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 Facts of Science, 
 
 New and Ancient Knowledge. 
 
 By BENJAMIN JUDKIXS, 
 
 Author of many fugitive sheets. 
 
 Astronomy, Astrology, Geology, 
 U. S. Weather Bureau Investigations, 
 Flaming Worlds, Flaming Swords, 
 Black Age, Destiny, Mighty Changes, 
 Glimpses of Eden, Transit of Plan= 
 ets, Ancient Patrons, Mystery, Ep= 
 itaph, Press Reports, List of Publica= 
 tions. 
 
 Olmsted Co. Print. San Diego, California, U. S. A. August, 1897. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 This little book has been published and sent out 
 by subscription at the request of citizens, not merely to 
 be read and cast aside, but to be considered and kept 
 for reference by legislators, local rulers, leaders and 
 teachers, who are true to themselves and mankind, for 
 such, in case they are curious, I append my horoscope: 
 fer" Benjamin Judkins, 
 
 805 Union street, 
 
 San Diego, 
 x v > s ' California. 
 
 Born June 20, 1846, at three o'clock in the after- 
 noon, at Hackney, three miles north, north-east of fifty- 
 one degrees, thirty minutes, forty-eight seconds, north 
 latitude and five minutes, forty-eight seconds, west 
 longitude, Greenwich; now 5 feet 10 inches high. 
 
 For twenty years I lived in Australia the land of 
 Eucalyptus, bird and tree of paradise, and fine climate. 
 Two thousand five hundred miles from east to west 
 and two thousand miles from north to south, the 
 healthiest climate in the world. There in Australia, 
 with its vast undeveloped gold and other ores, as late 
 government assayor's reports show, there the astrol- 
 oger will yet find the land of greater destiny for hu- 
 manity than any on this planet Enquire of the author 
 of this book, Benjamin Judkins, 
 
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 Facts of Science. 
 
 ^^k "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge 
 
 Hosea 4:6. 
 
 "Too low they bnild who build beneath the stars.' 
 
 In 1884, at San Diego, California, I sent out this 
 
 % query: Red-sky sunsets, what do they mean? Egyptian, 
 
 "i Persian, Grecian, and Roman astronomers, record no 
 
 such signs in the heavenly bodies as exist in this 
 
 * century. 
 
 Since then I have read the new and true chronol- 
 ogy, Facts of History, by the great astronomer of the 
 United States, Prof. Totten, of Milford, New Haven, 
 Connecticut, who makes things very plain in his 
 Joshua's Long Day. 
 
 Only recently, in our Public Library, I saw the 
 New Astronomy, with its grand pictures of sun spots, 
 by S. P. Langley, Ph. D., of Allegheny Observatory, 
 but most astronomers, of today, deal more with cause 
 than effect. 
 
 Funk and Wagnall's grand, new, standard diction- 
 ary defines Astrology as the a^t of applying astronomy 
 to human uses, and by the calculation and prediction of 
 natural phenomena. This was the ancient astrononi}^, 
 called natural astrology. 
 
 Astrology, then, is the science which predicts 
 eclipses of sun and moon, and judicial astrology is that 
 which studies to foretel the destiny of men and empires. 
 Hence, the business of astrologers (not quacks); but, as 
 Prof. Totten puts it, as past masters in astronomy and 
 the science of history, is to interpret the signs in the 
 Heavens. 
 
 The ignorance of the last two hundred years has 
 
classed astrologers with all but the wise and good; and, 
 as a desire for knowledge of the science increased, the 
 sage was dubbed a fortune teller, by the self-sufficient 
 ignoramuses. Christ taught that "the laborer isworthy of 
 his hire." Luke 10:7. Hence, if any person desires to 
 be informed of such facts as will aid him or her to em- 
 brace opportunities and avoid danger that must be 
 passed in life's journey, they will gladly pay towards 
 the cost of knowledge and expensive telescopes that 
 enables the astrologer (not quacks) to cast their horo- 
 scopes by a search of the heavens for and calculation 
 by the stars they w 7 ere born under, in the absence of 
 governmental control of the science which would put 
 every one in their right place. 
 
 Astronomers have weighed the sun and planets 
 and analyzed their chemical compositions. Why not 
 individuals? A portrait of Spinoza, as a character, 
 showed the sun at his birth was in libra and near 
 Venus, as a calm forehead, clear and sanguine features, 
 are signs of sincerity. The brightest stars in the con- 
 stellations are named with letters of the Greek alphabet 
 and have borne the names of heroes thousands of years. 
 
 Astrology once permeated all sciences, all religion, 
 all politics, and taught that only heaven-sent rulers 
 were the true saviours of the people. Prof. R. A, 
 Proctor said the heavenly bodies do rule the fates of 
 men and nations in the most unmistakeable manner, 
 for without the sun all living creatures must perish. 
 
 Sir R. S. Ball, in his Cause of an Ice Age, rather 
 discounts the fact that the ancients consulted the stars 
 for the purpose of reading, in their movements, changes 
 in human affairs. Astrologers cast horoscopes for the 
 career oi men at birth, statesmen sought the stars for 
 
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guidance in affairs of empires and decisions could only 
 be safely taken on all matters, after a consultation with 
 the heavens* 
 
 If this was so, why should it not be now? Answer: 
 because we have accustomed ourselves to fatten on the 
 vices and ignorance of our fellows, and discriminated 
 against the just; which the much dispisecl Moslems, to 
 whom the western nations are indebted for the sciences, 
 would scorn to do, as none will keep a saloon. 
 
