailly and Roche 
 made some imperfect attempts to explain it, 
 but M. Br ache t, a French physiologist tested 
 
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it experimentally very successfully by adher- 
 ing to the number seven. 
 
 Sir Thomas Watson, M. D., describes his 
 experiment as follows: 
 
 "Towards the end of the month of October 
 in the year 1822, M. Brachet took a cold bath 
 at midnight, tor seven nights in succession, in 
 the river Saone. On the first occasion he re- 
 mained quarter of an hour in the river; on 
 the second half an hour; till at length he was 
 able to stay in the water a full hour at a time. 
 Alter each bath he betook himself to a warm 
 bed and in a short time became affected with 
 considerable heat followed by copious perspi- 
 ration, in the midst of which he fell a sleep. 
 At the end of the seven days, M. Brachet 
 ceased to repeat this experiment; but what 
 was his surprise, at finding on the following 
 nights, between twelve and one o'clock, that 
 all the phenomena of a true ague fit appeared 
 in due order and succession ! As however this 
 artificial paroxysm was not very severe, and 
 as he felt quite well during theday, M. Brachet 
 determined not interfere with it; but to ob- 
 serve the result, six times it . renewed with 
 great regularity. On the seventh night after 
 he had omitted the baths he was summoned 
 towards midnight to a "woman in labor." 
 On that visit he overcame the periodic chill 
 and fever and had no more of it. 
 
 This shows the natural law of periodic re- 
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currence of any strong and repeated impres- 
 sion at a specified hour and day and the abil- 
 ity to terminate evil impressions on the seventh 
 da\ r which is more marked on the eighth and 
 ninth, so that the ninth day is often consid- 
 ered critical. 
 
 Dr. Watson says, "we have much to learn 
 on this subject" and wonders why in quotid- 
 ian fevers their usual and natural paroxysms 
 occur, not in the evening, but in the morning, 
 when there should be the least tendency to ex- 
 acerbation of febrile action. 
 
 The septimal law of the two periods of life 
 explains this by showing that the vital force 
 is feebler in the morning and stronger in the 
 afternoon. It shows the folly of early cold 
 bathing. Many years ago several young men 
 in a town near Cleveland get into a fad of 
 bathing in the cold river (the Cuyahoga) on 
 rising in the morning; which they were robust 
 enough to keep up for some months on their 
 theory, beginning in the fall without properly 
 observing its effects. They were all injured in 
 health and compelled to give it up. Warm 
 or hot bathing is much more congenial es- 
 peecially to the old or the very young or 
 feeble. But strong warm constitutions may 
 enjoy a moderate use of cold water especially 
 when it contains salt or something stimulat- 
 ing and is followed by friction or massage. 
 The best statement on this subject in my reach 
 
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is that of my able colleague, the late Prof. I. 
 (i. Jones, who says, in his excellent work on 
 the American Eclectic practice of medicine: 
 
 "You will find in many instances a tendency 
 to a return of the disease at set periods. The 
 laws of periodicity appear to extend beyond 
 the time governing the return of each parox- 
 ysm, and to produce a predisposition to a re- 
 lapse at periods of about seven days. So 
 that a return may be apprehended on the 
 same (lav of the week on which the last oc- 
 curred ; or to state it categorically, there is a 
 tendency to a return on the sf venth,four teen th , 
 twentyfirst, etc. day, from the time of the last 
 chill. Physicians familiar with the disease 
 have observed this tendency, and many 
 have adopted the plan of fortifying their pa- 
 tients against the disease at those particular 
 times. The days mentioned have long been 
 considered important days." 
 
 In typhoid fever which comes on slowly and 
 insidiously we have no day to count from but 
 Prof. Jones says the usual time of the premoni- 
 tory symptoms is about six days which is what 
 periodicity would indicate. In favorable cases 
 the improvement appears in the second or 
 third week beyond which the indications are 
 unfavorable. It is the doctrine of medical 
 writers generall} 7 that fevers have critical 
 days, a time called a crisis, promising favor- 
 able or unfavorable results whether from 
 
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specific causes or from contagion. The sixth, 
 thirteenth, twentieth and twenty-seventh be- 
 ing unfavorable days, the favorable indica- 
 tions are apt to appear on the second or third 
 day later. But the unfavorable days must be 
 guarded against. When Prof. Jones had a 
 student patient running into typhoid fever 
 his prompt treatment broke up the disease in 
 twenty-four hours and he was convalescent 
 on the fifth day, but not allowed to go out 
 on the sixth. 
 
 While the laws of the human constitution 
 carrv it into periodicity, diseases dependent 
 on present causes must obey those causes and 
 if the cause be bacterial we must study the 
 action of bacteria. 
 
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Chap. 2.— PERIODICITY THROUGHOUT 
 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 K fleet of the moon on animal lite and flesh— farmer's 
 observations — all scientific laws mysterious — facts 
 better than theories — why my secret is pub ished. 
 Universal influences of celestial bodies. — Predomi- 
 nant influence of the moon on tides, vegetation and 
 and life — influence of the planets known to the 
 ancients — profound astrologists who are skillful 
 physicians — opinions of Hippocrates and Kepler — 
 a new explanation of planetary influences — the moon 
 governed by seven — testimony by ancient scientists 
 — influence on earthquakes — testimony of M. Perrey 
 Arago and Sir John Herscl ell — Pearce on earth- 
 quakes produced by the moon — Commander Morri- 
 son predicts an earthquake in South America in 1853 
 — Kepler explained winds and storms caused by 
 moon and planets — Medical colleges ignorant of 
 meteorology — testimon}' of 25 distinguished physi- 
 cians as to the influences of the moon on diseases — 
 moon controls cholera — new moon and full moon 
 dangerous — effects of moon on insanity, ! emorrhage 
 and deaths — on the flow of sap and on the weather 
 and tides — earthquakes predicted — critical days in 
 diseases known for 3000 years. 
 
 The periods of the moon are in sevens. 
 Every woman knows how that governs her 
 constitution. Close observers find the peri- 
 ods of the moon, influential in diseases and 
 its eftect on the brain is such as to originate 
 the word lunatic from Luna, the moon. If 
 you think the moon a matter of no impor- 
 tance, try the eiFect of moonlight on a piece 
 
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of fresh poultry, veal or mutton. Perhaps a 
 mutton head will do as well. Let some dull 
 fellow sleep with his head in the moonshine 
 and see how he feels next morning. The most 
 experienced farmers w T ho go by practical ob- 
 servation instead of theories, pay close atten- 
 tion to the state of the moon, because they 
 find it profitable to do so. If they did not 
 they would soon give up this old idea; but 
 the longer they live the more positive they 
 are. 
 
 He who will not believe any law of nature, 
 until he understands its cause, is a very shal- 
 1ow t thinker. All real science is a collection of 
 facts that we cannot explain. Who can tell 
 why oxygen attacks iron, and why an alkali 
 keeps it off, why sulphuric acid seizes soda, 
 potash, lime, ammonia or common metals. 
 Nobody knows, but such facts constitute 
 the grand science of chemistry. I have a the- 
 ory to explain lunar action, but that does not 
 make it any more certain — the fact is 
 what w r e must act on. 
 
 If I had ten more years of life, I would try 
 to develope the whole law of periodicity, 
 but my own periods are now in their Nadir 
 as to earthly life, and I can only tell what 
 I have observed, as a matter of curiosity, 
 having held it in reserve until tested by more 
 than thirty years observation by myself, not 
 thinking of making a book, and consequently 
 
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neglecting to record many interesting facts, 
 tot I was so interested in the profound philos- 
 ophv and religion, which concern the fate of 
 all mankind, that I had almost forgotten 
 periodicity, when a sagacious friend to whom 
 I gave the secret, who tested it and found it 
 true, insisted that it must not be lost. 
 
 1 believe that in the economy of the uni- 
 verse, as all stellar bodies have fixed periods 
 and everything in the universe exerts its in- 
 fluence as far as its sphere extends, it must 
 follow that all the planets of the solar system 
 are influential upon each other; and notwith- 
 standing the vast distances of the stars, re- 
 duces the influence of each star to a mini- 
 mum, the starry groups of the Milky way, 
 and other celestial constellations, must exert 
 a real influence upon the earth by their aggre- 
 gate power. 
 
 The moon is so near that all intelligent per- 
 sons recognize its influence upon the tides, up- 
 on vegetation, and upon human life, indeed 
 close observers engaged in agriculture are 
 very positive because they have observed it, 
 that their success in agriculture depends to a 
 sensible extent upon close observation of the 
 moon's influence. Indeed it is well known 
 that the moon exerts an influence often inju- 
 rious upon animal flesh, and upon the heads 
 of persons who sleep in the moon-light. 
 
 If any stellar body exerts an influence upon 
 
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the earth, that influence must increase or de- 
 cline as it approaches or recedes from us, and 
 must vary in the whole course of its orbit ; 
 hence it is reasonable to infer that certain 
 phenomena in nature and in human life will 
 recur at regular periods in accordance with 
 the movements of heavenly bodies, just as 
 day and night, summer and winter follow the 
 course the sun. The extensive observations 
 of the most ancient nations have convinced 
 them that the planets of the solar system have 
 each a special influence upon man and upon 
 the course of nature; hence arose the most 
 ancient and most wonderful of all sciences 
 called Astrology. I have never had time to 
 study the science, but I know that it is a 
 science of great profundity, and great value 
 to mankind, because I have always found in 
 conversation with intelligent, scientific and 
 honorable Astrologers, that they had a won- 
 derful capacity for revealing the outlines of 
 my own life and its probable future. 
 
 I have also found that very intelligent and 
 closely observant physicians, who have mas- 
 tered this science, have found it of very great 
 value in the diagnosis and prognosis of dis- 
 ease, though they often conceal their know- 
 ledge for fear of the colleges. Hippocrates, 
 called the father of medicine (a very practical 
 physician ) insisted that every physician should 
 understand Astrology. Kepler, the most re- 
 
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mark able Astronomer of his age, was a de- 
 voted student of Astrology and accustomed 
 to earn his living by preparing horoscopes. 
 Any Astrologer can tell you of many other 
 eminent men who havecultivated this science. 
 Though unable to stud_y the science, I have 
 speculated upon its philosophy; for the astro- 
 logical doctrine, that the time of one's birth 
 determines the course of events throughout 
 his life, seems a priori so unreasonable or so im- 
 possible, that I endeavored to ascertain how 
 planetary bodies may effect human life, and 
 it appears from my investigations that every 
 planet hasitspeculiai character, owing partly 
 to the chemical constitution of the mass and 
 partly to the psychic constitution of its in- 
 habitants. A planet on which the conditions 
 of life are favorable and the character of its 
 inhabitants has developed in noble and lov- 
 ing characteristics, must have a beneficent in- 
 fluence upon the earth as it approaches, simi- 
 lar to that which a good man has in society, 
 for it has not only its physical attraction, but 
 its luminous and electric emanations and the 
 still more pervading emanations of its psychic 
 life. 
 
 For the pysehic life of a planet must be a 
 pervading power. The many millions of souls 
 of those who have inhabited it through in- 
 calculable centuries must have accumulated 
 
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a vast spiritual power, for the power of the 
 soul is almost unlimited. 
 
 I believe ior example, that the inhabitants 
 of Mars and Venus have a much higher spirit- 
 ual condition than the inhabitants of this 
 earth, and consequently are capable of exert- 
 ing a much more beneficent influence than 
 what we receive from Saturn. 
 
 I hold it therefore not unreasonable to be- 
 lieve that a study of planetary influences will 
 reveal occult laws of human destiny-, and I 
 believe that astrological calculations gener- 
 ally harmonize with those of periodicity. 
 
 Periodicity assures me of a calamitous pe- 
 riod for this country, to be developed in the 
 first ten to fifteen years of the next century, 
 and astrological calculations lead to a simi- 
 lar conclusion. The student of periodicity 
 would add greatly to his knowledge of peri- 
 odical laws by the additional study of Astrol- 
 ogy whichisa far more extensive and complex 
 science, as valuable to a physsician as any of 
 the studies demanded by a college. 
 
 The broad and universal science of Periodi- 
 city, discovered by myself has not been sus- 
 pected by any author, but a great deal has 
 been written upon the periodicity controlled 
 by the moon, and a great deal of practical 
 knowledge of this is enjoyed by farmers. As 
 the moon's orbital revolution consists of four 
 periods of seven, it gives an excellent demon- 
 
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siration of the septimal law, which rules 
 many other things beside the moon, which 
 authors have not yet studied. 
 
 As to the lunar influence, it has been amply 
 illustrated by many physicians, whose works 
 I have not been able to obtain, which are 
 elaborate, statistical and scientific, making 
 the lunar science one of the most important 
 parts of meteorology. Hippocrates, the Greek 
 father of medical science said, "the lunar 
 month has such special power over our bo- 
 dies, that not only births, but diseases, death 
 or recovery have a kind of dependence on 
 such n vclution." 
 
 Ptolemy had the same opinion, saying, "the 
 moon being of all heavenly bodies the nearest 
 to the earth, also dispenses much influence 
 and things, animate and inanimate, sympa- 
 thize and vary with her." 
 
 There has been a continual succession of 
 such opinions, and modern writers adduce 
 the confirmator}' facts. M. Perreysays "The 
 number of earthquakes when the moon is near- 
 est to the earth, is greater than when she is 
 farthest away, They are also more frequent 
 when the action of the sun and moon on the 
 earth is in the same direction ; and shocks are 
 likewise more frequent when the mocn is near 
 the meridian than when she is near the hori- 
 zon. Arago, the greatest French scientist, 
 said, that those who disbeleived the mo.m's 
 
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influence, had never presented any good, scien- 
 tific evidence against it. Sir John Herschell 
 said, he had satisfied himself by long obser- 
 vation, that the moon, when very nearly full, 
 cleared the sky of clouds, producing a calm, 
 serene night. 
 
 Alfred J. Pearce, one of the ablest modern 
 authors, has presented conclusive evidence, 
 that earthquakes depend not only on the po- 
 sition of the moon, but on the co-operation 
 of the planets with the moon. But this sub- 
 ject is too extensive to be presented here. The 
 demonstrations are not only complete in a 
 great number of earthquakes, but are placed 
 beyond doubt by predictions of earthquakes 
 based on planetary action. For example, 
 Commander Morrison of the British navy, 
 twelve months before the earthquake occurred, 
 predicted that there would be "earthquakes 
 and sudden chasms in the earth" in July 1853, 
 about the 16th day, along the northern coast 
 of South America — the earthquakes came al- 
 most exactly on the day he mentioned in that 
 region. 
 
 The grand astronomer Kepler, who preceded 
 Newton and revealed the laws of planetary 
 motions, understood the Universe betterthan 
 any of his successors and wrote a treatise 
 showing the law of regulation of all meteor- 
 ology by the action of the moon and planets 
 
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—a doctrine which has been applied in Dove's 
 law of the winds. 
 
 Yet the medical profession has always been 
 too narrow in its views, and has always neg- 
 ed important sciences, which may not be 
 in the college curriculum, such as Hemospasia 
 which is the most valuable contribution to 
 therapeutics of the present century. The 
 average doctor does not suspect the large 
 amount of knowledge out of his reach, be- 
 cause it was not in his college lessons. 
 
 As to lunar science, he knows nothing 
 of the writings of Prot. Laycock of England 
 and such eminent physicians as Mead, Tesla, 
 Balfour, Ramazinni, Scott, Pearson, Kennedy, 
 Orton, Allen, Leuret, Moseley, Proctor, Rob- 
 ertson, Smith, De la Lande, Toaldo, Howard, 
 Queielet, Pitcairn and Graves, beside many 
 observations in writers of former centuries. 
 My attention was called to this by learning 
 that calculous and kidney diseases were worse 
 at the new and full moon, and the nervous 
 system also in a worse condition. 
 
 I shall offer enough of these observations 
 to show that lunar periodicity ought to be 
 known to all, and especially to all physicians. 
 It is a perfect demonstration of the septimal 
 law, and attracted the observation of the an- 
 cient Egyptians, Greeks and Jews. Galen, 
 the L r reat Roman physician, dicussed the sub- 
 ject extensively in his writings. The influence 
 
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of the moon on ulcers was shown in the Lon- 
 don Medical Journal of 1785. Cullen and 
 Balfour endorsed this idea. Mead showed 
 that the influence of the moon was greatest 
 in apogee and perigee. 
 
 Balfour, Lind, Scott, Farquhar and Pear- 
 son agree in the doctrine, that fevers in Ben- 
 gal and India are controlled by the moon, 
 and that not only in fevers, but in dysentery 
 and spamodic and affections, aggravations 
 "occur most frequently during the lunar peri- 
 ods, i.e. in fifty hours before and after the new 
 and full moon." They say that this was the 
 general opinion of the physicians of India. 
 
 Dr. Kennedy in his work on cholera in India 
 says that its attacks on both natives and for- 
 eigners are under lunar influence. Mr. Orton 
 says that "one gentleman had a paroxysm of 
 intermittent fever, every lunar month at the 
 new moon for two years and eight months. " 
 He had one paroxysm for two years invari- 
 ably at the new moon. 
 
 The healthy and unhealthy periods he illus- 
 trated by the following drawing, in which the 
 black lines show the unfavorable periods, 
 each of which extends three and three-quarter 
 days before and after the new moon or the 
 full moon. 
 
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The attacks of cholera were most frequent 
 otic or two clays before or after full moon or 
 change. Those eight clays brought on 31 at- 
 tacks, and the other twenty days only fifteen 
 attacks. In the middle of the quarter (seven 
 days after the critical time) there were no at- 
 tacks at all and on the fifth day after the 
 full or change there were only two attacks. 
 Hence the new moon and full moon are dan- 
 gerous and halfway between them is quite safe. 
 These lunar influences are much more power- 
 ful in India, hecause that climate developes 
 great sensitiveness of the nervous system. 
 But the effects would not be so exact and posi- 
 tive in more northern climates. Everybody 
 is powerfully affected by the moon in the trop- 
 ics, especially where the tides are high — high 
 tides and high fever go together. 
 
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Mead speaks of convulsions in a young fe- 
 male that came on with the rising tide and 
 departed as it fell, and Brookes says that rem- 
 edies for epilepsy should be given a day or two 
 before full moon, as that is the time attacks 
 come on. Dr. Ebers of Breslau reported a 
 case of somnambulism in a bo}' of eleven 
 years, which came on regularly every lull 
 moon. Dr. Rutter reported a case of hyster- 
 algia, which for many years increased at every 
 new and full moon. 
 
 The influence of the moon on insanity, as 
 observed by Dr. Michael Allen is the same as 
 shown in Orton's diagram for cholera, 11 
 deaths at full moon, 15 at new moon, one at 
 first quarter, three at last quarter. 
 
 11 Deaths 
 
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Observations in the Saltpetriere in Paris, 
 showed the pulse of lunatics to be quickened 
 just before the new moon. 
 
 Sexual excitement is influenced by the full 
 moon, and in India the sexes of wild animals 
 are more apt to be found together at that 
 time, the full or new moon. 
 
 At the exact hour of the. new moon Dr. Pit- 
 cairn of Edinburgh was seized with hemor- 
 rhage and fainting, and Prof. Cockburn at 
 the same hour died from a pulmonary hemor- 
 rhage, and five or six of his patients were 
 attacked by hemorrhages. 
 
 Dr. Moseley made a list of persons dying at 
 from 113 to 169 years of age, proving that the 
 very old die at the new or the full moon, and 
 from the records of illustrious persons con- 
 cluded that it was a general rule. 
 
