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DIVINATION & AUGURY IN A MODERN LIGHT 223
Astrologers have often been able to make correct prognostications as to destiny by being given the hour of birth of a child, and Palmists by seeing the palm but they say such right guesses are explained sufficiently by either thought-reading and clairvoyance, or by the impression of a spirit. We want more light on this subject: we want careful testing of each affirmed connection. Personally I have given the system of astrology a study, and have come to the following conclusion: that the discrepancy between the Eastern and Western systems is only in details, not in essentials; that the general facts of astrology are true, but that the science is full of rash statements made by some individual observers and based on partial observation, accepted by others without question and handed down as a tradition. Every statement wants to be thoroughly tested by the spirit of modern investigation, and large masses of facts should be systematically .collected before inductions are made. Also I have noted that the connection between the planets and the destiny is not so much one that shows an absolute
necessity for the event, but rather shows the season when such and such an influence will be rife in the "air", i.e., in the anima mundi or in the astral light, and if I know that the human being whom I am Considering will be forced by that influence to act by habit, and will not have will or wisdom to resist the influence, I can prophecy his conduct. If one is a close observer of the sun's positions, he will doubtless, observe that
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