 Astrology is not opposed to religion, but rather 
 supplemantary, as we may see in Genesis 15:5; Koran 
 86 re. North Star. 
 
 ASTROLOGY IN THE EAST. 
 
 There is no Mahomedan of learning in Persia or India who is not an As- 
 trologer, rare works upon that science are more valued than any other and it 
 is remarkable that, on the most trivial occasions, when calculating nativities 
 and foretelling events, they deem it essential to describe the planets, etc.-— 
 Sir John Malcom. 
 
 Those who may think astrology heathenish can 
 find in Numbers, 24th ch. the source from which all 
 churches draw their inspiration for the divinity of 
 Christ, the word Jesus being sifted from the Arian 
 means knowledge spreader, Physicians would better 
 be able to diagnose disease and farmers have better 
 crops if planted in a certain phase of the moon. 
 
 TO ASTROLOGY. . 
 
 "Hail! first-born of science, eldest child of good! 
 That bless'd mankind the earliest from the flood: 
 That taught each sage, who held superior sway 
 In old Chaldea. to calculate and pray; 
 That bade the sons of l£gypt to be bold. 
 The truth and Nature's mantle to unfold, 
 Sublime Astrology! the pride of man. 
 That aids a mortal god-like truths to scan; 
 Scoff 'd at by fools, who rashly thee condemn— 
 Incapable of thought, thou art too high for them; 
 Or basely practis'd for the love of gain, 
 By other fools, who study thee in vain. 
 
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St. John in his vision saw a great sign in heaven, 
 a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her 
 feet, and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. See Rev. 
 t2th ch. 1st v. 
 
 There shall be signs in the sun, moon and stars, 
 Luke 21:25. Most astronomers are agreed that in 1892 
 there was more sun spot vigor than ever before which 
 have given rise to fears in their minds for the safety of 
 the solar system. Prof. Tolten's hope of history, page 
 191 says: "The perihelia of the planets bring in their 
 train solar spots and magnetic atmospheric and terrest- 
 rial storms with their physical and mental consequenc- 
 es." And page 197 five commensurate periods of Jupiter 
 and Saturn have occurred in the past 300 years, the last 
 in 1850, and timed the dreadful Irish famine* and one 
 in 1797 when yellow fever was in every American port, 
 and France, insane, denied all forms of GOD. And we 
 will not pass out of the influence of these planets till 
 1899.* 
 
 *R~ere I wish to say, that for mnch of the suffering in faminous times, 
 in Ireland, which was aggravated by the Landlords drawing- the food sup- 
 plies into England. It will be safer to consult Irish history, as many histories 
 have been considered corrupted tohide unpleasant facts. 
 
 We see b\ T the light of thousands of years, 
 
 And the knowledge of millions of men; 
 The lessons they learned through blood and in tears 
 
 Are ours for the reading, and then 
 We sneer at their errors and follies and dreams, 
 
 Their frail idols of mind and stone, 
 And call ourselves wiser, forgetting, it seems, 
 
 That the future may laugh at our own— Hostetters. 
 
SCIENCE AND FACTS BORNE OUT BY THE 
 STATISTICS OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. 
 
 Dr. Frank M. Close, a past president of the Ta- 
 coma Academy of Science and a man well known in the 
 scientific world. He said, Nov. 24, 1895. 
 
 What are known as the "Babalonian tablets" are a 
 set of inscribed plates — book leaves written thousands 
 of years before the Christian era, in which is given an 
 account of the Noachian deluge. These tablets were 
 exhumed from the ancient city of Ninevah and are now 
 in the British Museum at London. They state that 
 Capricornus was the ruling sign of the zodiac at the 
 time of the deluge. 
 
 Berosus a Chaldean astronomer, wrote the history 
 of Babylon, and quoted the Babylonian tablets, and he 
 further declared that when the sun and planets again 
 occupied the zodiacal sign Capricornus another world 
 flood would happen. It is proper to here say that the 
 term "flood" or "deluge" does not mean the end of the 
 world, nor the total extinction of life upon the globe, 
 but the subsidence or sinking of a great bcdy of land, 
 such as a continent, beneath the waters of the ocean, 
 as in the case of Atlantis and Lemuria. Every nation 
 upon the glebe preserves the legend of such catastro- 
 phies, one of which was the "flood." 
 
 Just now the planets are rapidly approaching 
 that position in which the earth will be on cue side of 
 the sun and all the rest of the planets on the other, all 
 ranged in nearly a straight line. To such arrangement 
 the bodies of the solar system are tending. The major- 
 ity are now there, the others rapidly falling into line. 
 
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Beginning on December 9, 1901, and until the 26th 
 of that month, the sun and all the planets will be in a 
 direct line; only the earth will be alone at one side of the 
 sun at the end of the line, and the balance of the plan- 
 ets on the other side of the sun; and the entire solar 
 system, sun and planets, will occupy astronomically the 
 zodiacal sign of Capricornus. 
 
 Whether the conclusions of the Babylonian astron- 
 omer prove correct remains to be seen. The fact exists 
 that the planetary conditions will obtain. 
 