 Dr. Robertson says that in the West Indies 
 all sorts of vegetables are fuller of sap at the 
 new and full moon ; hence the people gather 
 the castor oil nuts and cut the sugar-cane at 
 at that time, but do not cut timber at that 
 time — the nuts are believed to be fuller of oil 
 then. 
 
 Dr. Smith says that farmers in Peru gather 
 their maize crops in the decrease of the moon, 
 for if they gather it in the increase it will not 
 be free of moths three months, even if the 
 husk is left out. 
 
 The observations of M. Toaldo on the 
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weather of Lombardy for 48 years, showed 
 that the new moon and the full moon gener- 
 ally brought a change in the weather — the 
 new moon six times in seven, the full moon 
 five times in six, and the perigee, seven times 
 in eight. The nearer the moon to the earth 
 the more marked the effect, for when the 
 new moon coincided with the perigee the 
 change of weather occnred 31 times in 32. 
 
 That the sun and moon have a powerful ef- 
 fect upon everything is universally known. 
 Beside the heat, light and magnetism, and 
 the effects of moonlight, which are like those 
 of the Roentgen rays, there is the direct effect 
 of gravitation. The sun at midnight adds 
 its gravitating power to that of the earth 
 and thus increases the vital burden — a de- 
 pression which it relieves when it rises to its 
 zenith. The moon is so much nearer that it 
 is also powerful — more than twice as strong 
 as the sun — as we see it in tides when a vast 
 mass of water is raised five, ten or fifteen 
 feet and in some places a hundred feet. When 
 it is in conjunction with the sun at the new 
 moon, when its effects are most injurious, it 
 adds the depressing effect of its gravitation 
 to that of the sun, which makes midnight 
 unwholesome to man. At the full moon it 
 sends in the influence of the moon rays which 
 are very unfavorable to animal life. As it is 
 passing from one stage to another it produces 
 
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effects on vegetation with which farmers are 
 familiar, as physicians are with its effects in 
 the syzigies when it works with the sun and 
 brings on attacks of cholera. An attractive 
 force which raises tides in some places from 
 fifty to a hundred feet high must certainly af- 
 fect everything on the earth. 
 
 These things are obvious to the dullest un- 
 derstanding; but all the planets in the solar 
 system have their special affects, which are of 
 course periodic like all planetary movements. 
 They belong to light, electricity, magnetism, 
 and psychic forces, which are illimitable; and 
 I hold it demonstrable for I have discov- 
 ered in my experiments that every planet has 
 a peculiar psychic force different from every 
 other planet and effective upon the life of 
 man. All of this is governed by exact per- 
 iods, and it seems to be well established that 
 the influence of the moon and planets affects 
 not only the tides of the ocean but the whole 
 mass of the earth, causing its volcanic forces 
 to become active and bring on earthquakes. 
 Pliny says that Anaximander a Greek astron- 
 mer "foretold the earthquakes which over- 
 threw Lacedoemon." 
 
 There is a certain condition of the planets 
 which is believed to produce earthquakes and 
 Dr. Goad enumerates twenty earthquakes 
 which coincided with that position. In 1881 
 Mr. Pearce predicted earthquakes when that 
 
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position appeared. It was verified by ati 
 earthquake at Chios m 1881 which destroyed 
 4,000 lives — another destroyed 34 villages in 
 Armenia, and sharp earthquakes occurred in 
 Switzerland, Lyons and Grenoble. Several 
 other predictions have been verified. 
 
 This subject would require a large volume 
 to do it justice and we must leave it now and 
 all its numerous illustrations of the periodi- 
 city which governs the universe, to present in 
 concluvsion some practical rules based on lu- 
 nar periodicity, saying nothing of the plan- 
 ets—rules which are sanctioned by observa- 
 tions of three thousand years and endorsed 
 by Pearce. 
 
 These rules show that in serious diseases 
 the crisis arrives on the 6th, 13th and 20th 
 days — first on the 6th to the 8th day, the 
 moon passing through one-fourth of its or- 
 bit — 2nd on the 13th to the 15th day, as she 
 passes through half of her orbit — and third, 
 the 20th to 22d day, the moon passing 
 through the end of its third quarter, having 
 passed through 270 degress. 
 
 This illustrates the periodic law first stated 
 in this book, discovered over thirty years 
 ago — the fateful six in the number seven — and 
 the fateful 270 — the number of days which 
 brings us to separation from our mother and 
 exposure to a period of danger. 
 
 Nature should rally on the 8th and 9th 
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davs, it not, we may wait to the 16th or evetl 
 23d, but the 27th is a very evil day. 
 
 Chap. 3.-SEPTIMAL SYSTEM. 
 
 Scptimal system represented by the days of the week. 
 The first fifty years analyzed and described — my per- 
 sonal experience — advice how to manage the sixth 
 period to avoid misfortune and reach wisdom. How 
 the months of the year are arranged in good and evij 
 periods. How to find yonr periods by the table — 
 Impor.anee of love and friendship. 
 
 Periodicity and fate of our country from 1776 on into 
 the 20th century — our public men, Washington, 
 Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Calhoun, Doug- 
 lass, Clay. Young men our country's hope — rich men 
 our danger — another class our savior. 
 
 The septimal division of time corresponds 
 to the days of the week and is most easily 
 understood by using their names, Sunday, 
 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 
 Friday, Saturday. Sunday is the beginning 
 of the week, Saturday its end. Sunday cor- 
 responds to the beginning of life and the other 
 days to its progress. 
 
 If life is limited within fifty years, we have 
 a period of seven sevens for its first cycle. The 
 first seven years of the beginning of life is of 
 course a period of weakness and growth un- 
 der the protecting influence of parental love. 
 The second or Monday period or seven to 
 fourteen is a period of more active and vigor- 
 
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ous development under the same protecting 
 care and the third or Tuesday period from 
 fourteen to twenty-one is a period of still 
 greater vigor, still assisted by protection ; 
 hence the second and third are the best peri- 
 ods. The fourth or the Wednesday period 
 from twenty-one to twenty-eight is a period of 
 struggle without protection, and consequent- 
 ly of care and trouble, as well as energy and 
 accomplishment. 
 
 The fifth period from twenty -eight to thirty- 
 five, or Thursday period in which care and 
 responsibility is increased, is a period of in- 
 tense labor and the sixth or Friday period 
 from thirty-five to forty-two is the one in 
 which the exhausting results of struggle and 
 misfortune become apparent in a laborious 
 life. 
 
 The period from thirty-five to forty-two, 
 being a period of seven its sixth day or year 
 is the forty-first, and that is the year in which 
 calumity, disappointment, ill health and finan- 
 cial loss, are most likely to appear if the desti- 
 ny of the individual is not determined by his 
 stars as fortunate. 
 
 It was in my own experience the time when 
 I retired dissatisfied from my college position, 
 with some financial embarnssment, some ene- 
 mies, the only ones I ever realized, and came 
 near losing my life in the Ohio River when 
 frozen, by breaking through the ice. I have 
 
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seldom found any whose forty-first year was 
 at all satisfactory and free from misfortune. 
 
 The seventh or Saturday period from forty- 
 two to forty-nine may experience the linger- 
 ing effects of the sixth, but it is a period of 
 comparative rest, and afterthe forty-fifth year 
 men are excused from military duty to which 
 they are liable from twenty-one to forty-five. 
 
 From forty-two to fifty-six is a weak period, 
 Saturday being rest day and Sunday an in- 
 fantile period, the beginning of a second cycle, 
 appropriate for change with the more auspic- 
 ious influence of the first twenty-one years of 
 a second cycle if the first has been successful. 
 
 In our sixth period we need all possible aid 
 from friendship and love as we do in our first 
 6th period which is the time of birth. The 
 best assurance of that is a happy marriage, 
 and men generally obtain that try finding a 
 wife younger than themselves, b 1 it women 
 seldom seek the advantage of a younger 
 partner. 
 
 It is too late to wait until the evil time and 
 find friends then. They should be found in 
 our happier years, and it is desirable that 
 they should be younger, by from 7 to 17 
 years, which is a very favorable relation and 
 it is equally favorable when they are twenty- 
 five to forty-two our senior, in which case 
 though they may be very good friends, we 
 are not so apt to enjoy them. 
 
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I would also suggest that they are still 
 better friends when they have left the sphere 
 of physical existence, and much more compe- 
 tent to give us good advice. Many calamities 
 in human history would have been prevented 
 if spirit friends or guardian angels had been 
 regularly consulted, for they have a clearer 
 and more dispassionate view of all things. 
 They frequent ly impress women with warn- 
 ings which their husbands disregard. If Ju- 
 lius Cesar and Pontius Pilate had listened to 
 their wives, it would have been fortunate for 
 them. If Abraham Lincoln had consulted 
 his angel guardians when he felt the solemn 
 premonition of his own fate by assassination, 
 his life might have been saved. There is no 
 one who may not obtain this protecting in- 
 fluence if they seek it, for millions are now 
 acsessible to spiritual impressios, and capable 
 of giving them to others. Many a man's wife 
 might be his guardian angel if he would listen 
 to her impressions. If I were now to give my 
 best advice to a friend at his outset, in life I 
 would advise him to get the advice of a scien- 
 tific and honest master of astrology who 
 would show him the path of destiny which 
 he has already trodden and must follow 
 through life, either blindly stumbling or with 
 his eyes open to all dangers. The ruler of the 
 Universe has fixed our pathway and we can 
 walk in it with eyes open or shut. I regret 
 
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that I did not learn the value of the science in 
 time. It would have saved me from serious 
 errors. 
 
 If no such scientist is within reach, your 
 ascended friends can see farther and clearer 
 than you, and knowing what I do I would 
 not be a true friend if I did not advise you 
 rightly. They will advise you to lead a kind 
 and honorable life as our elder brother Jesus 
 Christ advised the world, and if you do you 
 will get nearer to celestial wisdom. I have 
 tried to show you in " Primitive Christian- 
 ity" what the pure religion of Heaven was 
 and is and it you seek that you will be be- 
 loved in life and honored in death, leaving a 
 good memory among friends. 
 
 The first fifty years of life ought to secure a 
 home and family, a good reputation and 
 good friends in a good community. 
 
 In accordance with these views twenty-one 
 years is the natural period of encouraging 
 progress — the fourteen succeeding years, the 
 period oi labor and laborious progress, and 
 and the next seven ending at forty-two, the 
 period of decline and danger; so that we 
 need be particularly prudent and careful in 
 our sixth period, taking no risks or. heavy 
 responsibilities in our forty-first year. 
 
 Six being the evil number, needs to be 
 guarded against. The sixth year of a child, 
 the thirteenth, twentieth, twenty-seventh, 
 
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thirty-fourth and forty-first are all unfavor- 
 able in regular progression, bad, worse, 
 worst. But the months are as important to 
 be regarded as the years. 
 
 Months — If the year is divided into seven 
 periods of fifty-two days each the sixth per- 
 iod will prove to oe the evil one. Taking my 
 own example, being born Dec. 11th, my per- 
 iods run as follows : 
 
 Sunday— Dec. 11 to Feb. 1. 
 Monday— Feb. 1 to March 25. 
 Tuesday— March 25 to May 16. 
 Wednesday — May 16 to July 7. 
 Thursday— July 7 to Aug. 28. 
 Friday— Aug. 28 to Oct. 20. 
 Saturday— Oct. 20 to Dec. 11. 
 
 This I think has been verified through my 
 life. October has been my unlucky month, 
 and at the present time I am realizing as I 
 write the dangerous effects of an evil period 
 upon my vitality though no one in meeting 
 me would suspect it from my appearance. I 
 am quite sure the result will soon be fatal, 
 for it is an evil period developed in fortnightly 
 periodicity which is the most fatal. 
 
 Our successful time is the first one hundred 
 and eighty-two days alter the birth day. 
 The latter half of our year is less promising, 
 and the sixth period to be specially guarded 
 against is from the 216th to the 312th day. 
 
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In the 6th period which begins our daylight 
 life, we depend upon the love of parents and 
 friends. So, in our 6th period through life we 
 need that aid and should seek to have friend- 
 ship and love to assist us. 
 
 That friendly love comes best from parents 
 who are 25 to 42 years older than ourselves. 
 Younger parents are less beneficent, under 14 
 years it is an unfavorable parentage and un- 
 der 10 calamitous. 
 
 Evil Periods. 
 Sept. 18 to Nov. 9. 
 Oct. 19 to Dec. 10. 
 Nov. 16 to Jan. 7. 
 Dec. 17 to Feb. 7. 
 Jan. 16 to March 9. 
 Feb. 16 to April 9 
 March 18 to May 9, 
 April 18 to June 9. 
 May 19 to July 9. 
 June 18 to Aug. 9. 
 July 19 to Sept. 9. 
 Aug. 18 to October 9. 
 
 BlRTHDATE. 
 
 January 1st, 
 February 1st, 
 March 1st, 
 April 1st, 
 May 1st, 
 June 1st, 
 July 1st, 
 August 1st, 
 September 1st, 
 October 1st, 
 November 1st, 
 December 1st, 
 
 From this table one may easily ascertain 
 his periods by advancing his figures as his 
 date advances in the month. Thus my date 
 being December 11, the addition of 10 days 
 would change the evil period from Aug. 18th 
 and October 9th, to August 28, October 19. 
 The evil months in the evil year, 41, are sure 
 
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to be unfortunate, and in the fifty-two days 
 in the evil month period the worst will be the 
 forty-fourth, or eight days preceding the end, 
 which in my case will be October 12th, the 
 day on which I usually expect some trouble. 
 
 PERIODICITY AND FATE OF OUR COUNTRY. 
 
 Our country born in 1776 was fortunate in 
 the aid of Washington born 44 years earlier, 
 and of John Adams born 41 years earlier, and 
 Thomas Jefferson 33 years. These men were 
 in a favorable parental relation to the republic, 
 but Alexander Hamilton, though equal to 
 any in ability, w T as in a Thursday relation 
 (January 5th, 1757) and his influence on the 
 whole was not beneficent. Aaron Burr stood 
 in an equally unfavorable relation, born Feb. 
 6th, 1756, and came near defeating our no- 
 blest patriot, Thomas Jefferson, for the presi- 
 dency, which would have been unfortunate 
 for our country, and his subsequent career 
 led to his trial for treason. His date was not 
 unfriendly to that of Hamilton one year ear- 
 lier, but their intense ambition and rivalry 
 resulted in his killing Hamilton in a duel. He 
 died in disgrace among his countrymen. It is 
 probable that if Hamilton had lived, his in- 
 fluence would have been very injurious. 
 
 In the 6th year of our country, 1782, and 
 in its 6th month, March 18, was born, John 
 C. Calhoun, whose doctrine of nullification, 
 
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led nearly to the destruction of the Union by 
 the War of Secession, against which the Con- 
 stitution had not been guarded, as it was 
 formed at an unfavorable time. The move- 
 ment towards secession was assisted by the 
 policy of Stephen A. Douglass, born 1813, m 
 our country's evil period, 1811 to 1816 My 
 own period, 1814, is not a favorable one 
 toward this country. I cannot but antago- 
 nize its character and career with the sharpest 
 criticism. I could have no great sympathy 
 with a population that was ready when a 
 political difference arose to shed the blood of 
 many hundred thousands instead of submit- 
 ting' to peaceful arbitration, and which now 
 in blindness and selfishness is advancing to- 
 ward another civil war. 
 
 Henry Clay, born in 1777, was by that 
 date in unity or harmony with his country, 
 in which he was immensely popular. He 
 firmly maintained its rights in the war with 
 England, was active in restorning peace by 
 a treaty, and in urging internal improvements 
 and the promotion of our infant manufact- 
 ures, but I felt in my first interview with him 
 in 1832, that my spirit of progress and his 
 mind on the American plane of thought were 
 not in harmony. He received me with cor- 
 dial friendliness but as my period was in a 
 Friday relation to his (37) I was not at- 
 tracted, and when I met another eloquent 
 
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statesman who was really my friend, my Fri- 
 day relation to his birth (40) made me incap- 
 able of enjoying his society. 
 
 If our countrymen have already found the 
 patriots that may guard our welfare, it will 
 be fortunate in our coming troubles. They 
 should be attended to and cherished now. 
 
 It is probable that those born in the dark 
 days of 1860 to 1867 will not bring a benefi- 
 cent influence. They will be about 50 years 
 old at our next cataclysm (1909-15). This 
 is not a positive dictum, but a suggestion to 
 stimulate vigilance. Young men born be- 
 tween 1887 and 1888 will probably be our 
 country's best friends. Men whose lives have 
 not been devoted to accumulating wealth are 
 our best reliance. History has not contradicted 
 the opinion of Jesus that such men are not 
 prepared for the kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 They are not a beneficent influence, for any 
 passion long and successfully indulged be- 
 comes predominant. Even if wealth has been 
 obtained by means considered honorable and 
 not by financial strategem it becomes a fi- 
 nancial magnet to hold man in the sphere of 
 selfishness. The remark of Ingersoll that no 
 man could own five millions, for the five mil- 
 lions would own him is not contradicted by 
 experience. There are a few who can hold 
 large sums and maintain their brotherhood 
 with humanity, but they are very rare and 
 
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extraordinary characters and have not the 
 opportunity. Hence they are not known. 
 The millionaire may retain some agreeable 
 qualities especially if his wealth was not ob- 
 tained by financial energy and sharpness. 
 Neither the business w r orld nor the church has 
 any conception of the duties of a rich man, 
 though Jesus Christ has spoken truly. Mil- 
 lionaire wealth is fatal to a republic and has 
 already dragged us down. And the people 
 do not know that they own the land on 
 which they toil. Women are our country's 
 best friends, educated women can save us. 
 The followers of Jesus Christ of Jerusalem 
 (not of Rome) will make a republic when 
 they appear. 
 
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Chap. 4 -NATIONAL PERIODICITY. 
 
 Our country's history and fate — Calamities past — Ca- 
 lamities to come. — Periodicity of the United States — 
 war of 1812, earthquake and financial distress — Why 
 the Revolutionary war was successful — Why the Fed- 
 eral Constitution has been a partial failure. Critical 
 times under Adams, Jefferson and Aaron Burr — Pur- 
 chase of Louisiana, not entirely a blessing — The Fri- 
 day Septimal introduced the war of the secession, for 
 fate has no more mercy on corrupting nations than 
 on individual sinners— secession resolutions came in 
 the evil periods — desolation and moral corruption — 
 the crime of Bankers and Speculators. Shall it be re- 
 form or revolution — 1910 an alarming time — Tne 
 voice of Jesus above the storm — Nations ruined by 
 avarice of their masters — Rome, Egypt, France and 
 South Carolina warn our demogogues in vain. The 
 thunder rolls in 1909. 
 
 The most striking illustration of the peri- 
 odic law that I know, is found in the destiny 
 of nations. 
 
 United States began as a nation July 4th, 
 1776. Its first cycle extended to 1824. Its 
 Friday period was from 1810 to 1817. Dur- 
 ing that period came on the unsatisfactory 
 war with England called the war of 1812, its 
 last great battle being Jan. 8, 1815. Had 
 the war been prolonged into 1816 it would 
 have been a much greater calamity. The end 
 of a war is the gloomiest period, as derange- 
 ment and distress have accumulated. From 
 1815 to 1820 was a period of great financial 
 
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distress. The extensive earthquake of New 
 Madrid in 1811, which was in this period 
 changed the face of an extensive region. 
 
