A and longitudinal units.

The ecliptic or longitudinal arcs of the Sun's apparent motion measure the shift of the Sun's electric field in the earth in the plane of Fig. 2 and

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"commutative" points of current events. Neither measure can supplant the other. Both must be considered for any complete understanding of the manifestations of the Invisible Power. For the one perpetual riddle of

nations and individuals is weighing the changing inducements (ecliptic arcs) and trying to decide which among these many impulses will, if obeyed, "turn

out right" (right ascensional arcs). Hence,

(c) When the problem is one of timing and qualifying the current event, the input or output in world affairs, use the Placidian arc-the R. A. arc of the Sun, as per equation (4).

(d) When it is a problem of timing and qualifying the pressure, demands, inducements or impulsions, use the Sun's longitudinal arc as follows: Add to the precessional M. C. of the place the longitude of the sun from the vernal equinox. The sum is the longitude of the progressed M. C. To example this, let us direct the New York zenith on the ecliptic arc for the time of the Solar eclipse, May 9th, 1929, in 18°07' Taurus.

(5) 12°41'Aq M. C. New York 1930, Table I - 01' Correction to 1929

12°40'Aq M.C.

312°40' Long. M. C. in ecliptic 48°07' Long. eclipse in 13°'07’Ta 360°47'

360°00' Reject circle

0°47'Ar Long progressed M.C.

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sentiment or demand by employing the R. A. arc when the two equations so differ. Conversely, the place of a "current event" cannot be located by employing the ecliptic measure of the field force, except where they happen to agree in length. As a matter of fact a public or individual demand or urge may arise in one locality and cause "current events" to flow some,where else.

While this complicates the riddle it is a condition in life and of the electromagnetic laws which we cannot escape, and it is no excuse to ignore the fact because it does not make astrology quite as simple as many of its believers wish it to be, nor nearly as simple as all its critics think it to be.

In a dynamo or motor the commutating brushes may be set a little ahead or behind the plane of the pole pieces ¹ . If too much so there is a sputtering or sparking at the commutator. So, too, in the cosmic machine the Sun's R. A. arcs sometimes result in the Midheaven of a place "leading" the Midheaven as computed by the longitudinal arc, and sometimes "lagging" it.

When the former is the case there is a current event followed by a psychological reaction in terms of an inducement or demand. In the latter case an individual or public demand arises and leads to the current event, and it is then said to be its cause instead of its effect. If the delay (arc difference) is maximum there is truly much sputtering or agitation about it. If the directions agree by both arcs, then it is one of those "psychological moments" when the subjective urges or the inducements and the objective events are "timely" with respect to each other.

It is because of these facts that we observe in one case, or at one time, that men make conditions. At another time conditions make or unmake the man. And still again, at some crucial moment, the man and the circumstance

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simultaneously. Naturally this gearing of the Invisible Power has led both wise and foolish minds into very antagonistic notions as to the question of freewill and determinism, with the same sort of pointless testimonials on both sides as may be accumulated for and against a patent medicine or any individual or sociological panacea.

Another point. In all branches of astrology there is much confusion among students as to the use of the direct and converse arcs. While for simplicity the Solar arcs have been discussed and will be largely exampled as though they applied only direct (eastward in zodiac), the reader is to understand they also apply in the converse (westward) order. The reason is

to be found in the oscillatory nature of currents electro-magnetically induced by light waves.

Electrical laws here apply as in radio, with no difference whatever except that the frequency is higher and the characteristics of low-frequency conductors and dielectrics are further reversed. Those unfamiliar with electrical phenomena may revert to the simpler, though imperfect, analogy of the pendulum. As long as the driving force is applied the pendulum swings

through equal opposite arcs in equal times; the time depending on the

length (compare with wave length). Electromagnetic waves radiate equally in opposite directions unless distorted or weakened by reflecting or absorbing mediums. The inductions they set up are alternating. At light frequencies

there is no sensible before or after in the timesense and no appreciable before or behind in the spacesense ¹ Therefore the use of direct and

converse arcs of direction is not limited in either case to pre-event and post- event concepts arising from our slow timesense.

While it is beyond the scope of this text to stress or prove

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the need of sub-dividing the twelve "houses" (electric axes) of a figure on the one-sixth, one-half and five-sixth of the semiarc, to conform to the more complete set of known electrical axes as revealed in crystals, it would be unfair to the broadminded student and to the utility of this text not to cite a case as example. To this end the San Francisco earthquake will be cited in the next chapter. The correlative fact-that 15°, 75°', 105° and 165° are just as much "aspects" (electrical axes) as the better recognized angles ¹-will possibly appear in some of the examples.

Indeed there is in astrology so much in need of reform and extension that it is impossible to discuss any phase of the science from an electrical approach without doing violence here and there to the notions of copyists who in exalting the old masters decline to add to the science the fruits of recent researches in kindred fields.

Further rules of interpretation are omitted from this text, as they follow the same lines as those given in standard texts for the judging of aspects, elevations and house position; except that the aim should be to consider the cuspal aspects rather than resort to a mere desultory observation of the house placements of the planets. It may here be said, however, that nothing startling should be too readily predicted from one testimony only. It is advisable to check up the configurations of all eclipse figures of the year with the ingress or precessional cusps and to direct for a11 the eclipses and ponderous stationaries, etc., as usually there will be found several important arcs bearing on the places of chief events.

It is very essential that the investigator free his mind of the assumption that an eclipse must necessarily precede an event.