 Science is not absolutely sure, but is pretty certain 
 that the interior of the earth is a molten mass, fluid and 
 hot. in the best possible condition to promptly obey a 
 physical law: the indurated crust of the earth being., by 
 comparison, but a thin eggshell. Granted, then, that 
 the laws ol magnetism are correct; that the operation of 
 magnetism is correctly stated and that the planets are 
 magnets, terrestrial disturbances are perfectly normal 
 results. The postulate rests mainly upon the determina- 
 tion of the subject that the planets are magnets. Sci- 
 ence is unanimous in declaring that the earth is an 
 electro-magnet, made so by the current of electricity 
 coming from the sun. and which in her axial revolution 
 she is continually winding upon herself. We have no 
 reason whatever to assume that any other member of 
 the solar system differs in this respect. 
 
 During the present year the meteorological phe- 
 nomena have been extremely marked. The Weather 
 Bureau reports the highest and lowest temperatures 
 ever recorded as occurring in 1895. Storms of except- 
 ional severity have occurred. The precipitation of rain 
 and hail has been abnormal. Numerous large meteors 
 have been observed, and last, the volcanic and seismic 
 
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disturbances have been unprecedentedly numerous and 
 wide-spread. The Weather Bureau long since determ- 
 ined that the meteorological phenomena of the earth 
 were in some way governed b} T electric emanations from 
 the sun, and in March last Professor Bigelow of the U. 
 S. Weather Service publicl} r announced that "the at- 
 mosphere of the earth is under the influence of the po- 
 lar (electric) magnetic radiant energy from the sun." 
 Today the Weather Bureau is conducting delicate in- 
 vestigations to the end that the secret may be discover- 
 ed. We may, therefore, read in the planetary aspect 
 the causes of the terrestrial disturbances. 
 
 As these few events out of scores from S. F. Exam- 
 aniiner June 26, 1897 w ^ show. 
 
 January 19 — Waterspout 1,000 feet high witnessed 
 by sailors at Tahiti. 
 
 June 9 — Remarkable meteor seen at Santa Fe N. M. 
 
 June 12 — Severe earthquake in India, resulting in 
 the loss of 6,000 lives. 
 
 June 18 — Tornado sweeps over Logan county, 111. 
 Cyclone wrecks two villages in France. 
 
 June 21 — Tehauntepec, Mex., destroyed by an earth- 
 quake 
 
 June 24 — Terrific hailstorm in Kansas. 8f oz. 
 
 Since 1897 began a famine has been raging in India 
 as the result of unusual climatic conditions. It is among 
 the most appalling famines of recent calamities. The 
 area affected comprises about 160,000 square miles, with 
 a population of 36,000,000. The area actually visited 
 by famine in its severest form measures 121,000 square 
 miles, and has a population of 54,000,000. 
 
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Within the same period an island of the Pacific dis- 
 appeared beneath the sea. 
 
 April 30 — Terrific earthquake in the West Indias. 
 Lives lost and much property destroyed at Guadaloupe 
 
 May 1 — Violent earthquake at Lima Peru. 
 
 May 4 — Tidal wave sweeps steamer Whitesboro on 
 the sands near Greenwood, Cal. 
 
 May 6 — Windstorm causes much damage at Boise, 
 Idaho. 
 
 May 12 — Streams of lava flow from Mt. Vesuvius. 
 May 13 — Island thrown up by volcanic action in Moro 
 bay, near San Luis Obispo, Cal. 
 
 May 14 — Severe earthquake in Western Nevada. 
 
 May 17 — A cloudburst devastates Salmon valley, 
 Idaho. 
 
 March 3 — Cloudbursts and tornadoes cause great 
 havoc in many Eastern States. 
 
 March 9 — A large meteor falls at New r Benton, Ohio. 
 
 THEORY OF A BURNING WORLD. 
 
 Science says that during the last three hundred 
 and fifty years thirteen fixed stars have disappeared in 
 flames. La Place, the French astronomer, gave it as 
 his opinion that they were worlds burnt up, which 
 must ultimately be the fate of this earth; this theory is 
 based on facts revealed by geology, w T hich attests that 
 the crust of the earth is only thirty miles thick and 
 heat increases one degree even' sixty feet, after the 
 first one hundred feet, so that at the centre of the 
 earth's interior there would be two thousand degrees of 
 heat; granite melts at fourteen hundred degrees, and 
 fine steel would be like liquid. This shows we walk on 
 a globe filled with fire, of which volcanoes are the 
 
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safety valves. Some may say two-thirds of the earth is 
 water, and how can water burn. Science answers: 
 water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and when 
 separated will burn like powder, aided by sulphur 
 gases and oil, the elements of its own destruction, it 
 c . niy needs the Almighty fiat to decompose the two 
 elements of water and the elements would burn with 
 fervent heat, as we read in 2 Peter 3:10, till the tainted 
 air was freed from the cause of wasting disease. 
 
 Again, it is not improbable that great volcanoes in 
 mid ocean, might so crack it as to let great waters into 
 the eternal fire and the steam would shatter the earth 
 or it might so change its axis of rotation that the North 
 pole might turn over to the South pole. Hence, the 
 scripture saying: Behold the LORD maketh the earth 
 empty and turneth it upside down. Isaiah 24:1. 
 