 In the Revolutionary war, the first 7 years 
 and 2 m#nths brought Independence at the be- 
 ginning of the Monday period, September 
 1 783, and before its close in 1890 came the 
 new Federal constitution, in 1887 and 1888 
 adopted with great difficulty too late in the 
 period. An earlier or much later adoption 
 would have been more fortunate. Certain- 
 ly its results have not been satisfactory. 
 From 1790 to 1797, the Tuesday period, 
 Washington was elected in 1792 the Monday 
 of the Tuesday period. He gave up the office 
 and we lost his services in the Friday period 
 1796. 
 
 From 1797 to 1804, the Wednesday period, 
 occurred the contest arising from the Federal- 
 ism of Adams and his alien and sedition laws 
 with the whisky insurrection and the dan- 
 gerous contests of Jefferson and Burr in 1801, 
 in which we narrowly escaped the triumph 
 of Burr over Jefferson. The Wednesday pe- 
 riod on the whole was unpleasant and 1798 
 was a period of contest with France, and 
 Washington died in 1799, but on the other 
 hand Jefferson purchased Louisiana in 1806. 
 It was a grand purchase for the United 
 States, but in an unlucky year, and it resulted 
 in the Civil War of secession, arising from con- 
 
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tests over the regulation of this territory 
 Jefferson was re-elected in 1805, leaving office 
 in 1809, an unfavorable Friday period. The 
 The Friday period took away Washington 
 and Jefferson. Madison succeeded in 1809, 
 the fifth year of the Thursday period (1804 
 to 1811) therefore entitled to expect an un- 
 favorable reign which was more fully verified 
 from 1811 to 1817— the seven year Friday pe- 
 riod, in which the Embargo and the war with 
 England made an unhappy time, and the Brit- 
 ish army came to Washington. 
 
 The Friday period of the second cycle (1825 
 to 1874) extended from 1860 to 1867, and 
 after the hostile excitement of 1860 the war 
 began in 1861. The war of secession began 
 by the attack on Fort Sumpter, April 12, 
 1861, in the midst of the Friday months, 
 w T hich extend from March 21 to May 12. 
 The union troops were called for April 15, 
 75,000, and May 3rd 82,000. March 21 to 
 May 12 is uniformly an unlucky time for the 
 United States, -most frequently by corrupt 
 and absurd congressional legislation, of which 
 a great deal more is certain to follow. 
 
 The first week of May is the worst possible 
 time for the United States. A new President 
 comes in March 4th, and the carnival of 
 jobbery, intrigue and boodle, in dispensing 
 patronage runs riot for two evil months, 
 ably illustrated by President Cleveland when 
 
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he bought the Democratic party, and the game 
 will soon begin again. 
 
 The acts of secession were passed by the 
 Southern states in the Thursday and Friday 
 months. In the Friday period, March 21 to 
 May 12, by Virginia- April 25, Arkansas May 
 6, North Carolina soon after May 20, Tenn- 
 essee June 8. In the Thursday period, Janu- 
 ary 27 to March 21 and nineteen days of 
 Wednesday, by Mississippi January 8, by 
 Florida January 10, and Alabama January 
 11, Georgia January 19, Louisiana January 
 26 and Texas February 1. The entire seces- 
 sion was in the unfavorable latter half of the 
 period excepting South Carolina, December 
 28, 1860, which South Carolina put into ac- 
 tion April 12, 1861. Counting from December, 
 1860, the secession rebellion then begun, last- 
 ing five years and four to five months, ending 
 in its fatal sixth period, leaving desolation and 
 misery where it had ruled. Desolation was 
 complete when we had reached the Nadir ot 
 our destiny and we are going to the same 
 place now — blind as bats to our destiny. 
 
 At the end of its seven year period 1867, 
 the process of recovery began painfully in 
 weakness through the South, while the North 
 became the hot-bed of the political corruption 
 of the Friday period (1866) so fearfully por- 
 trayed by Mr. Lincoln in one of his letters, the 
 consequences of which will probably develop 
 
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into another Friday period in 1910 and unless 
 the seeds of political disaster, the unjust laws 
 of monopoly, in land, finance and transporta- 
 tion, and other monopolies arising from rav- 
 enous selfishness and profligate accumulation 
 shall be thoroughly burned out then by the 
 volcanic fires, another Friday may come in 
 1958 or possibly the republic may be broken 
 and new common weaths have new destinies. 
 
 The evil period was so closely approaching 
 in 1859 that I predicted six years of disaster 
 in the Louisville Journal. 
 
 The opening of the war by Lincoln's call 
 for troops, April 15, 1861- was in the exact 
 middle of the Friday period, and its close was 
 almost exactly four years from that time, co- 
 inciding with Lincoln's assasination, April 14, 
 1865. April 9th Lee surrendered, April 26th 
 Johnson, May 4th Taylor, May 10th Jeffer- 
 son Davis was captured, May 14th was the 
 last fight in Texas, May 26th Kirby Smith 
 surrendered. 
 
 It may be thought that the Friday period 
 of the country was not appropriate for the 
 surrender of the Secession forces, but we 
 must remember that the maximum evil of a 
 war accumulates continually to its close. 
 The conquest of half the territory of the 
 Union left its population in a most desolate 
 condition, the people impoverished, farms in 
 decay, many cities ruined, their entire cur- 
 
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rency lost, their autonomy not yet restored, 
 the ignorant blacks corning into controlling 
 positions. 
 
 The entire destruction of their currency, 
 the greatest of financial calamities was 
 greatly aggravated by the subsequent con- 
 traction prompted by the bankers, about five 
 hundred millions being destroyed, when there 
 should have been an issue of $500,000,000 to 
 replace the entire loss of their money. This 
 was as disastrous as another year of war. 
 We may therefore rightly say that the worst 
 Friday year was 1866, the most calamitous 
 time of the nation, the South ruined, and the 
 North loaded down with debt with a vast 
 pension list, and the demoralization pro- 
 duced by war and the cormorant impulses of 
 knavish speculators, fostered by four years of 
 opportunity, a demoralization which is work- 
 ing out its natural result today, and giving us 
 the sure promise of another period of natio- 
 nal disaster equal to that from 1861 to 
 1865. 
 
 The sword of justice hangs over oiu heads, 
 for no nation can escape the calamities that 
 follow universal selfishness, and as the second 
 corresponding period of calamity is not far 
 off all prophetic minds are looking forward 
 with fear. From 1867 to 1874 was our Sat- 
 urday period, in which the evil effects result- 
 ing from the Friday period were continued, 
 
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and in the Friday year, 1873, additional fi- 
 nancial trouble was caused by unprincipled 
 legislation and corporate greed, which made 
 Senator Newton Booth ask in 1874 if it were 
 possible to have any reform or if oppression 
 must go on until revolution comes. 
 
 Our next cycle reaches from 1874 to 1923, 
 and its Friday period comes from 1909 to 
 1916. 
 
 As 1811 brought war within one year, July 
 19th, and 1860 brought war in a year, April 
 15th, an inauspicious month for its innaug- 
 uration t we ma\ expect if these precedents 
 are followed that 1910 will bring civil war, 
 or at least bring us to the brink of it, and as 
 spring is the most unfavorable time to the 
 country, especially the inauguration of a 
 president, March 4th, it seems that our third 
 president after McKinley will be in as perilous 
 position as Lincoln, either unable to rule at 
 all or only ruling at the head of a faction. 
 And the second will find himself in a storm. 
 
 This is not a war of sections before us but 
 a war of classes the most terrible that can be 
 imagined. The wealth that has been accumu- 
 lated, and by its accumulation has filled the 
 land with suffering and poverty, and the grind- 
 ing action of corporations, and other combi- 
 nations that disturb the whole course of in- 
 dustry, throwing millions out of employment 
 
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must rouse a ' feeling of vengeance in the 
 minds ot victims if they can discover who are 
 their oppressors. 
 
 The truth must in time dawn on the human 
 conscience that no man has a right to mon- 
 opolize anything and no man has a right to 
 hoard up millions for riotous luxury, and 
 domineering power while his fellow men are 
 suffering — that no man has a right to ignore 
 the divine law of brotherhood, and therefore 
 Jesus was right when he said the rich man 
 would not enter heaven, for the rich man is a 
 criminal under divine law as long as he al 
 lows suffering to go unrelieved and as long as 
 he enforces a social system of struggling com- 
 petition fortified by monopoly which compels 
 suffering, while the people's land, the people's 
 roads and the people's money are monopo- 
 lized. 
 
 His palaces and his lordly banquets in sight 
 of human suffering, despair and suicide 
 among his disowned brothers, will rise in tes- 
 timony against him, and a social order will 
 be established that will forbid the uprising 
 and perpetuation of avaricious millionaires 
 to corrupt society and teach a perpetual les- 
 son ol swinish selfishness, while corrupting 
 the government into despotism that should 
 stand for freedom and universal prosperity. 
 It is only a repetition of history — the same 
 drama of wealth corruption and ruin shown 
 
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in Rome and Egypt— the slavery of the 
 masses predicting the destruction of the av- 
 aricious classes as it did in Greece and as it 
 did in South Carolina, but besotted wealth 
 heeds no warning. The white man is more 
 rebellious and revengeful than the black slave. 
 Our good periods end with the century. The 
 clouds gather in 1902 and the thunder rolls 
 in 1909 to introduce the storm. It is a happy 
 thought to me that I shall not be here to 
 witness the coming Friday period. The na- 
 tional demoralization has already gone so 
 far that the philanthropist will not be lis- 
 tened to and crime must go on to its punish- 
 ment. My life is utterly foreign to the pres- 
 ent system, and it will be a relief to leave it. 
 
 Chap. 5-THE LAWS OF PERIODICITY. 
 
 APPLIED TO THE HOURS OF THE DAY. 
 
 Mo ning 'hours feeble — Noon hours strong — Nature 
 droops after six — Youn • and weak must go o bed 
 early — Evil hours a ter 11 p. M — Rest till sunrise — 
 Ruinous effects of work before sunrise — But there is 
 anorher law of li e now discovered ! 
 
 When the twenty-four hours of the day are 
 divided into seven equal parts, each will be 
 three hours and three-sevenths, equal to three 
 hours twenty-five and five-sevenths minutes, 
 counting it 3 hours, 26 minutes, and begin- 
 
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ding the day on an average at 6 a. m., the 
 successive periods will be as follows : 
 
 Sunday— 6 to 9:26. 
 
 Monday— 9:26 to 12:52. 
 
 Tuesday— 12:52 to 4:18. 
 
 Wednesday— 4:18 to 7:44. 
 
 Thursday— 7:44 to 11:10. 
 
 Friday— 11:10 to 2:36. 
 
 Saturday— 2:36 to 6. 
 
 The morning or Sunday hour of youthful 
 freshness and preparation, laying in nourish- 
 ment, and active freedom of movement, but 
 not the hour cf vigor or the best achieve- 
 ment. 
 
 The Monday hours are the hours of energy, 
 achievement and success, the best part of the 
 day. The Tuesday or afternoon hours are 
 good also, but not as good as Monday ; 
 and Wednesday, when fatigue begins is a 
 great deal less favorable, but may carry on 
 and consummate the work of the seven best 
 hours. The Thursday hours of night work 
 are still less favorable and finally demand a 
 pause. 
 
 The Friday hours are the time of rest which 
 should never be invaded by labor. Nature then 
 withdraws her resources; malaria concen- 
 trates near the earth; criminals, burglars and 
 assasins are tempted to engage in crime, and 
 the protective power of daylight and society 
 is gone. The sun beneath the earth has a de- 
 
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pressing power to match his elevating power 
 at noon, and if the moon appears it gives no 
 life, for it has no vital force to give. The Sat- 
 urday hours after three, bring on a more rest- 
 ful condition until daylight; the dews or 
 frosts of the night are giving some freshness 
 to the air. The secretions of the body have 
 purified the blood, and the supply of oxygen 
 in the blood is increased, and the excreta are 
 ready for discharge which should be attended 
 to. The body and brain realize restoration 
 and preparation for activity. 
 
 This corresponds to the ante-natal condi- 
 tion before birth as sunrise corresponds to 
 birth. The condition of the infant is nour- 
 ished and growing. This is the time that we 
 grow and our rest is like the ante-natal rest. 
 We rise in the morning a little taller than 
 when we laid down at night. 
 
 The ante-natal rest is sustained by the 
 mother's life and love and the Saturday rest 
 before day is sustained by the spirit of the uni- 
 verse ; that is the time when in our passive- 
 ness, all things being tranquil, our spirit 
 friends are able to come with blessings, or 
 with visions more vivid as day approaches ; 
 and morning dreams or visions are apt to be 
 true or symbolical of the truth. The Friday 
 period forbids action, and invites us to rely 
 on the oversoul of the universe, just as the 
 forty-first year invites us to caution and re- 
 
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pose instead of action and risk. The Sunday 
 hour of rising after six o'clock is to many 
 people's constitutions an hour of feebleness, 
 when neither brain nor body should be in any 
 way taxed; this I have often realized when 
 debilitated. Even those who are robust 
 should not tax themselves heavily then, for 
 their strength is not fully developed and it 
 would diminish their energy through the day. 
 
 Farmers and laborers who rouse them- 
 selves for labor long before sunrise shorten 
 their lives and exhaust the nervous system. 
 This is peculiarly destructive to children, who, 
 being in their Sunday period, the first seven 
 years, should not be taxed in any way, but 
 should enjoy the morning rest. For one to 
 go to work before breakfast is like putting 
 children to labor; to rouse before day for 
 work is somewhat like taxing the unborn 
 child through its mother. It is taxing the 
 constitution before it is completely renovated. 
 The amount of lunacy and brain exhaustion 
 among farmers is due largely to their early 
 rising, and imposing early rising on their 
 children. Our writers on hygiene should en- 
 deavor to make this extensively known. 
 
 Humanity forbids child labor in factories. 
 It should forbid all labor between ten at 
 night and six in the morning. Indeed seven 
 is an early hour for the factory bell; half-past 
 seven or eight would be better; from eight to 
 
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twelve and from one to five ought to be the 
 limit of labor, but night labor before ten is 
 less injurious than morning labor before 
 eight. 
 
 On the fatal day o r crucifixion Jesus ex- 
 perienced the evil morning hour before Pilate, 
 and the evil afternoon hour in his crucifixion. 
 
 Going to work before day is a disastrous 
 practice — even going to work at sunrise is 
 wrong. Car horses which start early are 
 short lived. Both men and horses that tun 
 milk w r agons, beginning their work at three 
 or four o'clock break down and have to quit. 
 A dairyman told me that he had broken him- 
 self down by getting up for his business at 
 three o'clock and the men he employed never 
 adhered to the business a whole year. Five 
 or six months was enough generally to ex- 
 haust them and a common horse starting out 
 every morning before day would break down 
 in three months, though a very strong one 
 well cared for might last longer. The ap- 
 pearance of the horses shows their, exhausted 
 condition. But after all this is not the whole 
 story. I have discovered another law. Man 
 has two sources of life and two dates. 
 
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Chap. 6.-VITAL PERIODS AND EXTER- 
 NAL PERIODS COMPARED. 
 
 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL AND THE LIGHT OF 
 THE SUN AS SOURCES OF LIFE. 
 
 The beginnings of life are critical periods — The first year 
 a battle — Strong and weak constitutions explained — 
 The two critical perioHs of life — When we have 
 s rcngth and why — Day work and n ght work — 
 Morning weakness and sickness — Precautions for old 
 men — A hygien c discovery — Farm laborers and dai- 
 rymen—Management of children — Afternoon work — 
 Legislators — Table of morning life and evening lie — 
 The two da es, importance of, the one unknown — 
 Nero's mother — Controlling the crea i e process — 
 Hypo ritical su erstition in favor of ignorance — 
 Duty to posterity — Birth dates an 1 life dates com- 
 pared — When vitalitv fails — The Friday periods of 
 life dates — Dangers at birth — The mysterious law — 
 Criti al Friday time at weaning — Birthday advice — 
 Period of gestation — Critical time in 40th year — The 
 vernal equinox— Suppers and breakfasts — Birth dates. 
 
 The Beginning of Life.— Our first en- 
 trance into this world gives us the most im- 
 pressive lesson in periodicity, though we are 
 too young to learn it, and no one has profited 
 by the lesson. 
 
 Our life begins at conception, and this first 
 year of our life comes to its Friday period af- 
 ter birth. Dividing our first year into its 
 seven periods after conception, the sixth or 
 Friday period begins at the 260th day, when 
 
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our mother is preparing to throw us off into 
 the dangers of the outside world, for the per- 
 iod of gestation is usually 270 days (or 280) 
 which brings us into our Friday period and 
 the longer the birth is postponed, the farther 
 it advances us into the Friday period, and the 
 more dangerous it becomes to the mother 
 and the child for she sympathizes with her 
 offspring in the Friday period. It is a critical 
 period and the church is accustomed to pray 
 for the safety of women in child-bed. In this 
 critical period we lose the protection and 
 nourishment of the mother's constitution, 
 and are cast forth into serious dangers — im- 
 mediate peril of health and life which we usu- 
 ally manifest by the cry of alarm. The act of 
 birth has exposed us to many accidents and 
 and calamities, and the earlier it begins, to 
 avoid the Friday period, the better for our 
 safety, but the evil days must be realized. It 
 is the most tragical period of our whole ex- 
 istence, for unless the circumstances are fav- 
 orable, half the children born die in the first 
 six years. Starting in the unfavorable Fri- 
 day period of our first year of existence, we 
 enter upon our life of exposure in its Sunday 
 period of exterior weakness, and in the Fri- 
 day month of our complete life. Hence the 
 first six weeks of the infant are a very critical 
 period, being all in the Friday month. 
 This history shows that we have two per- 
 
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iods to calculate. The life period, which is 9 
 months longer, as it begins that much earlier, 
 and the day period, which commences at 
 birth. As the consequences of these two per- 
 iods extend through life, they give us an im- 
 portant lesson. When the original life force 
 is strong, it gives us ability at particular 
 times which differ from the day force, and 
 when it is feeble we must depend on the day 
 iorce and fail when that fails. 
 
 The first 3% hours of the morning have lit- 
 tle strength for the day life and less for the 
 spirit life or vitality. Nothing great is done 
 at this time, and all great exertion is exhaust- 
 ing and ultimately destructive. Old men in 
 in their fortnightly Friday, when day life has 
 lost its power, should do little in the fore- 
 noon. After a strong breakfast they should 
 retire to their couch and commune with their 
 spirit friends and God in a comfortably warm 
 apartment with pure air, which must be rein- 
 forced with oxygen and ozone. 
 
 The detrimental effect of morning labor 
 seems to me an important hygienic discovery, 
 for I have never seen or heard any allusion to 
 it by hygienists, practical men or miscellane- 
 ous writers and yet the facts are patent. 
 
 Anyone may observe the premature exhaus- 
 tion and vital dullness of farm laborers in 
 comparison with people of the city who ob- 
 serve later hours. The rapid exhaustion of 
 
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life in horses of the street cars is a familiar 
 fact, and still more remarkable is the ex- 
 hausted condition of horses and drivers of 
 milk wagons that start their labors long be- 
 fore daylight to serve customers in the morn- 
 ing. There is a great contrast too between 
 the farmers' work horses that start early, 
 and the saddle and carriage horses that ob- 
 serve later hours. 
 
 Calling up children early to study before 
 breakfast or immediately after is an iniquity. 
 No school should begin before nine o'clock. 
 
 The maximum of this folly is reached in the 
 unnatural hours of monasteries. 
 
 There is a great deal of night service of po- 
 licemen, servants and railroad employes 
 which is highly injurious. 
 
 Strenuous exertion in the afternoon hours 
 is well borne by those of strong vital tempera- 
 ment, for it is their best time — and they are 
 vigorous till twelve p. m. 
 