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Such is not the case at all ¹. Eclipses foreshadow striking events of the year, some before and some after the eclipse, according as the progressions and transits may excite the eclipse and planets' places thereat. The same holds true of other elective figures of the year, such as stationaries, great conjunc- tions, new moons, etc. As the author's text on the fixed stars explains how eclipses generate the current of events, and why they signify events which precede them as well as those which follow them, the reader should turn to that work to clear up this enigma. Ouspensky's Tertium Organum is recommended to those who would see beyond the illusions which bind the average consciousness to the wheel of time ². See also preceding remarks on direct and converse arcs.

Before proceeding to instructive and verifying examples there is another technical consideration which must be made clear. In Chapter lI it was stated the Sun's apparent diameter must be taken into account in the world horoscopes, just as in considering some directions in a nativity. As is well known, the Sun's disk subtends a geocentric angle of 32'. How this relates to the precessional cusps of Table I, and to their directions for the times of eclipse and events can best be explained by diagram.

Refer to the geocentric diagram, Fig. 3.

When the Sun is centered on the vernal equinox, at B, the Greenwich meridian is given in Table I as 1°19' Taurus. But as the Sun radiates electromagnetic waves at light frequencies over a channel 32' in width- beyond which they are weakened by deflection, or, as we say, by diffusion- these parallel radiations bombard the earth over a channel of equal width, with possibly more equal voltage amplitude over the whole

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channel than we have heretofore supposed; certainly much stronger than the deflected or diffused rays which spread out on both sides of this channel and illuminate half the earth with decreasing intensity towards the twilights of dawn and dusk. This is proven by the fact that the magnetic compass deviation from normal at a given station is greater at noon than at morning or evening.

When the Sun's east limb contacts the equinox ¹ the Sun's center is at A, and the Greenwich meridian as explained in reference to Fig. 2 Will be 1°19'-16', or 1°03' Taurus. When the Sun leaves the equinox, centering at C with its west limb contacting the equinox ¹, the Greenwich meridian is 1°19'+16', or 1°35' Taurus. As the inductive transference at the equinox begins with the Sun at A, centers as maximum at B and passes off at C, it follows that since the Midheavens and Ascendants, as in Table I, are for the center, B, there is a channel 16' east and west of each Midheaven within which events may be precipitated.

Similarly the Ascendants in Table I are for the Sun at B, and they, as also the cadent and succeedent cusps, have a limiting arc or channel of influence within which major events may "crystallize" on either contact as well as when centered. The limiting arcs of the oblique cusps are more or less than 16' each way, depending on whether their motion is swift or slow as compared to the zenith motion.

Thus the Ascendant of London is 17°10' Leo, and there are 85°.5 O. A. in each ecliptic degree at that point in the lati- tude of London. Therefore the cusp limits become

16'X60' = 11', 85'.5

or from 16°59' to 17°21' Leo. As comparison the Ascendant of Los Angeles is

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16' X60' = 25’ 39

or from 0°59' to 1°49' Aries.

For many practical purposes it suffices to allow a quarter-degree east and west of each cusp as calculated for the epoch, but it has seemed necessary to explain this point technically, otherwise the beginner would find some events argue the table's base should be a fraction of a degree farther east, while others would argue it should be a little farther west. Thus he might perhaps at once set about to revise in a moment, and without proper familiarity with the whole problem, what the author has taken twenty years to deduce after more considerations and misleads than a first reading of this treatise can respectively inspire and avert in the reader.

It seems to depend upon the general strength of the figure whether great events coincide with the limiting contacts or the center. Herein lies an unlimited field for further research;

a field of rare delights for those of mathematical leaning and critically keen analysis.

In making tests of localities with nativities, after the manner in Chapter VI, it was repeatedly found by directing their "birthday

localities" by the Solar arc, that the west limb contacts (C, Fig. 3)

predominated at localities when the native left the place; east limb contacts (A, Fig. 3) when he approached a place for the first time or tarried casually and passed on; and central (B, Fig. 3) contacts at the places where he stayed to more importance. This is exactly what theory would antici- pate. There are exceptions, but thus far they are in the mi- nority.

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mean between them. Indeed it was the repeated appearance of such

inequalities as 16' of arc on the Midheavens, and their corresponding equivalents in the oblique sphere, that finally led to the consideration of the Sun's light channel or the arc of its disk. Much fruitless and disappointing quest might have been avoided had this fact and a better grasp of electromagnetic laws been earlier brought to bear upon the riddle.

Just as a radio-broadcast transmitter must have a carrier channel ten kilocycles in width to transmit the 5000-cycle high notes of music on each of its sidebands, so it seems the cusps and planets require a band the width of the Solar disk its undeflected light channel-in which to function their "beat notes" upon the carrier wave of Solar light reflected by them to earth. Just what this statement means will be clearer to those who carefully study the companion text on the fixed stars.

It is quite within possibility, however, that a still more exhaustive research might reveal some overlooked technical consideration as would render void the present conclusion that the Sun's disk must be considered in the foregoing manner. It is far from the author's thought that this treatise is the last word on a subject which by its very nature involves and absorbs all other sciences.

Time may prove the semi-diameter of the Sun should be considered more often when the arc of direction is taken for an eclipse than when taken for the time of event, or when directing the BL figures for personal events as in Chapter VI. In some cases to which the solar disk seems to apply, a more searching investigation will show the apparent disparity to be due to taking the

direction in the field plane of the wrong planet, or to directing on the ecliptic (sine latitude) when the event is one pertaining to a planet's field

CHAPTER V