 Scandinavians have a tradition that the sun, in 
 ages gone by, rose in the south, instead of the east as 
 now. If some shall say: What good will it to do us to 
 know all this? I answer, much every way. The 
 author of New Astronomy opines the sun's heat may 
 3 T et be stored in some way, by science of mechanics, to 
 be used in case of an ice age, 
 
 FOREKNOWLEDGE. 
 
 God foreshows wh-at is to come upon men, not to gTieve them, but that 
 when they know it before hand, they may by prudence make the actual ex- 
 perience of what is foretold the more bearable.— Whiston's Josephus, chapter 
 5. page 65. 
 
 Again, people can be instructed to move from the 
 land of volcanoes to safer latitudes. I could give many 
 reasons here, but am limited to means. 
 
 The Flaming Sword, edited by Koresh at Ninety- 
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ninth street, Chicago, 111., claims to know, by analysis, 
 how to make real gold. 
 
 The moon is said to be a cold, dead and frozen 
 world of extinct volcanoes, with deep and awful cavi- 
 ties, a vast ruin of nature, silent as the grave. What 
 became of its inhabitants? Reader, ponder, are we 
 growing cold towards each other, violating a law of life 
 and so inviting our own destruction? 
 
 Soon, as the evening shades prevail, 
 
 The moon takes up its wondVous tale 
 And nightly, to the listening earth, 
 Repeats the story of its birth. 
 
 Just now it would be interesting to know the horo- 
 scope of Attila of the Huns from Mars or the scourge of 
 GOD as he was named. See Encyclopaedia. 
 
 This is taken from Raphael's Prophetic Messenger, 
 of London, England, astrologer 19th century. 
 
 "During the year 1897 the first 5,000 years of the 
 Kali Yuga Cycle ends. It is the black Cycle, hard as 
 iron and black as hell. The fate of mankind hangs in 
 a balance. He will either gravitate down to rank ma, 
 terialism, or fall a victim to gross superstition. The 
 former is the most likely, as at present everyihing tends 
 to mammon; gold, gluttony, and sensuality are the lead- 
 ing features at the present day. Spirituality, or the 
 awakening of the higher faculties and powers of man, 
 is almost dormant and forgotten, and the craze of wealth 
 and notoriety reigns supreme. We are told that the end 
 of important cycles are generally marked with terrible 
 cateclysms, or earthquakes, not only of the earth itself, 
 but in the minds and passions of man, hence we may 
 expect not seismic disturbances alone, but great wars, 
 
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immorality, unheard of crimes, and a general rebellion 
 against authority. 
 
 Just what the destiny of this earth is, remains to 
 be seen, All people have longed for a heaven on it, 
 but all do not work for it, as GOD, HEAVEN, JUSTICE 
 and NATURE wills. That retribution and restitution 
 are at hand none need doubt. R. A. Proctor, Astrono- 
 mer, many years ago said about 1897 to 1899 the heat of 
 the sun would be so increased as to destroy life on the 
 earth. 
 
 Some astronomers say that the giant planet Jupiter 
 which is 85,000 miles across the surface has only 3 de- 
 grees incline plane to its orbit which causes the sun to 
 shine on it with eternal spring in which the inhabitants 
 thrive at 14 feet high with eyes twice as large as ours, 
 which suggests these lines: 
 
 GLIMPSES OF EDEN. 
 
 1*1 -some dim land of long ago 
 I hear the silent waters flow 
 To folds afar with bloom, I know, 
 In some dim land. 
 
 Of dreams alone is that strange laud, 
 Where I in solemn silence stand, 
 Hearing strange voices from the strand— 
 
 Of dreams alone- 
 Songs sweeter far than earth below, 
 Like winds of heaven that come and go, 
 But in some tongue we do not know- 
 Songs sweeter far. 
 
 Above our speech that spirit sings,, 
 Each strange sweet word has strong swift wins 
 We hear but sad sweet murmuring-s 
 Above our speech. 
 
 We may not know what in them lies— 
 Glimpses of Aden's long lost skies"; 
 What dreams of heaven and paradise — 
 
 We may not know.— Bennett Bellman., 
 
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LINES 
 
 Applicable to to the Reality of Astral Influ- 
 ence. 
 "WhBt are ages and the lapse of ti me, 
 Matched against truths as lasting as sublime? 
 Can length of years on God hinself exact? 
 Or make that fiction which was once a fact? 
 No : Marble and recording brass decay, 
 And, like the graver's memory, pass away: 
 The w^orks of man inherit, as is just, 
 Their author's frailty and return to dust; 
 But truth divine'forever Stands secure, 
 Its head is guarded, as its base is sure; 
 Fixed in the rolling flood of endless years. 
 The pillar of the eternal plan appears. 
 The raving storm and dashing wave defies, 
 Built by the Architect who built the skies, 
 
 — Cowper. 
 
 The soul secured in her existence, smiles at the 
 drawn dagger and defies its point. 
 
 The stars may fade away.; the sun hiraselt grow 
 dim with age and nature sink into years; but thou shalt 
 flourish in eternal youth unhurt amid the war of ele- 
 ments; the wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds— 
 Catos's Solil. 
 
 READ IN THE STARS. 
 
 "Silent indeed those orbs roll on, 
 Slient they rove the heavens upon, 
 
 And silent track their way; — 
 But if the eye doth glance along them, 
 A mighty tale is read amongthem— 
 
 Deeds of a future day." 
 