 The greatest mental peformances of strong 
 men are in the late afternoon and evening. 
 Legislative bodies do well to meet at 10 in 
 the forenoon and continue until 10 or 11 at 
 night or later. 
 
 We may speak of the two sources of life as 
 morning life and evening life. They run to- 
 gether as follows, beginning: 
 
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MORNING LIFE. EVENING LIFE. 
 
 6 a. m. — Sunday, Friday. 
 
 9:26— Monday, Saturday. 
 
 12:52 — Tuesday, Sunday. 
 
 Constitutions strong in the life power, date 
 from nine months before birth, as their most 
 important period. Their native strength is 
 favorable to longevity. 
 
 Constitutions with a feeble endowment of 
 spirit or life must rely chiefly on the sun force 
 of the day, food, air and sunshine, and date 
 from birth and sunrise. Their force declines 
 with the sun and they should retire early, as 
 the animals do. They are unfit for night 
 work. Their best energy is from 9:30 to 1 P. 
 m., which is moderately maintained till six 
 or seven. They should retire not later than 
 9 p. m. and must have absolute rest from 
 11:30 to 3. 
 
 The highly vital class date their vigorous 
 life not from sunrise to one p. m, but from 1 
 p. m. to 8, with a prolongation in good 
 vigor to 12 or 1 p. m. They endure night 
 work with ease. 
 
 VITAL PERIODS AND EXTERNAL PERIODS COM- 
 PARED. 
 
 Studies of human life heretofore have been 
 based upon our birth. Prom that date we 
 study our relations to coming years, coming 
 
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months and coming days. But looking deeper 
 into the subject I perceived that there was 
 another and a very influential date. 
 
 We do not begin life in birth. Life began 
 nine months earlier, by conception, and those 
 nine months are decisive. They are the most 
 important portion of our life, when the foun- 
 dation of our destiny is laid, and astrology 
 must be an incomplete science until it takes 
 cognizance of conception as well as birth. 
 And humanitarian science is a very imperfect 
 sort of sanctimonious quackery as long as it 
 neglects the prenatal life which determines 
 the fate of coming generations by the impres- 
 sions made. These are our permanent nature 
 and if they are very evil impressions they 
 may give us a wretched destiny, which, cen- 
 turies in the higher world, may not be able 
 to overcome. 
 
 The mother of Nero (Agrippina) was a sister 
 of the monster emperor Caligula, endowed 
 with a similar nature, and the evil impress 
 she made in her offspring was rewarded by 
 being murdered by her own son who is prob- 
 ably still in the dark regions provided for 
 criminals in the spirit w^orld. 
 
 To control the creation of humanity is a 
 philanthropy beyond all others. But they 
 who lead in such a reform are liable to be as- 
 sailed by all the combined ignorance and big- 
 otry which hides itself under a hypocritical 
 
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mask of pretended Christianity, and seeks to 
 persecute all who bring the discussion of such 
 subjects before the people who are interested 
 instead of having it confined to the medical 
 profession, to whom it is a question of pro- 
 fessional business. 
 
 I will show presently how to perform your 
 duty to posterity and insure children who 
 may rise up and call you blessed ; but just 
 now i must show how the dates of concep- 
 tion and birth bear upon our destiny and 
 upon the proper use of our time. 
 
 We have nine months with our mother, be- 
 fore we depend on air, food and sunshine for 
 our earthly life, and have to count our earthly 
 destiny from sun dates. 
 
 It is more important to be well conceived 
 than to be well born, for that conception 
 may carry us to the loftiest destiny and if an 
 evil conception our doom is sealed. 
 
 Both conception and birth give critical 
 dates, and both should be studied to deter- 
 mine our life periods and policy in years and 
 months. 
 
 As conception is usually nine months earlier 
 than birth the reader will perceive that one 
 who is born on January 1st was probably 
 conceived April 1st in the preceding year. 
 The month of conception therefore comes, 
 though nine months earlier, three months 
 later in the same year than the month of 
 
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birth, and as to monthly periods we must 
 put its recurrence three months later, but as 
 to annual periods nine months earlier. 
 
 Hence when my evil Friday 7 sun period came, 
 in September and October, 1855, my evil vital 
 period came in December and January, 1854. 
 I had not then thought of the vital periods 
 but I recollect some affections of the lungs in 
 winter — and that winter has not been to me 
 a beneficial season in health — colds and pleu- 
 risy being my liability. 
 
 Hence in predicting for ourselves or friends 
 we must recollect that evils in health come 
 nine months earlier than the external rela- 
 tions of the evils of business and exposures, 
 but three months later in each year. 
 
 The failure in vital energy may be a predis- 
 posing cause to ill luck in business relations, 
 but usually the external depression precedes 
 and becomes a cause of the internal. Worry in 
 business brings on worry in health. 
 
 We understand this better by going back 
 to causes. Unborn life begins nine months 
 before exterior life or birth, under the protec- 
 tion of love. That protecting power breaks 
 down at the end of the ninth month, 270 or 
 280 days, and expels us into the dangers and 
 hardships of the exterior atmospheric life in 
 which we have to generate our own warmth. 
 This is the sixth or Friday period of the in- 
 
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terior life whieh may begin at the 260th day 
 or end of the 5th period and last 52 days. 
 
 From the 260th to the 270th day is usually 
 the beginning of our Friday trouble, as the 
 maternal constitution is unable to shelter us 
 any longer. We are thrust out in distress — 
 the sooner the better — even if we come a little 
 sooner before Friday it is a little better. 
 Parturition should never be delayed — for the 
 longer delayed the worse it is for mother and 
 child; anything beyond ten days is evil and a 
 delay from the 260th to the 300th day is dan- 
 gerous and probably fatal. The 304th day 
 would, according to the periodic law, be the 
 most disastrous period. 
 
 Hence the external life begins in distress and 
 weakness, as it begins in the Friday time of 
 vitality — (though it is really the indispensable 
 influence of a new life by oxygen) a large num- 
 ber dying in the first month of birth. That 
 Friday time is a much more serious danger 
 than a battlefield or most attacks of fever if 
 rightly treated. 
 
 The exterior life is then at its beginning or 
 Sunday period, a period of great weakness at 
 first, handicapped by the sudden loss of sup- 
 port from maternal vitality. Thus great ex- 
 haustion is precipitated upon great weakness 
 and nothing but the tenderest care keeps half 
 the infants alive through the first five years. 
 
 Why this should reappear through life at 
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the same day of the month, science cannot 
 fully explain at present, but we know that 
 there is a common law of periodicity in dis- 
 ease. Hay fever is very punctual in its re- 
 turns and many other constitutional affec- 
 tions are liable to recurrence. All we can do 
 is to recognize the law as a fact — a fact that 
 governs all worlds. 
 
 The internal life gets through its Friday 
 period and Saturday period in 104 days and 
 in the third month or Sunday, intelligence be- 
 gins to dawn where only rest and growth 
 had been observed. 
 
 In nine months or even 260 days, the Fri : 
 day time comes to the external life, while the 
 internal life has gained substantial strength 
 from its best periods, Monday, Tuesday and 
 Wednesday. This is the time when the sup- 
 port from the mother's breast must cease and 
 the infant must learn to rely on other food — 
 a critical change. To continue nursing longer 
 than nine months is to overtax the mother, 
 especially if she has any labor, and by sym- 
 pathy injure the child. Neither gestation nor 
 nursing can run into the Friday period with 
 impunity. The nine month law or Friday 
 law T must be obeyed. 
 
 We may infer that at first when our mother 
 drops us and at our second Friday period she 
 weans us the cause is sufficient, but why 
 does it come regularly at that time. 
 
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Sunday birth anniversaries must be associ- 
 ated with Friday anniversaries of exhaustion 
 from the loss of mother. Hence our birth 
 periods are not auspicious, but require care, 
 rest and protection, and birthdays should 
 never be celebrated with any extravagance 
 but should be pleasant, social occasions, to 
 receive marks of friendship and affection, 
 avoiding drunken revelry, or exposure and 
 catching cold. 
 
 Like other unlucky times it should be shel- 
 tered by all possible prudence and friendship. 
 It is no time for bold enterprises, for the vital 
 force is not well sustained, according to per- 
 iodic law. 
 
 The period of gestation or intra-uterine life 
 is a period of benevolence from the maternal 
 constitution, in which the foundation of lon- 
 gevity is laid. The elephant has almost two 
 years of gestation and two years of suckling 
 infancy and his constitution is so built up that 
 he even exceeds man in longevity. Short lived 
 animals have short periods of gestation and 
 are very prolific, like the rabbit, which the ele- 
 phant is not. 
 
 It is with human life as with human enter- 
 prises, which are in their most delicate stage 
 at their beginnings, and probably may follow 
 the human laws of periodicity, but that ques- 
 tion I have not practically tested. Yet in ref- 
 erence to this republic the human law has 
 
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been and will again be verified early in the 
 20th century. 
 
 The practical inference from the study of 
 vital periodicity is that we should be ex- 
 tremely careful of our health in the 40th year 
 of life as well as the forty-first for it is the 
 forty-first after conception— and in the third 
 and fourth months after the Friday period 
 of the year — that is — beginning three months 
 later, and lasting 52 days — the worst day be- 
 ing about the 134th from the beginning of 
 Friday time of our external life. Thu»< our 
 Friday vital deficiency reappears at the three 
 months later than the Friday time of our ex- 
 ternal relations or sun periods and runs for 
 52 days. 
 
 Having arrived at this conclusion by pe- 
 riodicity for myself I learned that it was con- 
 firmed by astrology — and thus periodicity 
 and astrology put me in an unfavorable con- 
 dition in December and January 1896-7, 
 which I am now verifying in great debility 
 but taking great care. Thus as the Sunday 
 period of day life, which with me commences 
 Dec. 11, is handicapped by the arrival at the 
 same time of the Friday period of internal 
 life — it must require especial caution in avoid- 
 ing exposure or heavy taxation. 
 
 The reader will understand that the three 
 months difference between exterior and inter- 
 ior periods correspond nearly to two sep- 
 
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titrtal periods of the year, which enables the 
 first day of the vital Friday to correspond to 
 the first exterior Sunday and its last to reach 
 the exterior Monday. 
 
 Another valuable inference is that sunrise 
 and the vernal equinox or sunrise of the year 
 are critical periods like our birth days. The 
 lassitude of the vernal equinox is sometimes 
 jocosely called the spring fever, and suggests 
 the idea of taking a little medicine to help the 
 constitution. 
 
 I attach great hygienic importance to the 
 suggestion of protecting our early morning 
 hours. As the evening and afternoon periods, 
 dating from the origin of life have a closer re- 
 lation to vitality and longevity, they deserve 
 more attention in that respect. Hence we 
 may say that early morning work is more ex- 
 hausting and ultimately more injurious than 
 night work. I do not believe that indoor oc- 
 cupations running to midnight or later are so 
 unfavorable to life as occupations that begin 
 before sunrise. Night occupations require the 
 exclusion of outside influences which depend 
 on the course of the sun and early morning 
 occupations should be protected from the 
 early morning fogs and malaria and especially 
 from early morning hunger. Breakfast should 
 be an early and invigorating meal of warm 
 food. Hungry exhaustion before breakfast 
 may be opposed by the custom in some coun- 
 
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tries of having tea at six and a supper at nine. 
 A similar object is attained by having a sub- 
 stantial dinner quite late, from five to nine. 
 The tendency of the fashion has been to make 
 the dinner more and more late. An interval 
 of twelve hours between the evening and 
 morning nourishment is too long. 
 
 In the Friday period of long life, 70 to 84, 
 (especially 82-83) there is a partial protec- 
 tion in the fact that the Wednesday vital per- 
 iod is present. 
 
 It also follows as the vital period is nine 
 months earlier that in reference to health the 
 evil time may appear nine months earlier than 
 in the day period, not in the Friday months 
 of the 41st year but nine months earlier. 
 Hence t^e beginning of the 41st year may be 
 as unfavorable in some respects as its Friday 
 months. The Friday months of day life re- 
 late more to external relations and the Fri- 
 day at the beginning of the year to personal 
 conditions. 
 
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Chap. 7— THE FORTNIGHTLY PERIODS 
 OF A LONG LIFE. 
 
 Long lives require a longer rule but do not suppress the 
 short rule — Second cycle a real improvement and 
 progress, but a d< cline in earthly external affairs — 
 The" long scale to 99— When decline begins — The au- 
 tumnal period — The winter after 77 — The long crisis 
 80 to 82— The long scale corresponds to universal 
 experience — Lessons from tables of mortality — D ath 
 our best fi ii nd. 
 
 Any failure to realize some adversity in the 
 41st year, which rarely occurs > may have an 
 explanation aside from interference of others 
 or astrological reasons referring to distant 
 periods. It was forced on my attention in 
 the case of Judge A. and ascribed to the 
 vStrength of his constitution which gave him 
 a long life. This led me to consider the des- 
 tiny of those who occupy two cycles. If we 
 consider the septimal division of a life attain- 
 ing two cycles a life of ninety-eight or a hun- 
 dred years, it leads to an important principle 
 which at first I had overlooked, supposing 
 the second cycle would be an improvement on 
 the first, as Monday is an improvement on 
 Sunda}', and if the second cycle leads to the 
 higher world the great improvement is mani- 
 fest, but if it is merely an extension of earth 
 life, it requires us to consider the entire life as 
 
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a unit, subject to septimal division, and the 
 result of such a mode oi analysis corresponds 
 with the well known facts of life, as the last 
 forty-nine years must be greatly inferior in 
 energy and success to the first forty-nine. 
 
 Supposing two cycles or ninety-eight years 
 to be about the normal extent of the healthy 
 life, which is seldom reached or exceeded, but 
 which may be attained when the world is civ- 
 ilized, its septimal division gives us the double 
 seven, the fourteen years or fortnightly pe- 
 riod, and places a great decline after seventy 
 years. Thus : 
 
 Sunday— 1 to 14. 
 
 Monday— 14 to 28. 
 
 Tuesday— 28 to 42. 
 
 Wednesday — 42 to 56. 
 
 Thursday— 56 to 70. 
 
 Friday— 70 to 84. 
 
 Saturday-84 to 98. 
 
 In this arrangement the first twenty-one 
 years are evidently the auspicious beginning, 
 in which we receive the endowment of all we 
 have, through Sunda} 7 and the best half of 
 Monday, by birth, nurture and education. 
 The period of most vigorous struggle extends 
 irom the middle of Monday to the middle of 
 Wednesday, from twentj'-one to forty-nine — 
 the middle of life, when the period of a gentle 
 decline begins, extending from forty-nine to 
 fifty-six, when the decline becomes marked. 
 
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Thursday or fifty-six to seventy being the au- 
 tumnal period compared to a year, when the 
 harvest should be gathered, and as nature 
 has no new achievements or growths we can 
 but hold on to our harvest and take care of 
 it. At seventy the cool period or Friday be- 
 gins, extending to eighty-four — nature no 
 longer builds up new forces — the sun of life is 
 withdrawing from us, passing the autumnal 
 equinox. The fiery ardor of youth is gone. 
 The energies exhausted by any labor have no 
 foundation to draw upon — the cold winter 
 approaching is oppressive to the old but be- 
 comes more spiritual as earthly vitality de- 
 clines. Our remnant of vitality must be pro- 
 tected or it will soon be exhausted—such is 
 my condition now. The decline of vitality 
 precedes the external decline, and birth dates 
 are a critical time. 
 
 The Friday period, 70 to 84, brings its sixth 
 crisis from eighty to eighty-two as eighty-two 
 to eighty-four is the seventh or Saturday end, 
 for in the long life calculation we go by four- 
 teens. Hence in my own case, born in 1814, 
 my Friday period, seventy to eighty-four, ar- 
 rives in 1884 to 1898 and comes to its crisis 
 in my present, eighty-second year. As in the 
 fortnightly calculation of a long life, the sep- 
 timal periods would be not fifty-two but one 
 hundred and four — hence from 104 to 208 
 days prior to Dec. 11th, 1896, would be my 
 
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 WOfst period, which would extend from May 
 20 to Aug. 29, which I have fully verified. It 
 was a dark period of financial trouble, incipk 
 ent paralysis and a little discord, and I realized 
 how little sympathy a life devoted to scien- 
 tific truth receives from the mankind of this 
 world and how desirable a higher home has 
 become. 
 
 I may pass through this crisis into the Sat- 
 urday end cf the fourteen year period, but I 
 have no expectation of completing the Satur- 
 day period, as the Friday period has nearly 
 exhausted me, unless my reinforcement from 
 the higher world should be truly marvelous. 
 I realize daily that they are sustaining me, 
 and their responsive sounds when I lie down, 
 or when I write or think anything that spec- 
 ially pleases them assures me of guardianship. 
 They tell me that too that writing this little 
 book was a wise undertaking, as it is not too 
 far from common life. The Saturday end, 
 1896 to 1898, has its favorable vital time in 
 the summer, which may sustain me through 
 the year. 
 
 Certainly this fortnightly view of a double 
 cycle or fully developed life corresponds with 
 the usual experience of mankind — very few 
 have much energy after eighty. Neither Bis- 
 marck or Gladstone are their country's lead- 
 ers. 
 
 Life is in its most critical time at birth 
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but improves so that those who have lived to 
 ten have a much better prospect than those 
 just born. The prospect of life has increased 
 ten years and one month by the Carlisle table 
 and fourteen years seven months by the 
 Northampton table. 
 
 The mean duration of life at seventy years 
 from the reports of twenty offices is eight 
 and a half years, a little over the first half of 
 the Friday period. At eighty it is four and 
 three-quarters years, a few months beyond 
 the end of the Friday period. At ninety it is 
 two years and a third. Thus at the begin- 
 ning of our Friday period we may expect to 
 realize seventeen twenth-eighths of the pe- 
 riod, but if we live ten years longer may 
 reach the end of it. In the decimal periods, 
 from ten years onward, the viability or pros- 
 pect of life decreases with some regularity. 
 Thus if at the age of ten there is a probability 
 of living fifty years longer, at the age of 
 twenty we should expect only forty-two 
 years more. The reserve force or possible 
 longevity, which at twenty is estimated as 
 good for forty-two years, declines so that 
 at the beginning of the Friday period, at the 
 age of seventy, the viabilitv is only eight 
 years and a half-thus life continually declines 
 from its first full development. It rises to its 
 maximum in the first three periods, which are 
 the most favorable of all, and declines until 
 
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it is exhausted. But the table shows that 
 those who have attained an advanced age had 
 a much greater original vitality than those 
 who have not survived. 
 
 Such is the history of the periods of earth 
 life. But man has an eternal life, and the sec- 
 ond cycle, thougit is a decline as to the earth, 
 is a progress as to his eternal life — an increase 
 in wisdom, in the development of his soul, in 
 the control of his passions, and if he has lived 
 rightly, in the maturity of his happiness. He 
 should then be ready to depart at the end of 
 his century to the better life unless he has 
 some grand work for humanity to complete. 
 The angel of death is his best friend. 
 
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Chap. 8-1>IvRI0DICITY OF IMMORTAL 
 LIFE AND PARENTAL INFLUENCES. 
 
 Periodicity is evolution, or progress to a higher career — 
 Earthly misfortunes of life help the higher life — We 
 arc snatched away from a mismanaged life — A life 
 ruled from above is not snatched away — Great life a 
 possibility — New aspects and sources of life, the 
 spirit and the sun — Sunrise and sunset and the equi- 
 nox — Heaven comes as earth recedes — Earth life year 
 — December 8 to January 29 its dark period — Life at 
 the equator — The calendar year — Showing sun life — 
 Statistics of suicide illustrate periodicity — External 
 periods belong to the animal nature — Very interesting 
 statistics — Philosophy of heat and cold in climates — 
 Life from the spirit world differs from sun life — Won- 
 derful relations of the two lives explained — Practical 
 inference — Lessons from the two forces — Cause of 
 the jolly night time— The proper bedtime — Dangers of 
 the night. 
 
 Effect of marriage at different ages of offspring— Rela- 
 tions of parents and offspring. 
 
 The periodicity that surveys mortal life in 
 periods of seven or fourteen years is not the 
 whole periodicity of man. 
 
 The fundamental conception of periodic- 
 ity is evolution or continual progress with 
 variation arid subsidence as in wave-like mo- 
 tion — Sundays of commencement continually 
 receiving for new progress as well as the use 
 and full of Mondays and Fridays. Monday 
 and Tuesday the crest of the wave — Friday 
 the valley between waves. 
 
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The 98 years in 14 periods represent an 
 earthly career coming to its end when over- 
 powered by adverse influences. But when 
 the career is ended a higher career begins and 
 the whole progress of life is toward that 
 higher career in another sphere of progression 
 and the two careers widely differ. 
 
 That which seems the misfortune of the 
 earthly career, breaking it down, is an intro- 
 duction to the higher career, and may there- 
 fore be considered in one sense a blessing. 
 The sickness in which earth fades from our 
 sight is the daw^ning of a higher life, an easy 
 transfer. It may be compared to the decay 
 and bursting the seed in the cold ground 
 which enables the plant to reach sunshine 
 and developes its flower — yes and that plant 
 goes on as it falls in frost to a higher spirit- 
 ual life. 
 
 The second cycle I regarded as an improve- 
 ment on the first by the law of progress, but 
 the second cycle leads to death and diminishes 
 our capacities for earth life. In the earthly 
 
 view it mav seem unfortunate as a decline — 
 
 j 
 
 but in a larger view it is a higher develop- 
 ment or unfoldment of w r isdom and nearer 
 approach to our highest life. 
 
 Thus the decline of the earthly being the 
 advance of the heavenly, progress is the con- 
 tinual law — from the things of earth in battle 
 and toil to things of heaven in peace and joy. 
 
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The convulsive struggles of earth life re- 
 lease us more promptly, and the benevolent 
 angel of death takes us out of suffering, but 
 a life blessed by closer relations to the higher 
 world has a more pleasant and healthful pro- 
 gress and does not need to be snatched away 
 from earthly toils until the normal end of 
 earth life for animal as well as vegetable life 
 has a normal limit. Yet it would seem 
 there might come an ampler development of 
 humanity which might, like the trees of a 
 thousand years deep rooted in earth, and ex- 
 panded to the sky live through the centuries. 
 
 TWO LIVES. 
 
 Man has two lives, temporal and eternal, 
 or rather two aspects of life. 
 
 One is visible, the other invisible. One is il- 
 luminated by the visible sun — the other by 
 the invisible spirit. 
 
 The one flourishes in the sunshine and 
 declines in its absence. Its two halves are di- 
 vided by sunrise and sunset in each day — by 
 the vernal and autumnal equinox in each 
 year. 
 
 The invisible life comes in as the visible de- 
 clines. It overhangs the hours of darkness 
 on earth, and occupies the " night-side of 
 Nature.' ' It over arches the wintry half of 
 the year. It comes nearer as the terrestrial 
 life recedes, and when the terrestrial life is 
 
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gone the spiritual life is in its glory, and the 
 farther it extends away from the terrestual 
 sphere the more glorious it becomes. Earth 
 life is like a morning to prepare for the heav- 
 enly life. 
 
 When earth life sinks in calamity we may, 
 if we will, approach nearer the heavenly life. 
 
 It is one of the blessings of sickness and 
 calamities that as we surrender our physical 
 forces and passions we may cultivate the 
 nobler sentiments and acquire patience and 
 humility. 
 
 The earth life, beginning its day at sunrise, 
 which ends at sunset, reaches its Zenith of 
 the year in the summer solstice, June 22d, 
 and its Nadir at the winter solstice, Dec. 
 25th, when nature withholds all supplies of 
 life, but reaches its evil Friday period near its 
 end, 104 days before the vernal equinox and 
 extends from December 8 to January 29 — its 
 Saturday from Jan. 29 to March 22. This is 
 the most spiritual period as shown by the rec- 
 ord of suicides in San Francisco. From Dec. 
 8 to Jan. 29 is a spiritual period, but it is the 
 the suspension of all vegetable life. Nature 
 then gives man no assistance. 
 
 Thus in the earthly or business like view of 
 annual periodicity its most evil period is the 
 period of spiritual life. The heavenly and the 
 earthly life are widely different and the rich 
 man has rather a poor prospect in heaven, 
 
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But there is a view of life which corres- 
 ponds nearly with our calendar year, as it be- 
 gins properly at Dec. 25, the winter solstice. 
 
 As the differences of a few days is not very im- 
 portant, we may count by the calendar year 
 for convenience, which is six days in advance, 
 and deduct six : 
 
 Sunday— to Feb. 21. 
 
 Monday — to April 14. 
 
 Tuesday— June 5. 
 
 Wednesday— July 27. 
 
 Thursday— Sept. 17. 
 
 Friday— Nov. 8. 
 
 Saturday — Dec. 31. 
 
 At the equator there is no division of the 
 year into terrestrial and spiritual halves. It 
 is all terrestrial, and the only spiritual relief 
 from day life is in its nights, which vary little 
 from the half of 24 hours. 
 
 This indicates a fullness of animal life in 
 tropical regions and probable predominance 
 of the animal nature, which is certainly re- 
 alized in Central Africa and in some cannibal 
 islands, but this may be counteracted by the 
 superior nervous susceptibility of hot cli- 
 mates — making the nightly visits of spiritual 
 beings more easy. 
 
 The evil effects of tropical climates appear 
 in the lowlands and not in the mountains. 
 
 These principles are further illustrated by 
 the periodicity of suicide, crime and insanity. 
 
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Suicidal periodicity. 
 
 The statistics of suicide in San Francisco, 
 as given by the Health Department reports 
 of 1896 t correspond with the law of periodi- 
 city. For this calculation which relates to 
 the spiritual condition of man, the year may 
 be regarded as beginning at the winter sol- 
 stice, or return of the higher powers, be- 
 ginning Dec. 25, which ancient nations cele- 
 brated as the birth of the year — or on the 
 first of January, which is six days later. 
 
 The first six months to the end of June 
 would correspond to three and a halt periods, 
 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and the first half 
 of Wednesday. This is the whole favorable 
 half of the vital period. The second six 
 months from June to January, would corres- 
 pond to the unfavorable half, Thursday, Fri- 
 day and Saturday, with the last half of 
 Wednesday. 
 
 The first or favorable vital half had but fif- 
 ty-eight suicides and the second half had 
 ninety-four, thus the animal spirits rise as the 
 sun is approaching and fall as it goes away. 
 In the last three months of the year as it 
 ends, the sun has gone far away and the sui- 
 cides were forty-six, but when the new year 
 began, the sun coming north, the suicides fell 
 from from forty-six to eighteen — the last three 
 months being twice as evil as the first three. 
 
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Friday and Saturday were two and a half 
 times as evil as Sunday and Monday. 
 
 The beginning is far better than the ending. 
 
 So it is in human life. The first twenty- 
 eight years or fortnightly Sunday and Mon- 
 day of a long life are far superior to Friday 
 and Saturday or 70 to 98. 
 
 The external periods of material life seem to 
 belong to the animal nature, as the internal 
 or vital periods belong to the spiritual na- 
 ture, and English statistics published by Dr. 
 Laycock of the York Dispensary, confirm 
 this, as they show the maximum number of 
 suicides in summer, minimum in winter. The 
 deaths from drunkenness at London reached 
 their maximum in summer, minimum in win- 
 ter. The cases of insanity reached their max- 
 imum in June and July, their minimum in De- 
 cember and January, The crimes against 
 persons reached their maximum in June, 
 their minimum in January. But the with- 
 drawal of the sun in winter makes it a Fri- 
 day period for animal life and shows an in- 
 creased number of deaths in Belgian sta- 
 tistics. 
 
 Thus it seems that the more the animal na- 
 ture flourishes under the patronage of the 
 sun, the more it overpowers the spiritual na- 
 ture of interior life. This seems to be verified 
 also in nations, as the people of the North 
 Temperate Zone have generally a higher mor- 
 
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ality than those nearer the tropics, and have 
 conquered them in conflict. The Greenlanders 
 contrast favorably with the people of Daho- 
 mey, who seem the vilest specimens of human- 
 ity the world has ever produced, vastly infer- 
 ior to the Kaffirs of South Africa, and the 
 Swedes and Norwegians compare favorably 
 with the Italians— the Scotch with the Eng- 
 lish. The tigers, lions and poisonous ser- 
 pents of tropical regions which cause so great 
 a loss of life in India, have no correspondence 
 in northern climes, and the Thugs of India and 
 cannibals of Pacific islands have no anal- 
 ogues in the north. 
 
 The sun born luxury and influence of hot 
 climates seem less favorable to virtue and 
 health than the wintrj' influence of northern 
 climates. The greatest mass of corruption 
 and crime of ancient Europe was in Rome 
 and around the Mediterranean — in Spain and 
 the Barbary Coast of Africa. Bonaparte, 
 Caeesar, Scipio, Hannibal, Alexander the Great 
 and the Roman Emperors belonged to that 
 region— so did the warlike Jews and the mod- 
 ern Turks. 
 
 Heat is essential to animal life, but in excess 
 is destructive like all other manifestations of 
 animal force. Its worst effects are produced 
 in combination with water. Warmth and 
 moisture promote putrefaction and malaria, 
 
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originating malignant fevers. Whatever pro- 
 motes decomposition is unfriendly to life. 
 Where warmth and moisture abound evap- 
 oration produces a negative condition ex- 
 hausting to life, which is common in summer 
 and favors suicide. Diseases increase a few 
 days after rains. Life is more vigorous and 
 active in a dry atmosphere which retains the 
 warmth and electricity of the body which 
 water rapidly conducts away producing lan- 
 guor and debility. Heat and moisture com- 
 bined produce sunstroke. A cold climate 
 protects the constitution by freezing out the 
 water of the atmosphere thus protecting us 
 against a debilitating influence and acting as 
 an antiseptic which protects life like anti- 
 septic medicines. 
 
 Thus we perceive why cool climates, frosty 
 nights and mountain heights are beneficial to 
 life and sustain the spiritual nature which is 
 life. The highest development of humanity 
 is in the mountains. Switzerland and Norway 
 lead in Europe and Scotland in Great Britain. 
 The Alleghanies and Rocky mountain region 
 are superior to the sea coasts and river 
 valleys. 
 
 Of our two lives one is drawn from the 
 earth — the other from heaven. One is sus- 
 tained by food, air and sunshine as long as 
 they are necessary. The other comes from 
 
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the great fountain of life which invigorates 
 the human race. It conies to us through our 
 parents. One is transient, the other eternal. 
 Prenatal science shows that the interior vital 
 force which originated from the spirit world 
 has different periods from the exterior or sun 
 force. 
 
 The life force, which dates from conception, 
 reaches its minimum or Friday period at 
 birth or just before it. Birth or entrance 
 upon exterior life and sunshine corresponds 
 to sunrise. The approach of birth being like 
 the approach of day — an unfortunate trans- 
 fer oi life from dependence, on life to depend- 
 ence on food. 
 
 Consequently the life force is to the day 
 force as Friday to Sunday — two periods in 
 its vear. The beginning of the day is necessa- 
 rily the low period of the life force, for life has 
 been inactive in the night, and the 12 hours 
 past, from six or seven at night to six or 
 seven a.m. produces a lowering of vital force. 
 Hence the breakfast should be taken immedi- 
 ately on rising. It was a custom in Lou- 
 isiana to ward off fevers by taking a cup of 
 coffee with a lemon in bed before rising, which 
 has a restorative effect on the liver. 
 
 When the wife rises early to make the fire 
 and prepare breakfast for the family she is 
 undulv taxed. Hygienic wisdom would sug- 
 gest that the fire should be prepared at night, 
 
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needing only a match to start it in the morn- 
 ing. The breakfast too should be prepared 
 and placed on the table at night, so that a 
 lamp could in a few minutes warm the coffee, 
 tea or meat in the morning. Morning tasks 
 on rising are very injurious to delicate consti- 
 tutions. The lamp chimney with a cross 
 ( sold in the shops ) or even a pair of scissors 
 on its top is sometimes effectual for the little 
 cooking ot a small family. But good food is 
 very necessary in the morning — a substantial 
 breakfast. 
 
 As the vital hours follow the day hours tw^o 
 periods behind, this fact gives us the new 
 light on periodicity which I have recently dis- 
 covered . 
 
 The day force is in its Monday maximum 
 from half past nine to one, but this is only 
 the Saturday period of the life force. The 
 Tuesday period from, from one to half past 
 four is but the Sunday period of the life force, 
 and its Monday period begins about 4.20 
 — its Monday and Tuesday periods reach- 
 ing to half past eleven p. m. 
 
 These vital periods become more important 
 in proportion as the day force declines in its 
 Friday periods or in advanced life and I have 
 lately realized it. As my day force or earth 
 life has declined in advanced age I have to 
 rely on the life force and find myself accord- 
 ingly extremely weak and unfit for any duty 
 
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in the morning hours, when the life force is in 
 Friday and the Sunday day force in its Fri- 
 day year, so that I have to lie down after 
 breakfast. My vitality increases with the 
 day's progress and from four to nine I am 
 competent to intellectual labor, owing to the 
 Monday and Tuesday of the life force and 
 Wednesday and Thursday of the day force. 
 
 I find it best to stop at nine in the first half 
 of the Tuesday vitality as the day force is 
 then in its Thursday decline and longer con- 
 tinuance would increase the morning weak- 
 ness. 
 
 The vitality of the human race carries them 
 every day beyond the limits natural to the day- 
 force, producing vigor late in the afternoon 
 when the sun power is declining, and carrying 
 them far into protects the night's cold nega- 
 tive hours. 
 
 Instead of using the daylight of early morn- 
 ing hours at and before sunrise they prolong 
 the active day far in the night, and from five 
 to ten p. m. is perhaps the most active and 
 jolly period in the 24 hours. The Wednesday 
 period of vitality, extending from half past 
 eleven to three, is a favorite time among fash- 
 ionables, although it is a Friday period of 
 day life and therefore should be avoided. But 
 such dissipation may be endured by those 
 who have a great life force, though it would 
 be destructive to those who have not, 
 
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It is the common impression of prudent 
 people that our habits should be regulated as 
 the sun indicates — that our labors should 
 slacken and end in the afternoon, the night 
 given to refreshing society or amusement and 
 an early retirement, very little beyond eight, 
 never later later than nine, which is the aver- 
 age end of the Wednesday period. Eleven 
 thirty is considered a very late hour, and it 
 is, for it reaches the Friday limit of the day 
 force and all after night is in the declining 
 Thursday period. Early retirement is neces- 
 sary for those who have not a strong vi- 
 tality. 
 
 Nine o'clock is a judicious limit to protect 
 the day force, but a great many disregard it 
 for the reasons given that we have an in- 
 terior life force which may carry us beyond 
 the sun limits, and those who are largely en- 
 dowed with it may indulge in nocturnal 
 hours, but no one should do this in whom 
 life has been weakened by its Friday periods, 
 whatever he may have done under twenty- 
 five. Nor should children ever go beyond the 
 limits of the day force for they are in the 
 weakness of the Sunday period and should 
 go to bed at eight and not rise earlier than 
 seven. 
 
 These principles show us the dangers of 
 the nocturnal revelry of the profligate even if 
 intemperance and sensuality are excluded, for 
 
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the latter half of the night is not fit for ac- 
 tion and must be given to rest and restora- 
 tion. The sun born power comes to its Fri- 
 day time at midnight and the vital or spirit 
 power at sunrise, consequently the hours af- 
 ter midnight are the feeblest of all and these 
 are hours when disease invades and reveals 
 a morning patient. The majority of the at- 
 tacks of cholera occur after midnight and 
 this is the time when malaria takes effect on 
 those who sleep too near the ground or in 
 unwholesome apartments and when flimsily 
 built houses expose the sleeper to a chill be- 
 fore he rises. The ventilation fad admits the 
 night air even when malarious, which is never 
 needed in a spacious apartment. 
 
 Prenatal Periodicity. 
 
 The relation of parents and offspring runs 
 through several septimal periods. 
 
 Counting backwards before our birth we 
 find seven years of Saturday in which procre- 
 ation by a parent is impossible. 
 
 Then seven years of Friday period presents 
 7 to 14 years of age in which procreation 
 should not be allowed though quite possible 
 in warm climates. A Friday relation is un- 
 fortunate and does not give the energy nec- 
 essary to proper development. The feebleness 
 of the Hindoo race is probably due to their 
 very early marriages. 
 
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From 14 to 21 in the parent is a Thursday- 
 relation to us. Such parents are better than 
 the Friday class but have not the strength 
 maturity and wisdom for the parental of- 
 fice. But the offspring of very early marri- 
 ages are in a very friendly Monday or Tues- 
 day relation to parents and disposed to be 
 amiable. 
 
 But older parents produce more energetic 
 children and are more competent to take care 
 of them. 
 
 The Wednesday period, 21 to 28, is one of 
 equilibrium in the moral and physical energies 
 — so is the Monday period, 35 to 42. But 
 these periods give more energy than geniality 
 in the offspring. They are harder to govern 
 but receive the affectionate care of mature 
 and considerate parents. Older men are kind 
 and considerate to young children and young 
 wives, but the wives sometimes neglect them 
 and the children may be self w T illed, hence the 
 first born or oldest children are the favorites 
 and the law of primogeniture gives them an 
 advantage in inheritance. 
 
 The common experience of mankind cor- 
 responds with these principles. 
 
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Chap. 9-YEAR AND DAY COMPARED. 
 
 The day hours, the week days and the seven yearly di- 
 visions compared — All hours of the day explained — 
 Importance of morning rest — Calculations applied 
 to the year and my own experience. 
 
 If we take the progress of a year cr the 
 progress of a day, in the external or sun life, 
 under the septimal division, the results corres- 
 pond to universal experience. 
 
 Thus let the day begin on an average at 6 
 A. m. and we will find its progress corres- 
 ponds to our law, as follows, the periods be- 
 ing 3 hours and 26 minutes. 
 
 Sunday— 6 to 9:26. 
 
 Monday— to 12:52. 
 
 Tuesday— to 4:18. 
 
 Wednesday— to 7:44. 
 
 Thursday— 11:10. 
 
 Friday— to 2:36. 
 
 Saturday — to 6. 
 
 The first morning hours are not vigorous, 
 they are for preparation of food and dress with 
 youthful freshness. Delicate constitutions 
 are feeble in the morning hours, but acquire 
 strength after the digestion of breakfast. 
 Early rising is not beneficial to the delicate. 
 The atmosphere needs the vitalizing influence 
 of the sun, and dispersion of fogs and ma- 
 
 87 
 
laria. Prom nine to one is the period of 
 greatest efficiency, the Monday period, the 
 sun is then giving its best service. The after- 
 noon or Tuesday is not quite equal to the 
 forenoon for business, and the sun is often op- 
 pressive in warm weather. The Wednesday 
 period from four, to eight is less fa vorable and 
 6 p. m. is a pre per time to stop, the sun is 
 then withdrawing its support. Prom 8 to 
 11, the Thursday period, fatigue is the rule, 
 the sun no longer stimulates and the malaria 
 is settling, we need the protection of a roof, 
 and the refreshing influence of society and 
 amusement. This corresponds to the Thurs- 
 day autumnal period of the year and the 
 Thursday decline of life, from fifty-six to 70, 
 when we realize the need of rest from ardu- 
 ous duties. 
 