 Review of the Transit of the Superior Peani 
 
 Through the different signs of the Zodiac, with an account of the chief corre- 
 sponding events in English history, to show that the rules laid down by 
 Ptolemy, &c, as to certain sig^ns ruling, or sympathising with, certain 
 countries, are Indubitably True. 
 
 N, B. — Aries is the ascending sign of England, or 
 that which chiefly influences her affairs. Libra is the 
 opposite sign, and when planets are therein, they are 
 
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inimical to the interests of England. Aquarius rules 
 the house of honor of London, and influences the laws 
 and affairs of state. Gemini rules London more partic- 
 ularly. Remember that Saturn and Mars are evil. Ju- 
 piter good, and Herschel sometimes good and sometimes 
 evil. 
 year 
 
 50 Caracticus was carried in chains to Rome, Her- 
 schel was in Libra. 
 426 The Romans finally quitted Britain. Herschel in 
 
 Aries. Jupiter in Libra. 
 915 The University of Cambridge founded. Herschel 
 
 in Aquarius. 
 1215 King John forced to sign Magna Charta. Jupiter 
 
 in Aries. Saturn in Libra. 
 1344 Gold first discovered in England, Herschel in 
 
 Aries. 
 1408 Disgraceful conduct of the Prince of Wales, who 
 is at length sent to prison for striking a judge 
 upon the bench. 
 1437 English forces in France meet continual defeat. 
 Joan of Arc beats them, and at length England 
 loses all her possessions in France except Calais. 
 1525 Henry the Eighth commences his attempt to di- 
 vorce Queen Catherine. N. B. Jupiter in Aries 
 last year and part of this, the effect of Saturn's 
 ingress was not so mischievous. 
 1643 Civil war raged furiously between Charles the 
 First and the Parliament. The Excise first es- 
 tablished. 
 1 731 The infamous "charitable corporation" formed, 
 which brought disgrace and ruin upon thousands. 
 No less than six members of Parliament were ex- 
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pelled the House for ;j sordid knavery; 5 ' and many 
 persons of rank and quality joined this famous 
 conspiracy. 
 
 1761 The Spaniards joined France in her war against 
 England. 
 
 1661 Great changes in the laws. Herschel in Aquirius 
 
 1665-6 The plague and fire in London. Herschel, Sat- 
 urn and Jupiter in Aquarius. 
 
 1677 The Habeas Corpus act obtained. Herschel and 
 Jupiter in Aries. 
 
 t686 King James the Second attempt to overthrow the 
 Constitution, Jefferies and other tyrants deluge 
 the land with blood. Saturn in Libra. 
 
 1688 The revolution 5th November, Jupiter in Aqua- 
 rius on the 22nd Oct, Saturn still in Libra; 
 which brought disgrace on the King, 
 
 1690 Battle of the Boyne. Jupiter in Aries. 
 
 1692 Bank of England established. Jupiter and Her- 
 schel in Gemini. 
 
 1775 War broke out with our American Colonies. Sat- 
 urn in Libra. N. B. Herschel and Jupiter in 
 Gemini, which rules America. The war lasted 
 all the time Herschel was in the sign; 7 years. 
 
 1780 Herschel in Gemini; which rules London. In 
 May the evil planet Mars passed an opposition to 
 Saturn from Gemini, while Jupiter was in Librr*> 
 Dreadful riots took place in London, near 400 
 lives lost. N. B. On the 2nd of June there were 
 four planets in Gemini, and a new Moon fell on 
 that sign in opposition to Saturn. 50,000 people 
 go up to the House of Commons with a petition 
 sitid great tumults broke out. 
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179? Dreadful riots in England, the mob, in possession 
 of Birmingham four days, destroy Dr. Priestly's 
 house, etc, This when Jupiter entered Libra, 
 and was opposed to Saturn, who was in Aries. 
 Goldsmith thus describes the dreadful state of the 
 country: "At this period a general paralysis ap- 
 peared to seize the country— the number of bank- 
 ruptcies exceeded all that had ever happened in 
 the most calamitous times; such was the general 
 distress, that each man looked upon his neighbor 
 with suspicion." This transit of Saturn through 
 Aries, at length plunged this country into war 
 with France. 
 
 1796 Saturn still in Gemini. Herschel formed a square 
 aspect to him from Virgo, The bank stopped 
 payment. 
 
 1798 April 20 Habeas Corpus act suspended* Mars on 
 that day entered Aquarius, in square aspect to 
 the sun and Jupiter, who had just left Aries. 
 
 1829 Saturn in Leo, May. The ruling sign of France, 
 Troubles Began, the changes of ministry, etc. 
 At length the revolution of July, 8,000 lives lost, 
 and final expulsion of the Bourbons*— Zadkiel. 
 
 ASTROLOGERS. 
 The following is a list of great men who have stud- 
 ied and practised Astrology. A few reflections on their 
 character may tend to show the w r eak men who abuse 
 the science in trumpery newspapers how little ground 
 they have for their ignorant enmity. 
 