 At 11 the sun is far gone, shelter is indis- 
 pensible, the weather colder and malaria 
 more abundant — this begins the Friday per- 
 iod, when all occupation must be suspended, 
 and every protection brought around us, and 
 corresponds to the winter, which is the Fri- 
 day period of the year and to the cool old 
 age from 70 to 84, the Friday period of life, 
 when the utmost care and abundant rest be- 
 come necessary. 
 
 The midnight hours are unfriendly; the prof- 
 ligate, the thief, the burglar and assassin are 
 abroad and good people are at home. The 
 
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night service of physicians and nurses is 
 doubly taxing to the constitution and it is 
 recorded that the officer in Spain who sought 
 to escape the heat of the day by marching his 
 men at night increased their mortality. 
 
 In our Friday years the spirit may be 
 strong but the body is not, as I am now real- 
 izing. 
 
 So in the Friday hours of night, which must 
 be devoted to rest, the spirit may be eman- 
 cipated in visions and our guardian angels 
 may be near. 
 
 But the succeeding period is more hopeful, 
 the Saturday period of ni^ht, from 3 to 6, is 
 a more spiritual period. It corresponds to 
 the ante-natal period when a new life is ma- 
 turing and the protective love of a mother 
 is developing it. So in the early hours a new 
 life is coming in the body for it has grown 
 and is growing, the blood has become puri- 
 fied and the stock of oxygen assimilated, the 
 excreta are ready for removal and the brain 
 has recovered from fatigue. Now is the time 
 when we receive the influx from guardian an- 
 gels and the universal spiritual element of na- 
 ture, and visions or presentiments revealing 
 the truth are often granted. If we are of a 
 spiritual temperament our invisible Iriends 
 often make their presence sensible by sounds 
 or perhaps respond to our thoughts; thus the 
 new life approaches that is born at sunrise. 
 
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The ante-natal period before sunrise for 
 three hours ought to be sacred to the restor- 
 ation of life, a great deal of nervous exhaus- 
 tion and great loss of brain power are pro- 
 duced by rising at dawn or before day break, 
 as it is practiced by many farmers and their 
 wives, it is in this way as much as by long 
 hours and night work that constitutions are 
 exhausted and premature age brought on, 
 with feebleness of brain. This lesson is en- 
 forced by the vital view that sunrise is the 
 weakest period of the 24 hours in natural vi- 
 tality. 
 
 The common wsense and experience of man- 
 kind have taught all judicious people to give 
 rest to the Thursday hours of the day and to 
 theThursda} 7 years of life, and to protect not 
 only the Friday hours of night but the Fri- 
 day season of the 3 7 car, the pitiless winter 
 when the sun is withdrawn, and the benefi- 
 cence of nature suspended. 
 
 When the renovating power of nature is 
 suspended in the winter period of human life 
 we approach the end of the year or the end of 
 life. 
 
 There is then a brief interval, the ending 
 before a beginning, when in Saturday the 
 foundation is laid of a new life, a new career. 
 
 This may come at the end of the first cycle, 
 between 42 and 49, and if it comes then as it 
 does to many, the new life of the second cy- 
 
 90 
 
cle is a vast improvement on the first, for tii6 
 second ought to be better than the first as 
 Monday is better than Sunday, it is the be- 
 ginning of a higher life free from the toils and 
 suffering of earth. 
 
 But if the normal strength of the human 
 constitution exists and is well managed, the 
 new life comes after the Friday period is 
 ended, between 84 and 98, when we go rich 
 in experience to our higher home. 
 
 These things have been realized in my own 
 life, but I have not from time to time pres- 
 erved the memoranda. 
 
 It was in the Monday period of my entire life 
 that I mastered the problems of the brain 
 and the sciences of psychometry and sarcog- 
 nomy were completed by 1842, my 28th year. 
 
 In my Tuesday period, from 1842 to 1856,1 
 had my medical career and stood at the head of 
 a flourishing medical college at Cincinnati, 
 but the discord in the Friday of the first cycle 
 came in at its close when I retired. 
 
 My Wednesday, from 1856 to 1870, was 
 much less satisfactory, being one of irregular 
 success in uncongenial surroundings, with 
 financial success and financial misfortune, 
 but offering an opportunity for political dis- 
 tiction, which I did not accept as it was for- 
 eign to my aims, though I might have reached 
 a very honorable position. The opportunity 
 came at the beginning of my second cycle 
 
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and might have been a distinguished period 
 if I had pursued it with energy. 
 
 My Thursday period, fronTl870 to 1884, 
 had no satisfactory success, financial misfor- 
 tunes came in, collegiate schemes had to be 
 abandoned, my publications had but moder- 
 erate success. 
 
 In my Friday period, from 1884 to 1898, my 
 finances dwindled down toward poverty, my 
 gifted wife passed away, and my constitution 
 gave way to vital and atmospheric malaria, 
 and from spinal exhaustion as the conse- 
 quence of a fall, in an evil year. I was for 
 some years not capable of more than half my 
 proper labor. Yet with the aid of science I 
 resisted all and kept up my mental vigor to 
 a surprising extent, writing and speaking 
 with such vigor that it was called robust vi- 
 tality. Whether I can resist the periodic ten- 
 dency to decline, many months is an urgent 
 question now. 
 
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Chap. 10— PRRIODICITY OP DAYS, 
 
 MONTHS AND YEARS. 
 Concords and discords— Laws of Mar- 
 riage. 
 
 The Genesis fable — Rest on Friday — Septimal law ap- 
 plied to our work days — Do we all observe Friday — 
 When is our Friday — a discovery — How to find our 
 week days and Fridays — Table to show every one 
 his birthday — Coinciding years, months and days- 
 How to mateh in your associates — who will har- 
 monize "with you and who wiJl find fault — Our mys- 
 terious Friday antipathies — How they make mis- 
 chief—How they are overcome — The laws applied to 
 marriage — Relations of junior and senior — Relations 
 of husbands and wives discussed — a complex ques- 
 tion requiring study — Old men and young wives — 
 Mature women and young men — A sure guide in the 
 study of character— Advices for husbands. 
 
 The human brain explained. A brief synopsis OF THE 
 true science of the brain, showing what to seek 
 and what to avoid, and a wonderful secret for pos- 
 terity. 
 
 According to the septimal law every seven 
 day period produces a degree of exhaustion 
 by labor or exertion wich makes rest neces- 
 sary. 
 
 The old fable of Genesis, which the church 
 in the early centuries regarded as an allegory 
 or fable but becoming m >re superstitious, 
 accepted as history, represented God as being 
 so fatigued on Friday as to rest on Satur- 
 day, which was therefore made a Sabbath. 
 
 93 
 
But it would be more reasonable to rest Ori 
 Friday, the day of fatigue on which we are 
 less qualified to gain success in anything. I 
 therefore advise all to take rest for soul and 
 body and avoid all risks and heavy respons- 
 ibilities or new enterprises or exposures on 
 their Friday days, Friday months and Friday 
 years; but from want of energetic fore- 
 thought, expecting to pass through my 
 double Friday from seventy to eighty-four, 
 I have alloud my great responsibilities in 
 recording my scientific discoveries to accum- 
 ulate on this period, and now in its most 
 critical portion which is the eighty-second 
 year, I am suffering from great prostation 
 and am unfitted for completing my work but 
 possibly able, after passing the eighty-second 
 year to have a slight improvement in the 
 eighty-third year which begins my Saturday. 
 
 In applying the septimal laws to the days 
 of the week, we would of course advise any 
 one to be careful on Friday, a principle so of- 
 ten verified as to seem true, but at length I 
 have found a very intelligent and observant 
 lad} r who maintained that Friday w r as her 
 best day for action and Tuesday her best day 
 for rest; this implied that her native week 
 days did not correspond to the calendar days, 
 that her Sunday and Friday were not the 
 Sunday and Friday of the Calendar. 
 
 If Friday was her best day, her week may 
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have begun on Wednesday or Thursday; 
 these being her first day or Sunday would 
 make Friday a good day Monday. If born 
 on Thursday, Friday would be her Monday, 
 and Tuesday her Friday. If bs-rn on Wed- 
 nesday, Friday would be her Tuesday and 
 Tuesday her Saturday. As she said Tuesday 
 was her day for rest, unfit for any active 
 business, I was sure she was born on Thurs- 
 day, which would make Tuesday her Friday, 
 Thursday being her Sunday. It is well for 
 all persons to use the same vigilance as this 
 intelligent lady, to find their lucky and un- 
 lucky days, which were forced upon her 
 attention so often as to compel her to rec- 
 ognize them. Looking farther into her case 
 I am convinced that I made a discovery and 
 that she was actually born on Thursday 
 though she had been told her birthday was 
 Saturday. This discovery leads to the neces- 
 sity in each case of ascertaining the week 
 day which can be done from the following 
 table. To enable one to select good and bad 
 days from the day of his birth, I present the 
 calculation of the relations of days. He who 
 is born on Sunday will have his evil day for 
 rest on Friday. 
 
 Monday brings its Friday on Saturday. 
 
 Tuesday on Sunday. 
 
 Wednesday on Monday. 
 
 Thursday on Tuesday. 
 
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Friday on Wednesday. 
 
 Saturday on Thursday. 
 
 Sunday on Friday. 
 
 This seems to be my experience, hence I 
 infer I was born on Sunday and think I was 
 once told so by a psychie. 
 
 The same principle applies in reference to 
 months and years. We do not place every- 
 one as born in January, and locate his 
 Friday months from October 1st to Novem- 
 ber 19th, but find his actual birth and count 
 his year from his birth date to the same day 
 next year; and as to his years we count from 
 the year of his birth. 
 
 If the reader would learn on what day of 
 the week he w T as born, he can escertain by 
 referring to the table of years and days. 
 
 Coincidence and Harmony. 
 
 All who are born in the same year, not too 
 far apart, have similar years of good and bad 
 luck, and therefore a certain similarity and 
 adaptability, but if they unite in business in 
 their evil years they intensify their mis- 
 fortunes, as both are unfortunate. If you 
 select for an associate one whose good Mon- 
 day or Tuesday period corresponds to your 
 Friday, his good luck may save you if you 
 let him take the lead, when you should rest; 
 but if you should bring some man in his un- 
 lucky year to manage in your good year, he 
 
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may spoil your success ; so you must not let 
 him lead then and lead you into his bad luck. 
 
 There is the harmony of similarity in those 
 born in the same year, the same month and 
 the same day. 
 
 But when days, months and years differ, 
 they may produce beneficent harmony or 
 intolerable discord — a problem requiring 
 much study fcr each individual, in which I 
 may guide him by showing the law. 
 
 Your young friend who is born seven to 
 fourteen years or even seventeen years later 
 than yourself is in a beneficent relation to 
 you and predisposed to be friendly and may 
 do you good. It is well for you to try him 
 and see how far the relation is desirable if he 
 is a proper person. 
 
 Of course the periodic law does not change 
 his character though it effects his relation to 
 you. He may be poor, ignorant, diseased, 
 miseducated, or otherwise unfortunate, but 
 he will be better for you than another of the 
 same sort born in your Friday years and 
 months. 
 
 When you enter into relations with a man 
 or woman born in your Friday year, all may 
 seem right, for others, but not be right for 
 you. He is not born to be a blessing for you. 
 He is probably disposed to find fault, to cens- 
 ure and condemn your action and character, 
 or he may prove an adverse element by being 
 
 97 
 
engaged in something unpropitious for you, 
 or in sympathizing with something that is 
 discordant for you. 
 
 I know, for example, that I have found my- 
 self in a Friday relation with gentlemen of 
 ability and merit, to whom I felt an intense 
 repugnance, though they were in many 
 respects superior men, and entertained for me 
 a considerable degree of esteem, which I could 
 not fully reciprocate though I respected them 
 highly. There was a real antagonism in our 
 natures, expressed by the old verse : 
 
 " I do not like thee Dr. Fell, 
 
 " The reason why 1 cannot tell, 
 
 " But this I know and know full well — 
 
 " I do not like thee Dr. Fell.-' 
 
 I have been acqmnted with three ladies, 
 they were superior women and had a high 
 regard for me, as I had for them. One of 
 them whose nature and purposes were for- 
 eign and adverse to my own had a monthly 
 date harmonious to my own, and hence was 
 personally very congenial, though our life 
 aims were entirely discordant. The other 
 two had life aims entirely harmonious with 
 mine, making the basis of a strong attach- 
 ment on account of their virtues. But their 
 month dates were so discordant with mine, 
 that it required much care on my part to 
 avoid exciting the little unpleasantness and 
 annoyance which comes from discordant 
 
 98 
 
months. My monthly relation to them being 
 as favorable as their relation was discordant, 
 I was able with my harmonious relation to 
 overcome their little irritability. 
 
 In such relations if the discordant party is 
 the stronger, a rupture, dissatisfaction, or 
 unhappiness will result, overpowering the 
 friendly relation; but if the friendly relation 
 is stronger it will overpower the discord. 
 A strong exalted character, following the 
 example of Jesus Christ will overpower all 
 discords, and a hostile Friday nature if very 
 strong will crush the pleasant sentiments in 
 those who would naturally be friendly. 
 
 Suppose we apply this to marriage. A man 
 who is thoroughly and entirely good in his 
 nature will be beneficient to all who approach 
 him, and a man thoroughly selfish, jealous, 
 irritable and revengeful will be an unfortu- 
 nate acquaintance for anybody. Periodicity 
 does not annihilate characters but modifies 
 relations. 
 
 I could not advice a lady to marry a man 
 in a discordant relation unless he were so 
 thoroughly good that even his discords 
 would not be formidable though they would 
 be distinctly perceptible. 
 
 The senior party generally has the advan- 
 tage in matrimony. He is more disposed to 
 dictate, to find fault or be dissatisfied though 
 he may be polite enough to conceal it. The 
 
 99 
 
junior is disposed to look on the other favor- 
 ably, to be pleased at first sight and to be 
 generally partial. 
 
 Men uniformly aim to be the senior party, 
 and women submit to that arrangement, 
 which increases their natural amiability to 
 husbands, to whom they are inclined to look 
 up, while men are not disposed to look up 
 to their wives, This is seen in the forged 
 Epistles of St. Paul manufactured by Cath- 
 olic priests, in which women are required to 
 look up to their husbands as children to 
 parents or even as they would look up to 
 Christ. St. Paul did write several epistles full 
 of good vsense and enthusiastic religion, but 
 nothing derogatory to women. 
 
 If your husband is of your own age that is 
 a good relation. If he is six or even twelve 
 months older it is not objectionable. But if 
 he is from twelve to twenty-four months 
 older that brings a little discord. You will 
 be partial to him inclined to like his manners 
 and if he is a good man that will satisfy him, 
 but his ways and manners differ from yours, 
 and he will look on you with a critical eye in 
 the small matters of personal intercourse. 
 If he is a good man this may not show itself 
 distinctly but only negatively. If he is not 
 good it will show itself unpleasantly and it 
 will require care to please him. 
 
 If he is three, four, five, six or seven years 
 100 
 
older ttat will not make a discord, but five* 
 six or seven is better than three or four. But 
 in all these unfavorable dates just mentioned 
 your amiability to him increases as his de- 
 clines, so that if you are both good there is 
 no trouble. 
 
 But if he is between eight and nine years 
 older look out — you will then be the concord 
 and he the discord and if he is of a cold 
 selfish or jealous nature his relation will bring 
 his discord to the surface and as a strong pos- 
 itive character he will be somewhat unsatis- 
 factory or oppressive. He must be an uncom- 
 monly good man if the 8 to 9 year relation 
 does not spoil his charm. 
 
 Beyond the ninth year, the older your hus- 
 band is the better for you, if you love him. 
 But from the eighth to the 14th year, he is 
 not well born for you and you should be 
 careful not to give him your affection till you 
 have very thoroughly investigated and tested 
 him, for he is in a Friday relation. But I do 
 not deny that an entirely good man will be 
 good even in a Friday relation, especially if 
 you love him warmly. 
 
 From 14 up to 42 years of seniority is a 
 good relation for a husband — the older the 
 better but when he is in the forties though he 
 loves you, you may not love him and you 
 must be cautious. It is not a good position 
 for you to be forty years younger than your 
 
 101 
 
husband, but if your fountain of love is foil 
 and flowing and he is good you maybe happy 
 with him. Yet if you are easily annoyed or 
 disgusted or irritated by a nature foreign to 
 your own do not risk a discord. 
 
 You are not apt to fall in love with a man 
 35 to 42 years older than yourself but he is 
 likely to love you at first sight and so you 
 may reciprocate his love. 
 
 On the other hand you are in danger of 
 falling in love with a man who is not really 
 in accord with you, being in a Friday rela- 
 tion, eight to nine years older, and so you 
 may win him, but I would advise you to look 
 sharp and let him do his share of the courting 
 and make his love and his good temper con- 
 spicuous before you trust him. Try his 
 patience or amiability in advance. But if you 
 wish to submit to a master and make your 
 happiness by plea? ing him you may accept 
 a Friday master. 
 
 I knew of a lady who took an interest in a 
 young man, had him educated and then mar- 
 ried him happily. Of course he was devoted 
 to his senior, and I would advise widows and 
 mature woman to pick up young husbands 
 when satisfied as to their character. I knew 
 a lady who chose a husband at least twenty 
 years younger than herself (perhaps thirty); 
 her friends were all opposed to it, but I ap- 
 proved it and it was a good match. 
 102 
 
 
Men who marry step mothers, or mothers- 
 in-law are generally good husbands, and if 
 somewhat henpecked do not mind it, for they 
 know how to respect age and experience. It 
 is a good discipline for a man to have a wife 
 he is compelled to respect, and rather a bad 
 discipline to have a timid harmless wife whom 
 he can neglect or snub or oppress with im- 
 punity. It you have not enough self-respect 
 or firmness and judgment to command the 
 sincere respect of a man, you should let him 
 alone, unless you wish to be a slave. 
 
 But in all cases make sure of the depth and 
 strength of a man's love before you surrender. 
 Observe his deportment to his mother and 
 sisters — if it is not satisfactory avoid him. 
 Fiually study him psychometrically — if the 
 impression you feel from one of his letters, 
 not knowing who it is, is not satisfactory, 
 let him alone. — The psychometric study of 
 character, and how to train yourself in studj r - 
 ing one you have not seen, is shown in my 
 Manual, of Psychometry, which gives every 
 woman a safeguard against mistakes in mar- 
 riage, if she will use it. 
 
 When I advise a gentleman as to marriage 
 I of course advice him to select one younger 
 than himself or of his own age. If she is eight 
 or nine years younger, it is a charming rela- 
 tion if your natures are congenial. It is 
 probable she will be so agreeable and yielding 
 
 103 
 
as to spoil you or tempt you to be authorita- 
 tive. Any where from one to eighteen years 
 younger than yourself will be agreeable. 
 
 But beyond eighteen years her affections 
 will be less intense — there will be less unity, 
 and if thirty-five to forty years younger I 
 would not recommend her; you will not be 
 adapted to her nature. 
 