 Zoroaster, Pythagoras, Hipocrates, Thales, Aristotle, 
 Cicero, Socrates, Galen, Claudius Ptolemy, prince of 
 the science; Josephus, the Jewish historian; Polydorus 
 
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Virgil, Albumazer, Arabian, A. D. 844; Sir Edward 
 Kelly, 1550; J. Kepler, founder of the Nestorian Astron- 
 omy; Dr. John Dee, Mr. John Milton, the poet; John 
 Dryden, Poet Laureate, 1631; Mr. Flamstead, first As- 
 tronomer Royal, 1646; Sir Christopher Hayden, 1561; 
 James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, 1580; Lord Fran- 
 cis Bacon, B. 1587; Bishop Robert Hall, B. 1597; Rev. 
 John Henderson, William Lilly, B. 1602; George Digby, 
 Earl of Bristol, 1612; Right Hon. William Pitt, 1759. 
 
 Surely these men could not all have been wanting 
 in sagacity, so far as not to be able to detect the fact, if 
 astrology were all a dream; as those only declare who 
 have never studied or examined it. 
 
 BLACKBOARD LETTERS. 
 
 Benjamin Judkins has created a big interest among 
 people at the street corners in the evenings on great 
 events at hand as read in the stars. Awful volcanoes 
 now raging in the sun, equinoxes of Jupiter, the great 
 planet, as a disturbing element on our earth and atmos- 
 phere for some months to come, illustrating on a big 
 blackboard a remarkable conjunction of Jupiter and 
 Venus that came about on Feb. 6th, 1892, in the last 
 signs of the Zodiac, which to them who could read 
 wrote the name of Jehovah, Authority, Justice and a 
 year on the sky, as described by Professor Totten in his 
 wonderf ul star lecture before 3500 people in the Boston 
 Music Hall, which with two important eclipses, one on 
 October 20th, at sunset, marked the close of 400 years 
 of American history, another November 4th, 1892, and 
 the cycle now culminating in the great Mazzaroth may 
 indicate that the people's cause is about to be tried in 
 the courts of Heaven, and not of earth. Judkins quotes 
 
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the "Boston Star Gazer/' also thirty eminent men who 
 endorse a book called "Forty Coming Wonlers," and 
 the "Flaming Sword" of Chicago. 'Some events likely 
 to happen are as follows: 
 
 i. A big star may blaze out in Cassiopia at any mo- 
 ment and thrill the whole world with profound excite- 
 ment. 
 
 2. In 1898 a big exodus of all Jews from all coun- 
 tries into J erusalem. 
 
 3. March to December 1903, world-wide preaching 
 such as never known before. 
 
 4. August 1904 to January 1906 big famine makes 
 wheat ten times its present value and food very scarce 
 over the fourth part of the earth. 
 
 5. October 9 to 27, 1903, hail mingled with fire and 
 b ood falls on the earth. 
 
 6. February or April 1904 a big burning mountain 
 may fall into the sea from the sky as a result of volca- 
 noes in the sun. 
 
 7. August to October 1904 third part of the sun, 
 moon and stars eclipsed. 
 
 8. January 1906, to May 1907 death over one-fourth 
 of the earth by sword, hunger and pestilence. 
 
 9. December 26, 1907, to January 1908, big earth- 
 quakes in cities. Sun moon and stars unusually dark- 
 ened. 
 
 Since 1801 over 300 meteors have fallen to the earth 
 weighing from 17 to 55 lbs, and one in the museum at 
 Washington city nearly 2000 lbs., and one in Brit- 
 ish museum about the same, and one fell on the shore 
 of Greenland weighing 20 tons. See "Meteors'' in Stan- 
 dard Encyclopedia.— Herald of Light, July 3, '95. 
 
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ASTROLOGY AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
 
 More of Judkins' Prophecies Summarized. 
 
 Big crowds at our street corners in the evenings 
 still continue their interest in the blackboard illustra- 
 tions and talks of Benjamin Judkins on great events at 
 hand as read in the stars. It seems strange to some that 
 a man in such poor circumstances should devote his 
 time thus without fee or hope of reward, but his moral 
 force, earnestness, simplicity, will-power and outspok- 
 enness may account for the attention of the people, 
 and from what we hear the city papers have not gained 
 by ignoring his talks. This is the last summary of his 
 many talks w^e will find space to print. 
 
 Mr. Judkins says the great signs now in the heav- 
 ens are as ominous as in the past ages when wise men 
 and scholars watched the starry skies at night to spell 
 out in the A B C of the stars the designs of GOD. The 
 Zodiac was the first book of revelation to primitive man. 
 Astrology with the ancients was the key of all wisdom 
 in all politics, religion and law. The poet Milton spoke 
 of planetary influence in human affairs. The Arabs 
 from Abraham (see Gen. xy:§) viewed the symbols of 
 the stars and the mighty tales they told with admiration 
 and awe. R. A. Proctor, astronomer, for whom it is 
 proposed to erect the largest memorial telescope in the 
 world close to San Diego, said that men's minds would 
 be more active at the close of this age. Napoleon first 
 spoke of his star of destiny. Now Libra or blind jus- 
 tice, with scales in her hands, is seldom mentioned since 
 the Prince of Seers revealed them to the king of Baby- 
 lon in the words MENE, MENE, TEKEL, (Daniel v: 
 15). Napier, Lilly, and Tycho Brahe, a most eminent 
 
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astronomer in 1570 A. D., and scores of students, schol- 
 ars and common people to-day believe in astrology pure 
 and simple. Huyghens and Kircher were skilled in 
 reading the predictions of the stars relative to the hu- 
 man mind and temperament. The face was so formed 
 says Aristotle, to look up to God. 
 
 The Scientific American, June 8th, informs us that 
 three of the six visible planets, beginning with blazing 
 Venus, was so bunched in Gemini as to make an aw- 
 fully grand figure in the sky, not seen for eternal ages. 
 
 The New Testament revelation (xixiiy) speaks of 
 an angel standing in the sun, another figure suggestive 
 at this juncture of Armagaddon, to usher out the old 
 aion (Greek age) so clearly shown in his Race series by 
 Prof, Totten, the astronomer of New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Some of its teachers have been cruelly martyred, 
 yet astrology seeks to benefit the human race, and must 
 be of divine origin, else we would not have the Bible 
 record of the Magi who traced out and followed from 
 distant lands so unerringly the star of Christ to his 
 birthplace, and (Enpassant) the word Magi, from 
 magician or wise diviner; also, astro, star; and logos, 
 word, study of stars. The most beautiful dream of his- 
 tory is the story of Joseph, the wise diviner of Egypt 
 (see Gen. 40 to 47), by whose foresight, corn was 
 stored up in the seven years of plenty and his people's 
 lives and homes saved from usury and wreck in the 
 seven years of famine. 
 
 It may yet be demonstrated that pure astrology 
 has predicted and can predict the destiny of men and 
 empires. In the seventeenth century, in Germany and 
 many other parts of the world, astrology was dominant, 
 and in parts of Germany today a child's horoscope is 
 
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taken and put in the chest with the certificate of 
 baptism. The Dead Sea of Sodom is an awful monu- 
 ment of a nation's destiny, so is Babylon, Tyre, Nine- 
 veh and Palestine, the latter having passed away under 
 a sword-shaped star-comet and other omens which stood 
 over the city for twelve months before the invasion by 
 Vespasian in 70, A. D. See Josephus' history. 
 
 Now 7 while we are on the qui vive for strange 
 events, 1899 being set as an ominous year (see Prof 
 Totten's forthcoming book on Daniel's vision), citizens 
 have suggested that subscriptions be taken up to secure 
 the opinion of the celebrated astrologer of the Boston 
 "Star Gazer," to see what part San Diego, thus far a 
 favored spot, will have in the millennium, so close at 
 hand. With good water systems built she may be able, 
 and even called on, to supply produce to famine-stricken 
 lands, or store it for home use. To the wide awake the 
 vision is worth the cost. But hope, which springs 
 eternal in the heart, longs to leap into a golden age to 
 outshine that of a far past. 
 
 Hesiod, in his Five Ages of Man, in "Works and 
 Days," says the first golden age had a distinct race who 
 lived in perfect happiness on the fruits of the unfilled 
 earth, did not suffer any bodily infirmity, and passed 
 away in gentle sleep. Then the earth was the abode 
 of the gods. The second race was degenerate and re- 
 iused to worship the gods and was buried by Jove in 
 the earth. The succeeding race worshipped fire, air, 
 water, sky, sunset, twilight and dawn, believed thunder 
 was the voice of God and lightning his hand stretched 
 out against the guilty. Later, men worshipped idols of 
 wood, stone, etc., when Justice w T as banished to Libra 
 and Faith to Virgo among the stars. 
 
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Whether from tradition, or how, Egypt, in one 
 stage of civilization, preserved ideas of a most glorious 
 past in the superb figures sculptured in colored marble 
 smd paintings on the walls of her streets. Populous 
 NO, for instance, which inspired in her heroes honor 
 and nobleness, and a taste for well-watered gardens, 
 which taste of Eden came along with the Moors and led 
 them to build the Palace at Granada, in Spain, which, 
 for beauty of design in colors and splendor, has been 
 the wonder of time, and in 1750 Halley, an astronomer, 
 named some constellations of the southern hemisphere 
 after the Phoenix, Bird of Paradise, Peacock and Noah's 
 dove, as if to commemorate those days of beauty, com- 
 fort and joy, in that remote past. — Herald of Light, 
 August 22, '95, 
 
 PHILOSOPHY, 
 
 There must be want and woe 
 While man is forced to be man's fiercest foe. 
 
 The social structure needs a sounder base, 
 Unjust conditions fetter half the race. 
 
 The finer human feelings are suppressed 
 
 And selfish maxims steel the warmest breast. 
 
 They prosper best who play the meanest role, 
 'Tis well in business not to have a soul. 
 
 No more where Lincoln lived is manhood prized, 
 Wealth wins its way where patriots are despised. 
 
 No more on Freedom^ soil is freedom found, 
 The man with money is a king uncrown edl 
 
 For social ills society's to blame, 
 One child in misery is a nation'' s shame. 
 
 —The Vagrant. 
 
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IF CHRIST SHOUID COME TODAY. 
 
 BY JAMES G. CLARK. 
 
 I have come, and the world shall be shaken 
 
 Like a reed, at the touch of iny rod, 
 And the kingdoms of time shall awaken 
 
 To the voice and the summons of God; 
 No more through the din of the ages 
 
 Shall warnings and chidings divine, 
 From the lips of my prophets and sages, 
 
 Be trampled like pearls before swine. 
 
 Ye have stolen my lands and my cattle* 
 
 Ye have kept back from labor its meed ; 
 Ye have challenged its outcasts to battle, 
 
 When they plead at yourfeet in their need; 
 And when clamors of hunger grew louder, 
 
 And the multitudes prayed to be fed, 
 Ye have answered with prisons or powder, 
 
 The cries of your brothers for bread. 
 