 If you are a modest and reasonable man 
 with a high regard for women, you may do 
 well in marrying a woman four to seven 
 years older. But I would not recommend 
 one two or three years older, and I would 
 object decidedly to one nine years older: that 
 is a discordant relation, unless you are deeply 
 in love with her. Anywhere between eight 
 and fifteen years of seniority is quite objec- 
 tionable. She will be independent and differ- 
 ent from you in her plans and wishes. It is 
 even better beyond fifteen. Even thirty years 
 of seniority will be beneficent if you love. A 
 mature woman enjoys the life and freshness 
 of a young man — and is disposed to give a 
 maternal love, and if she is a well preserved 
 woman you will not be ashamed of the con- 
 trast of age. — She will be very faithful in sick- 
 ness and watchful over your welfare. 
 
 But the question of months is also im- 
 portant. For that regulates the harmonies 
 of manner and person. You should avoid a 
 Friday relation in months, unless you are 
 104 
 
good enough to overcome it. A lady born 
 over nine months later in the year than your- 
 self is not rightly adapted to you. Thirty- 
 seven weeks, 269 days, is the beginning of 
 the unfavorable period, and 45 weeks or 313 
 days is its end. The very worst relation is 
 304 days. You may arrive at it by counting 
 backward. Shun any birthday that is from 
 52 to 104 days earlier than your own — especi- 
 ally one 60 days earlier. 
 
 You may overcome such a discord by amia- 
 bility and love, but unless well furnished in 
 love, I would not advise you to try it. Thor- 
 oughly good people can harmonize in spite 
 of discordant relations in manners, owing to 
 months or even discordant years, but others 
 should not attempt it. A lady whose head is 
 sufficiently elevated and symmetrically full on 
 the upper surface will make any man happy 
 and elevate his nature by her own elevation. 
 If he is not a brute, she will greatly im- 
 prove him. 
 
 But if you are a really good man—a good 
 lover you need not depend entirely on periodic 
 harmonies, for you can overcome them. Of 
 course you will be happier with a harmony 
 of periods but virtue triumphs over all such 
 difficulties. And if you select a healthy com- 
 panion with the proper head, all will prob- 
 ably be well. Hence I give you the locations 
 of the good qualities in a head that contri- 
 105 
 
butes to human happiness. The brain is not 
 indicated by bumps as the ignorant suppose, 
 but by the form of the head. 
 
 The human brain has its heavenly and its 
 earthly region. One side looks up to God — 
 the other looks down to this world of dead 
 matter. — As we obey one or the other we go 
 up or down — up toward God reaching heaven, 
 down toward matter and force — toward 
 passion and sensuality , selfishness and 
 wickedness, reaching hell — the hell of a grovel- 
 ing beastly criminal nature, ready to destroy 
 happiness or lives and then turn the pistol 
 on his own brains and land in the hell of 
 remorse in the spirit world. 
 
 The lower brain is for the body — the upper 
 brain for the soul. They in whom the upper 
 brain rules absolutely — who never yield to 
 passion or selfishness or animalism, are of a 
 nature a kin to heaven, and are a blessing all 
 around them; as the other class are a curse. 
 Jesus Christ was the heavenly model of the 
 higher class, and the rich men of today whom 
 he excluded from heaven are often of the lower 
 class, and they create by oppression a sim- 
 ilar but worse lower class — the men whom 
 injustice oppression and suffering have made 
 miserable and desperate. 
 
 The following synopsis of brain science 
 has been demonstrated by experiment for 
 fifty years, and is as positive as anything \n 
 
 106 
 
anatomy or physiology — being based on the 
 anatomy of the brain. Without attempting 
 to give the whole science I present all those 
 qualities important in conjugal union. 
 
 If the head is divided by a horizontal line 
 from the middle of the forehead backward, 
 all above that line gives noble and amiable 
 qualities — all below it gives animal force, 
 temper and selfishness. If divided by a verti- 
 cal line from the cavity of the ear upward,— 
 all behind that line gives the strength and 
 activity which make success. — The upper back 
 head gives moral energy, the lower back head 
 animal energy. 
 
 The frontal half of the head gives the intel- 
 lectual faculties and sensibilities, with the 
 amiable and yielding moral qualities. 
 
 The face gives at INT. intuitive and quick 
 perception of everything, including human 
 character. — The upper part of the face gives 
 expression to all the amiable pleasing quali- 
 ties. It is marked SOC. — social qualities. 
 The lower part of the face, ANT. indicates 
 antagonism, self-will and resentment. MEL. 
 indicates melancholy or disposition to look 
 on the unfavorable side of things in opposi- 
 tion to CHE. Cheerfulness, which makes a 
 gay happy nature. Physical warmth is indi- 
 cated by prominence of the chin. RESP. 
 Respiration, indicates activity of the lungs, 
 the lower part gives deep respiration and a 
 107 
 
egwi 
 
 i» Qogl far, Jose.. 
 
 Acq.aisitiveness 
 
 Adh.esiveness 
 
 Ali.mentiveness 
 
 Am.ativeness 
 
 Ant.agonism 
 
 App.robativeness 
 
 Arr.ogance 
 
 B.E.N. Business 
 
 Energy 
 Ben.evolence 
 Cautiousness 
 
 Che.erfulness 
 Com.bativeness 
 Comb.ination 
 Conscientious- 
 ness 
 Dest.ructiveness 
 Dig.nity 
 
 Ene.rgy 
 Fir.mness 
 
 Har.mony 
 
 Ideality. 
 
 Imagination 
 
 Ind.olence 
 
 Int.uition 
 
 Irr.itability 
 
 Love 
 
 Mel.ancholy 
 
 Mod.esty 
 
 Obs.ervation 
 
 Ora.tory 
 
 Pat.ience 
 
 Pow.er Love of 
 
 Resp.iration 
 
 Ras.hness 
 Rep.ose 
 Rev.erence 
 Riv.alry 
 Sen.sibility 
 Social qualities 
 S. Con. Self con- 
 fidence 
 Understanding 
 Vir.ility 
 V.ital force 
 
strong voice. AM. signifies Amativeness, 
 which is reinforced at VIR. Virility. ALL 
 signifies Alimentiveness or interest in eating 
 and if it is full, adjacent to the ear, a desire for 
 stimulants or drink. If flat or withered at 
 that spot it indicates temperance and inca- 
 pacity for stimulants. 
 
 In the temples, SEN. indicates sensibility 
 and delicacy. It makes the person sensitive 
 not only to language and manners, but to 
 weather, to pain and to everything that 
 affects comfort. Those in whom this is 
 detective, the temples being hollow, do not 
 take care of themselves but are liable to over- 
 work and exposure. When interested they 
 forget the body. MOD. is the region of mod- 
 esty and courteous deference to others. In 
 excess it makes bashfulness. IDE. Ideality is 
 the source of literary taste and general refine- 
 ment and love of beauty. 
 
 IMA. is the seat of Imagination and love 
 of the spiritual and marvelous. If large, with 
 broad temples it produces mediumship. 
 
 HAR. is the seat of social harmony and an 
 obliging, polite disposition opposed to com- 
 bativeness — COM. 
 
 Pleasantry gives humorous and pleasing 
 ideas— just above Und. (accidentally omitted 
 in the engraving.) 
 
 Tranquillity, opposed to Restlessness, is 
 indicated between Cautiousness and Love. 
 109 
 
The intellect is in the forehead, but needs 
 to be supported by the energies of the upper 
 backhead, Self Confidence and Firmness. 
 
 UND. is the region of general understand- 
 ing and reasoning. OBS. of general observa- 
 tion and accuracy. A broad forehead gives 
 power in planning and scheming above, and 
 Invention below — COMB. Language and 
 music are just behind the eye and eyebrow. 
 
 BEN. Benevolence is opposed to selfish 
 Acquisitiveness in the back head. The pos- 
 terior part of it serves a friend heartily, the 
 anterior part gives away freely. The central 
 part of the upper surface of the head, LOVE 
 makes a thoroughly lovely character. Who- 
 ever has that will be lovely as husband or 
 wife, and whoever is deficient in that will not 
 give a great deal of happiness in marriage 
 but maybe faithful to duties, if Conscientious- 
 ness (CON.) is large, whoever has large Love 
 and Conscientiousness will make a happy 
 home. The whole central space is marked 
 LOVE. It includes Hope and Religion which 
 are nearly the same — one means Hopeful love 
 and the other Reverential love. 
 
 Serenity and mildness of temper is due to 
 Patience— PAT. which is opposed to Irrita- 
 bility IRR. The latter is the chief source of 
 petty quarrels and fretfulness or anger and 
 alienation of feeling — a very dangerous ele- 
 
 110 
 
ment in marriage. Patience and Firmness 
 should be higher on the outline of the head. 
 
 DEST. Destructiveness, running from Irrita- 
 bility around and below the ear, seldom 
 does much harm in a woman, though it gives 
 her a full supply of temper and force, but in 
 men it runs to anger, violence and lawless 
 profligacy if not controlled by the Love 
 region. 
 
 COM. Combativeness, makes one face op- 
 position contend for his rights and become 
 quarrelsome and stubborn, unless controlled 
 b}^ Harmony. In women it makes them good 
 scolds, and firm in maintaining: their rights. 
 
 ADH. Adhesiveness (located a trifle too 
 low) gives a fondness for society and attrac- 
 tive manners, without which we get tired of 
 company. 
 
 ACQ. Acquisitiveness makes a selfish grasp- 
 ing nature and when that region is large it 
 brings in the deceit and jealousy of Secretive- 
 ness, which is just a little below it, and runs 
 into Rivalry, RIV. — a spirit of competition 
 to surpass others, with an inclination to 
 gambling. Jealousy and Acquisitiveness spoil 
 many men for husbands. They are exacting, 
 jealous and stingy. 
 
 Cautiousness CAUT. is a cool steady qual- 
 ity necessary to success opposed to the Rash- 
 ness and Carelessness indicated on the neck 
 RAS. 
 
 Ill 
 
Arrogance ARR, is inclined to be rude and 
 overbearing, unless checked by Modesty. 
 Love of Power POW. gives great force and 
 ambition. Business Energy B.E.N, is intenseh 7 
 practical— fit for any business and with self- 
 reliance will push on to success. 
 
 Approbativeness APP. (w r hich should be 
 located a little higher) gives pleasing winning 
 manners and promotes social harmon}\ — It 
 is stronger in women than men and so is 
 Adhesiveness. 
 
 Oratory ORA. is active and impressive, 
 showing off our ideas and illustrating them 
 handsomely. 
 
 DIG. Dignity or self-respect is not the 
 source of conceit but maintains dignity and 
 seeks to be honorable. 
 
 Firmness FIR. is the most powerful of all 
 the faculties, carries us through what we 
 undertake, and is not afraid of danger. 
 
 Energy, (ENE.) gives incessant industry 
 and efficiency, and if not balanced by Indo- 
 lence (IND.) is liabk to overwork. Cheerful- 
 ness (CHE.) is important in both sexes to 
 hold up under misfortune and makes their 
 company always pleasant. But when Cheer- 
 fnlness is low, the head sloping down from 
 Firmness like a steep roof, and Melancholy 
 MEL. making wide jaws, life is very gloomy, 
 and such people are oppressive company. 
 
 Finally Conscientiousness CON. does every- 
 
 112 
 
thing honestly and industriously, pays debts, 
 is grateful for favors and leads a godly life. 
 
 And now, dear reader, if you have secured a 
 a wife according to these rules, you have a 
 treasure and a treasury that you must fill. 
 Love her with all your might and she will 
 give you compound interest on your whole 
 investment. Never say a word that could 
 possibly hurt her feelings; keep to yourself all 
 such thoughts. Don't find fault, for that 
 only injures your investment. There are 
 ways to overcome all faults without scolding 
 or grumbling, which only do harm ; and 
 when she is bearing children be doubly at- 
 tentive and w r atchful if you would not be dis- 
 appointed in your children. Court her still 
 as you did to win her. 
 
 I can give you a wonderful secret that will 
 make good children if j^our are kind to their 
 mother. Place the top of your head in which 
 all your good qualities lie against the front 
 of her womb. It will quiet the fetus, make a 
 lovely child and a successful deliver}' in child- 
 birth. This secret is worth millions to pos 
 terity and I must not conceal it — a salvation 
 to women and children if repeated. Kneel be- 
 fore your wife as she sits, while giving this 
 blessing. If you are not willing to do this— 
 you are not fit to have a wife. 
 
 After due attention to periodicity aad to 
 the development of the brain, there is another 
 
 113 j& 
 
important matter too often overlooked — the 
 law of heredity. What is in the parents is 
 sure to appear in the offspring though it may 
 be difficult to tell which parent will have the 
 greatest influence. There was a striking il- 
 lustration in France which is authentic, in 
 the family ot a farmer named Etampes. The 
 man hanged himself without apparent cause, 
 leaving seven sons and five daughters — ten of 
 the eleven hanged themselves, after marrying 
 and begetting children, and all of these chil- 
 dren have hanged themselves. But there was 
 one survivor, a son sixty-eight years old, 
 when the case was reported by Prof. Brouar- 
 del. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. 
 
 All qualities and character are liable to this 
 transmission and most likely to reappear at 
 the same age. But prenatal impressions come 
 in to produce strange results sometimes. 
 
 In reference to a man I would study his 
 treatment of his mother and his sisters. If 
 faulty in that he is not a desirable husband. 
 The girl who has neglected or disregarded a 
 mother, and whom her companions do not 
 love has not the best qualifications for a 
 wife. These things may be beyond the reach 
 ot the enquirer but they are not beyond the 
 reach of Psychometry. The students of the 
 Manual of Ps3 r chometry have a sure protec- 
 tion. 
 
 There are many other valuable truths which 
 114 
 
are still secrets, undiscovered in science which 
 I would like to give the world if it were suffi- 
 ciently civilized to appreciate a true teacher 
 and receive knowledge which is foreign to its 
 habits and prejudices. But the more import- 
 ant a truth may be the more dangerous it is 
 to give it out prematurely, as was realized by 
 Socrates, Jesus Christ, Hypatia, Joan of Arc, 
 Bruno and Servetus. But I may speak to fu- 
 ture ages. "Primitive Christianity " is as 
 much as the most enlightened can receive at 
 present. 
 
 Chap. 11-INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE. 
 
 Decisive experience of a lady, a gentlcmau and 
 
 Napoleon Bonapartk. 
 
 (With a final lesson.) 
 
 The reader cannot realize the truth of peri- 
 odicitv as I do after observing hundreds of 
 verifications which I have left unrecorded. 
 At present I can only give him a very recent 
 sample which I recollect. 
 
 It is the case of E., a lady of superior intel- 
 ligence, who saw the great importance of pe- 
 riodicity as soon as I applied it to her life ex- 
 perience. 
 
 She was born of very mature parents— one 
 43, the other 37 years, older than herself, con- 
 sequently endowed with a very strong vital- 
 ity, as the periodic law shows. Hence she 
 
 115 
 
 
has been a woman of heroie energy, triumph- 
 ing and vsurviving under conditions which 
 would have been fatal to 999 in a thousand. 
 
 In her Monday and Tuesday period, (9 to 
 15) her school girl days, she led. No boy or 
 girl could outrun her. In her studies she w r as 
 at the head of her classes. Her mind was 
 quick and intuitive; her spirit utterly fear- 
 less. She has been shot at without a tremor 
 — a stranger to fear — has faced hostile In- 
 dians and defied their attacks, and has al- 
 ways felt a consciousness of latent powers 
 which justified a high ambition. She desired 
 to enter a professional career, in which she 
 would have been distinguished. But her stars 
 were not propitious, for the narrow preju- 
 dices of family and friends terribly held her 
 back and her unselfish nature yielded to 
 friends, as thousands of noble women have 
 under the rules falsely ascribed to St. Paul, 
 been held down in obscurity. With a less am- 
 iable nature she would have won distinction. 
 
 This might have been overcome in time 
 when thrown upon her own resources, but 
 she inherited a disease of the nervous system 
 which the clumsy system of medicine eould 
 never eradicate, and made her sensitive to all 
 causes of disease, so that her life has been a 
 struggle with physical suffering and calamity 
 through which her vital force and energy sus- 
 tain her wonderfully. 
 
 116 
 
In the first seven years of her life her ill 
 health was continuous, but more marked in 
 sixth year. 
 
 From 7 to 14 (Monday period) she was re- 
 markably vigorous and active, excelling all 
 her schoolmates, but had a sick spell in her 
 13th or Friday year. 
 
 An attack of measles occured in her unlucky 
 13th year (1855) and in hei 20th or Friday 
 year she had a sharp attack of pneumonia 
 and bronchitis brought on by her benevolence 
 in nursing a sister and the exposure of travel. 
 But she was very vigorous and bright be- 
 tween 14 and 21, the Tuesday period. 
 
 From 21 to 28, the Wednesday period of 
 strong action, she began favorably in the 
 Monday year by a marriage which proved a 
 happy and satisfactory union, blessed with a 
 good son. But in the sixth or Friday year, 
 at 27, came the death of her beloved hus- 
 band with fraud on his estate, and the strug- 
 gle of self-maintenance in which her energy 
 soon won success in the 29th, 30th and 31st 
 years. This was the Thursday period, 28 to \ 
 
 35, and the last years were bound to be un- 
 favorable, from 32 to 35. Financial loss 
 came on severely in the 32d year, 1876, the 
 effect of which continued on through the 
 Thursday and the Friday period (1877-1884). 
 
 At the same time, in her Thursday period, 
 1876, (the Friday year) brought on a sever? 
 
 117 
 
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attack of pneumonia, in her Friday month, 
 July. The evils developed in the Thursday 
 period made the whole Friday period ex- 
 tremely unfortunate. In 1881-2-3-4 then in 
 39th, 40th and 41st years, there were contin- 
 ued misfortunes culminating in the 41st year. 
 
 An attack of inflammatory rheumatism 
 which came on in her Friday month, July 
 1882, made her helpless for six months, un- 
 able to move lor four months, and she thinks 
 she has never completely recovered from its 
 effects. Her friends had no expectation of 
 her recovery — in her central Friday } r ear. 
 
 In 1883 and '84 she was a complete wreck 
 from this attack and domestic trouble, the 
 severest calamity of her life coming on in her 
 Friday year and Friday month, the effects 
 lasting through the first year of the Saturday 
 period, in a pulmonary affection supposed to 
 be running into consumption, but ending in 
 Monday year of the Saturday period — chang- 
 into a local tumor which her constitution 
 overcame in 1887 to '88. 
 
 Her second son was born in November, a 
 month congenial to her own and was of a 
 very congenial nature, and her first son, born 
 in March, which was her vigorous period of 
 vitality, was a strong, active character, as 
 well as congenial, according to his date. 
 
 In her Saturday period, 42d to 49th year, 
 she had no serious trouble, but gradual itru 
 
 118 
 
provement. In the fall and winter of 1889 
 and '90, in favorable months she made two 
 public addresses which gained her her reputa- 
 tion as a speaker, but on the other hand in 
 her unfavorable 34th year she made a very 
 impressive public address July 4th, 1876, 
 which she would not have done if she had 
 known anything of periodicity, and in conse- 
 quence fell into typhoid pneumonia in ten days 
 afterward, from which she did not recover 
 until the ensuing fall — though not a com- 
 plete recovery then. 
 
 She remembered generally that all her ser- 
 ious attacks came on in the Friday time — 
 June or July, and her recovering in the fall 
 and winter, which are her favorable months. 
 She was generally well in the winter. Being 
 born in October, she does not suffer from au- 
 tumnal malarial fevers, to which my birth 
 date makes me liable. I have suffered much 
 from autumnal malaria in late years and in 
 my first experience of malaria in intermittent 
 fever in my sixth year I became delirious. 
 
 Autumnal malaria comes in an unfavorable 
 time for those born in midwinter, and the 
 spring snows and thaws are unfavorable to 
 those born at the end of winter. If born in 
 March it will be well for you to seek a cli- 
 mate where the snows will not disturb you. 
 
 From 1884 to 1891, having passed through 
 her Friday period, she had no serious trouble, 
 
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but gradual improvement, and increase of 
 reputation, but in 1890, the sixth year of the 
 Saturday period, she suffered much from a 
 tumor which seemed to require a very expen- 
 sive and dangerous surgical operation, but. 
 with her own intuitive skill and spiritual co- 
 operation she recovered without the sur- 
 geon's knife. 
 
 In 1891 she entered her second cycle, a time 
 for change and progress in a new direction- 
 its Sunday period lasting to Oct., '96 — and 
 with prudence might have fully recovered, 
 but misled by her heroic benevolence at a 
 time which required great care to recover, she 
 did not protect herself. She rested in her 
 50th year, beginning the second cycle prop- 
 erly; but in her 51st year she devoted about 
 six months to nursing with a zeal and devo- 
 tion which was far beyond her strength and 
 was quite exhausted vitally, requiring the 
 whole of the remaining Sunday period to re- 
 cover from her rashness. 
 
 But in the July month she married and im- 
 mediately realized nervous depression and 
 suffering which gradually diminished, but she 
 has had no happy time in July. Learning 
 something of the periodic law, she retired to 
 a summer resort camp, meeting some congen- 
 ial friends and experiencing some pleasure. 
 But her experience of law shows her that she 
 still has trouble before her, but that she may 
 
 120 
 
expect success at the end of the century, 
 1898-99, and 1900 when the advanced condi- 
 tion of the second cycle will be realized. 
 
 Her personal experience has made the peri- 
 odic law very impressive to her. In '96 she 
 was induced against her own judgment to 
 engage in an enterprise in the summer, which 
 w r as developed in July as very unfortunate. 
 
 She is very fond of children and has ob- 
 served that the sixth month as a general rule 
 brings on teething, feverishness, nervousness, 
 cough, often followed by bowel troubles. The 
 thirteenth month, beginning the second year 
 is often unfavorable with such diseases as be- 
 long to the season, though the strength of 
 the constitution generally resists. In girls 
 she has noticed a sick spell about the thir- 
 teenth vear, and that her first son had a 
 sick spell of fever near the end of his thir- 
 teenth year and again near the end of his 
 twentieth year with a financial loss of $800. 
 Again in his 27 year near its close he was dis- 
 appointed in securing a good business and 
 competence. Thus he realized the unfavor- 
 able influencee of his 13th, 20th and 27th 
 years, which he might have guarded against 
 if he had known the periodic law. 
 
 I once had an opportunity to warn a friend 
 against a periodic danger. After telling him 
 of his periodic fate up to I ;iat time the gentle- 
 man, (Prof. L.), a highly intellectual gentle- 
 
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man, was so impressed with the truth of the 
 law, that he asked my adviee in reference to 
 a coarse of travel he was about to begin. I 
 showed him that it would result in an un- 
 fortunate failure, as it was then a very evil 
 period, and he gave it up. 
 
 Aside from the law of periodicity I was sure 
 from rny knowledge of his plan that it would 
 prove disastrous, though he did not perceive 
 it. Men are liable in their evil periods to lail 
 in their judgment and engage in ill advised or 
 impractible schemes. I can see in my own 
 life serious mistakes in my unfavorable 
 years which 1 have not detailed arising 
 from practical errors. The evil year brings 
 impaired judgment. 
 
 The knowledge of periodic law would have 
 saved E. from many a severe calamity, and 
 she keenly realizes it now. 
 
 I can add to her's an equally impressive 
 case of a truly good man, Mr. A., whose 
 whole life has been a series of mistakes in his 
 Friday years. 
 
 With talent, energv and virtue, he would 
 have been an admired and beloved millionaire 
 if he had been warned by periodicity or as- 
 trology against his Friday years, and now he 
 knows it and wishes me to record his expe- 
 rience for the benefit of humanity. 
 
 Born March 4, 1815, his evil years came on 
 in 1821, 1828, 1835, 1842, 1849,1856,1863, 
 
 122 
 
1870, 1877, 1884, 1891 and 1898, and they 
 all proved unfavorable. 
 
 He recollects nothing of his sixth year, but 
 suffering from a severe boil ; nor has he much 
 recollection of his 13th year, 1828. But in 
 his 20th year, 1835, he made the mistake of 
 his life, as he now, sees it. He was pre-emi- 
 nently qualified by nature for a physician, 
 and even now is full of medical ideas, but 
 though his friends tried to make him a doctor 
 he ran off and went to a trade, in which his 
 talents made him successful in a few years. 
 But instead of adhering to his place, he made 
 a change in his 27th year and in his 34th, a 
 very evil year, he made perhaps his worst 
 mistake in giving up a good and profitable 
 marriage, droping his business, and coming 
 to California, from New York, where he had 
 wealthy friends, which he thinks now a great 
 mistake. A good wife would have made him 
 happy and saved him wealth. 
 
 The California location was of course dis- 
 astrous in his 41st year. He failed in busi- 
 ness and lost everything, though his services 
 would command three or four thousand dol- 
 lars a year. His 48th year brought him loss 
 in partnerships, which he knows were all mis- 
 takes, and in bank deposits, and he suffered 
 from partnerships in his 55th year, 1870. 
 
 But now in his second cycle, the severe cal- 
 amities have ceased, yet in his G2d year, 1877, 
 
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he was salivated. After his 58th year he had 
 no serious trouble, and his health improved, 
 but the time for fortune had passed, and he is 
 now nearing his end humbly, though con- 
 tented in mind, and is ready to see a better 
 world. He recollects no serious troubles ex- 
 cept in his Friday years, and sees how the 
 warnings of periodicity would have saved 
 him. It seems that judgment becomes less 
 reliable in our Friday years. May such ex- 
 perience prove profitable to others. 
 
 PERIODICITY OF NAPOLEON. 
 
 Many an illustration of periodicity might 
 be found in biography and history, but while 
 finishing this little booklet, uncertain how 
 soon the pen may drop from my hand, I am 
 unable to make the research. 
 
 But I must select one famous example, in 
 the life of that imperial scoundrel, Napoleon 
 Bonap£irte, whose crimes have debauched the 
 world's conscience so completely that he still 
 receives a tribute of admiration. 
 
 He passed through his evil periods utterly 
 unconscious of the law he was fulfilling, and 
 all nations have done the same without warn- 
 ing heretofore. 
 
 In evil periods men seem to rush on to their 
 fate by the mental obscuration that belongs 
 
 124 
 
to darker periods, and it seems to have been 
 so with myself. 
 
 Shall it always be so ? I trust not, for the 
 divine light of Christianity, which is the light 
 of Heaven, will penetrate the dark twilight 
 of the obscurities of life, and the law of peri- 
 odicity will mark the dangers in our path. 
 
 Napoleon was born August 15, 1769, and 
 there is a singular harmony in consequence 
 between his periodicity and that of the Amer- 
 ican Republic, seven years younger, one in 
 July, the other in August. Both were des- 
 tined to disturb and break the Holy Alliances 
 of consolidated despotisms, and both came to 
 grief in similar periods (he seven years earlier.) 
 1811-18 for the United States in an unsatis- 
 factory war with England, which we wisely 
 dropped, while we were protected by the gi- 
 ant power of Napoleon in conflct with Eng- 
 land, and 1804-11, for Napoleon, when he 
 started his fatal policy which we assisted by 
 fighting England. 
 
 1816 was a disastrous year for the United 
 States and I have already said that accord- 
 ing the law, our war would have been far 
 more disastrous if prolonged into 1816, with- 
 out thinking how periodicity would have 
 been fulfilled ; but looking to Napoleon we see 
 that he too was on his downward career and 
 held England in check, beginning in 1812 his 
 insane war with Russia, fighting England in 
 
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Spain and the allies in France, going down 
 in 1814 and '15, when England might have 
 turned upon the United States, but in 1815 
 the sinking giant rose again and occupied 
 England's hosts until summer, protecting the 
 United States. But in December, 1814, the 
 United States, guided by Henry Clay, had 
 concluded a not very glorious treaty, (saying 
 nothing about imprisonment of American 
 sailors), and Jackson's victory at New Or- 
 leans two weeks later, gave us some consola- 
 tion ; but if the war had continued to 1816 
 with the unembarrassed power of England it 
 would have been terribly disastrous to the 
 United States, from which we may learn that 
 when we are running down in our Friday 
 periods and contests, it is well to have a wise 
 friend like Clay to lead us into the path of 
 peace and safety. 
 
 Returning to Napoleon, we find his good 
 periods of development and education run- 
 ning as follows: 
 
 Sunday to August 15, 1776. 
 
 Monday to August 15, 1783. 
 
 Tuesday to August 15, 1790. 
 
 Wednesday to August 15, 1797. 
 His evil periods were: 
 
 Thursday to August 15, 1804. 
 
 Friday to August 15, 1811. 
 
 Saturday to August 15, 1818. 
 
 Sunday three years to 1821. 
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As the Wednesday passes away the life 
 struggle begins that exhausts and ends in 
 death. I have not time to study Napoleon's 
 first three periods of growth which made him 
 a great man. The decadent periods of crime 
 and desperation were Thursday 1797 to 1804, 
 Friday 1804 to 1811, Saturday 1811 to 1818. 
 How did they develope — as in Napoleon, and 
 so in similar characters. 
 
 The turn of the tide comes in Wednesday 
 1790 to '97 when he entered his blood}- ca- 
 reer. In December '93 he captured Toulon. 
 In 1895 thinking of enlisting with the Sultan 
 of Turkey, he slaughtered the National Guard 
 in Paris by cannonade, and was made com- 
 mander of the army ; and in March '96 (evil 
 year 27th) marched to Italy, and in the same 
 month married Josephine — a marriage that 
 came to misfortune. 
 
 May and June were his evil months, March 
 and April not propitious. Josephine was six 
 years and fifty-three days his senior, which 
 established discord between them placing her 
 in his unfavorable month June and insuring 
 much dissatisfaction on her part in personal 
 intercourse, and insuring that he would be 
 fascinated at first sight, being almost in a 
 Sunday relation to her. I do not need to read 
 any memoirs to realize the many petty irrita- 
 tions that must have arisen which his impe- 
 rious temper would not tolerate, though he 
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must have admired and loved her. She eould 
 not be entirely happy in such a relation, not- 
 withstanding it promised much love and 
 he must have realized a lack of harmony.— 
 He was too selfish to be faithful which she 
 would feel, aud she must have found persons 
 more agreeable in manners than her husband. 
 Look into her history, and I am sure this will 
 be verified. As to her months, Murat was 
 better suited to her than Napoleon and so 
 were all oi Napoleon's brothers, except Louis 
 (Sept. 2, 1778) who was exactly fitted to be 
 devoted to Napoleon w r hich he was but had 
 moral principle enough to try to do his duty. 
 Joseph, Lucien and Louis all had principle 
 enough to object to the criminal career of 
 Napoleon, who was the black sheep of a good 
 family. Joseph and Lucien had dates discord- 
 ant with Napoleon's and Lucien quarrelled 
 with his policy and broke off, starting for 
 America 1810. 
 
 The marriage to Josephine was dissolved in 
 its unlucky 13th year. 
 
 His campaign of lawless brigandage went on 
 grandly and dishonorably in Italy, in his evil 
 year 1796, and in his better year 1797 and in 
 his good mouth, October, Austria yielded to 
 his prowess. 
 
 In June 1798, the evil month ol his first 
 Thursday year, he went to Egypt, which 
 might be called a piece of land piracy, and 
 
 128 
 
made himself master, but left an infamous 
 history. Disaster followed. Nelson destroyed 
 his fleet, convulsions and massacres followed 
 in Cairo, and he marched across the Syrian 
 desert to attack Jaffa and Acre, where he was 
 defeated and had to return in Cairo in his 
 evil month June 14. 
 
 In his better month August he returned to 
 Paris and became first Consul, actually em- 
 peror. In 1800 ( Tuesday year of Thursday 
 period) he displayed administrative vigor 
 and success, made a successful campaign and 
 peace with Austria, Feb. 9, 1806, and in the 
 same year with Pope Pius, and a treaty of 
 peace with England, March 1802. 
 
 He established a system of government for 
 France, entirely despotic, aiming chiefly at 
 military success. 
 
 His Italian polic}- irritated the English 
 government and in the Friday year of his 
 Thursday period 1803, and his evil month 
 May 18, England declared war. It was not 
 necessary that this evil period should involve 
 him in war, but his own defiance of fate and 
 of all moral law made his evil periods ter- 
 rible. 
 
 Losing sound judgment at this evil time, he 
 thought of invading England, and expected 
 to be received as a liberator. The evil pas- 
 sions almost blind the judgement. At this 
 129 
 
time Cadoudal and others were conspiring 
 against his life which alarmed him so as to 
 result in the murder of Duke d'Enghein, and 
 in May r (unlucky month) he crowned himself 
 Emperor of France and King of Italy. 
 
 The assumption as King of Italy and Em- 
 peror in this unfortunate year (Friday of 
 Thursday next to worst — being the 34th — 
 paving the way to his 41st year) alarmed all 
 Europe and in 1805 (the second year of his 
 Friday period, a coalition was formed against 
 him by England, Russia, Austria and Sweden 
 and a sensible monarch would have sued for 
 peace, but war began in September 1805. 
 This was the beginning of his destruction and 
 would have been w r orse if begun in June. But 
 at Austerlitz he won a complete victory for 
 1805 and 1806 were the best years of his 
 Friday period, and in Feb. 1806 Naples was 
 conquered and in June Louis his brother made 
 King of Holland and in October his good 
 month 1806 he defeated Prussia and Austria 
 and entered Berlin, and in November started 
 his mad campaign against British commerce 
 by the famous Berlin and Milan decrees, com- 
 manding Europe to obey him, which were 
 ultimate failures and did more than any- 
 thing else to bring on his destruction. In 
 July 1807 he got Russia to submit to his 
 crazy commercial war against England, then 
 made further encroachments on the rights of 
 
 130 
 
the people and began war with Portugal to 
 enforce his commercial war against Fngland. 
 
 in 1808 he seized the royal family of Spain 
 and made his brother Joseph KingofSpuin, 
 his brother Jerome becoming King of West- 
 phalia, and swept through Spain successfully 
 with 100,000 soldiers, and in 1809 he again 
 subdued Austria, in his lucky month October. 
 
 To a superficial observer he was in the flood- 
 tide of fortune though he was really treading 
 on the quicksands ot ruin. Friday bedevil- 
 ment must be paid for terribly. Many a 
 knave has been considered successful when he 
 has put $100,000 in bank, but has only 
 damned his own soul. 
 
 In all his gigantic and desperate movements 
 since 1803 he was only rushing spasmodic- 
 ally and insanely to ruin, for love is life and 
 hate is death. He was driven out of Spain 
 across the Pyrennees, and soon defeated 
 everywhere. 
 
 General Jackson and Abraham Lincoln were 
 wiser than Napoleon. They were not scour- 
 ges but patriots. In their 40th and 41st 
 years, instead of stirring storms and shedding 
 blood they were avoiding rashness, living 
 comparatively quiet and modest lives. 
 Neither had any success or prominence in 
 their Friday period. Jackson farmed and 
 traded, lost money ana was wounded in a 
 duel which did him no credit. 
 
 131 
 
In Napoleon's eight years ot criminal folly 
 came forth his crazy decrees, all in his evil 
 years; beginning Nov. 1806, repeated Nov. 
 1807, Dec. 1807 and January 1808, and Aug., 
 Sept., Oct. 1810, all unexampled in folly — the 
 last commanding the burning of all English 
 goods in every country he could control. 
 This was a fatal period (1810 the fatal year) 
 and roused the hatred of Europe, ruining 
 commerce by blockading decrees. Providence 
 passed sentence then by universal law, and 
 1811 to 1818 w r as the time of its execution. 
 
 In Dec. 1809 he divorced Josephine and his 
 desperate struggles to enforce his commercial 
 war on all Europe brought their natural con- 
 summation in 1812 in his insane war on 
 Russia ( — toenfoice his decrees of 1806 — 10) 
 — a war declared in his unlucky month, May, 
 Terribly and horribly defeated there, he 
 assailed Germany in 1813. Defeated by the 
 allies, he tried to drive them out of France, 
 but was conquered and sent to Elba 1814 
 in his fatal month of May, the third year of 
 Saturday — the fourth year ending his career 
 as a prisoner instead of being hung like 
 minor criminals. 
 
 But his war with England in those years 
 was o r great assistance to the United States 
 which it was his periodic destiny to help and 
 the destiny of the United States to help him. 
 
 Blind to his real condition he rose again 
 132 
 
in March 1815, widely detested and met his 
 fate at Waterloo, abdicating in his fatal 
 month June, surrendering to England in July 
 and imprisond at St. Helena, dying in his 
 evil month May 5, 1821, going to a world 
 not entirely congenial to his nature. 
 
 His surrender was in the 4th year ol his 
 Saturday period and his death in the third 
 year of his second cycle in the Sunday period, 
 the death was a good event for him giving 
 him centuries to reform. 
 
 He was crushed and put finally to rest in 
 the fourth year of his Saturday period, but it 
 was predetermined by the insanities of his 
 Friday period which came to their maximum 
 in 1810 the Friday of Friday. What followed 
 after that was beneficial to him and to the 
 world. His Friday insanity was too intense 
 to be conquered by one defeat, and his seventy- 
 five years in the higher world have not yet 
 restored his moral equilibrium. 
 
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FINAL LESSON. 
 
 If we rebel against Providence we learn 
 nothing and continue ignorant. But when 
 evils come it is our duty to seek ttn cause in 
 ourselves— in our good and bad qualities. 
 Reform yourself before you try to reform the 
 world. 
 
 It is evident that if you had been good, wise 
 and great, you would have conquered evils 
 and gained success. Ii you have not done 
 this study your iailures and mistakes, and 
 see wherein you are below the highest stand- 
 ard and resolve to do better. 
 
 THE FINAL HEAVENLY RULE. 
 
 To this advice I would add my best gift as 
 a friend to every reader. 
 
 Love is the secret of life — true life — happy 
 life — successful life. It will carry you high 
 above misfortune and land you in heaven. 
 Find what you can love, and love it with all 
 your might. The more love you have, the 
 more happiness, the more health and the 
 more success you will have. Life will be joy- 
 ful and friends near you. 
 
 Young man love your wife, body and soul, 
 with overflowing love and fidelity. Young 
 
 134 
 
woman love your husband but choose him 
 
 BY THIS BOOK. 
 
 We must begin by loving mother and 
 father, and if your soul is large enough to 
 love God from whom all blessings come — and 
 if you can love Jesus Christ, who is the 
 world's example oi a perfect life and tr\ r to 
 imitate him, your prosperity is assured, and 
 your evil periods may be conquered if you do 
 your best, and in the land of the blessed you 
 will remember with gratitude the counsel of 
 voiir friend— The Author. 
 
 Periodicity compared to Astrology. 
 
 Prof. Cameron, who is one of the best 
 astrologers in the United States, has made 
 the following statement : 
 
 Having studied the indications of periodi- 
 city throughout my life according to the 
 doctrines of Prof. Buchanan it seems to me' 
 that as far as I can recollect they have been 
 entirely true. If I had known this science 
 in my youth it would have saved me from 
 great mistakes and financial losses. For the 
 last thirteen years I have been a student of 
 Astrology, which also shows where I had 
 made mistakes and seems to confirm the new 
 Science of Periodicity from the beginning to 
 the end. A. E. Cameron. 
 
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