 I turn from your altars and arches. 
 
 And the mocking of steeples and domes. 
 To join in the long, weary marches 
 
 Of the ones you have robbed of their homes; 
 I share in the sorrows and crosses 
 
 Of the naked, the hungry and cold, 
 And dearer to me are their losses 
 
 Than your gains ana your idols of gold. 
 
 I will wither the might of th? spoiler, 
 
 I will laugh at your dungeons and locks. 
 The tyrant shall yield to the toiler, 
 
 And your judges eat grass like the ox : 
 For the prayers of the poor have ascended 
 
 To be written in lightnings on high, 
 And the walls of your captives have blended 
 
 With the bolts that must leap from the sky. 
 
 The thrones of \-our kings shall be shattered 
 
 And the prisoner and serf shall go free; 
 I will harvest from seed that I have scattered 
 
 On the borders of blue Galilee; 
 For I come not alone, and a stranger — 
 
 Lo! my reapers will sing through the night 
 Till the stars that stood over the manger 
 
 Shall cover the world with its light. 
 
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Will religious teachers step forward and explain to 
 their audiences Christ's Parable of the Sower in Matt. 
 13, in connection with the 8th, 9th, 10th arad 20th 
 chapters of Revelation and the Sphinx, as the scenes 
 are about to open. 
 
 Many persons of variolic nations, in authority in 
 other lands, from his sayings and doings, have believed 
 the author of this book to be a minister of Divine 
 Justice. Moral: Do not curse yourself by opposing the 
 truth as many persons in the churches have done. 
 
 ENIGMA SEEK. 
 
 I was before man. and I am over his doom, 
 And I dwell on his mind like a terrible gloom. 
 
 In my garments the whole of creation I hold, 
 And these garments no being but GOD can unfold. 
 
 Look up to heaven I baffle your view, 
 Look into the sea and your sight I undo. 
 
 Look back to the Past — I appear like a power 
 That locks up each unnumbered hour. 
 
 Look forth to the future, my finger will steal 
 Through the mists of the night and affix its dread seal. 
 
 Ask the flower why it grows, ask the sun why it shines, 
 Ask the gems of the earth why they lie in its mines, 
 
 Ask the earth why it flies through the regions of spact,, 
 And the moon why it fallows the earth in its race; 
 
 And each object my name to your querry shall give. 
 And ask you again why you happened to live. 
 
 The world to disclose me pays terrible cost, 
 Yet when I'm revealed I'm instantly lost. 
 Mystery. 
 
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Poets and sages, now no more, 
 Each had a star of hope before, 
 
 Which marked their earthly way to fame, 
 Who sang of Nature's grand unseen, 
 
 That Wisdom's ocean had no shore. 
 With star of Christ wise men came 
 
 Guided by its light and name; 
 May I not have a star the same 
 
 To show some future prospects bright 
 To comfort me along in life 
 
 Why should I come and go alone 
 Down in darkness and unknown. 
 
 B. Judkins. 
 
 EPITAPH. 
 
 Here lies one who listened for the spirit of truth from GOD in 
 conscience to guide him aright, yet while in life, was by some men in 
 thought cast on the rubbish heaps of the world. 
 
 Weakly, sickly persons are invited to write for circulars on the 
 new discovery Vitae Ore to Theo Noel, a great geologist, 858 W. Polk 
 St., Chicago, 111. 
 
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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 
 
 For Information of the public I here append a list of first-class as- 
 trologers and their reliable publications as I have found them to choose 
 from: 
 
 Prognostic Star Gazer, monthly, devoted to horoscopes. Thos. A. 
 Bearse, 172 Washington street, Boston, $1. A lady in the West says 
 of Mr. Bearse: ''You have for the last seventeen years convinced me 
 that astrology predicts correctly." 
 
 P. Tomlinson, Box 3408, Boston. Massachusetts. 
 
 Planets and People, monthly, $2.50 a year, grand pictures on all 
 forms of knowledge, by great astrologers and alchemists, who will 
 build a $200,000 Temple. Sample copy, 25 cents. Address, 169 Jack- 
 son street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Raphael's Almanac and Weather Guide, illustrated, 20 cents. 
 
 Pearce's Text Book on Astrology, at Public Library, grand book. 
 
 The Flaming Sword, monthly, $1 a year. Most radical religious, 
 and social scientific paper ever printed, also their new book on Science 
 of Life, by Koresh, West Ninety-ninth street, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Wonders of the Heavens, illustrated, by Flammarion, the French 
 Astronomer. 
 
 Gospel in the Stars, charming and strange, by Dr. Seiss. 
 
 Dr. Knapp's History of Epidemics. 
 
 Next Step in Progress, 10 cents. Limitation of Wealth, 10 cents. 
 Devoted to limitation of fortunes and land to occupying ownership. 
 Address, John H. Keyser, 115 Beekman street, New York City. 
 
 Human Nature, a monthly journal, devoted to Phrenology, Physi- 
 ognomy, Health, Medical and Social Reform. Prof. Allen Haddock, 
 Practical Phrenologist, 1016 Market street, San Francisco, California. 
 Fifty cents per year, single copies five cents, in advance. 
 
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