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(5) The Mystic Test Book OR THE. MAGIC OF THE CARDS.. Giving the Mystic Meaning of these Wonderful and Ancient Emblems in their Relationship to the Heavenly Bodies, Under all Conditions; With Rules. and Processes for Reading or Delineating. the. Emblems.. COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED. Written and Compiled Under the Authority of the Mystic Brotherhood,. BY. OIvNEY H. RICHMOND, GRAND MASTER OF THE INNER TEMPLE OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE MAGI. Author of "Temple Lectures.". Chicago,. ". Religion op the Stars," Etc.. III.,. U. S. A..

(6) :bf/s7s. Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Copyrighted 1919. By. OLNET. H.. RICHMOND. (g)GI.A52589l. JUN I6ly!9.

(7) Important JVottce* This work. fully protected by copyright according to. is. law. No. 4723 Y, issued January 23d, 1893. illustration. and. definition. is. Every. copyrighted, and. all. table,. persons are. warned against re-printing them or any part of them, under penalty of the law, which will be strictly enforced.. •. •. •. The owner of this book has signed an agreement whereby said owner is bound to not lend the work, or allow the use of the same to extend to persons outside his. own immediate. family, nor to allow any person to copy, nor obtain a copy of any of the rules, processes or engravings therein.. • This rule. is. •. •. designed as a protection to said owner, as well. and the good of the Order. It is intended and soiling of the book and the gathering of deleterious influences and magnetism by the promiscuous handling and loaning about the neighborhood that most books on occult subjects receive.. as to the author. to prevent the wearing out. •. •. •. This prohibition need not be construed so strictly as to prevent outsiders seeing the book, or even reading it in your. home. or presence.. If jôur friend or acquaintance wishes to. procure a copy, an order blank will always be sent, on application to us.. OLNEY. H.. RICHMOND, Chicago,. III..

(8) To the friends of owr secret order, within the sacred. and. who are regular attendants at our Grand Temple and unto those whose duties call them elsewhere. To all those who, having charity and hindness in their hearts and harmony in their souls, are willing to yield themselves to the worh of regeneration and advancement, with that energy characteristic of true mystics. To those who have an affinity fof the good, the pure and the true, as well as the spiritual advancement and development which enables them to comprehend the mysteries of the infinite and majestic universe. fold. without.. To those. To the faithful ones in Temple or Court, faithful. through water, through earth, through air, to the East, to the West, to the South and to the Jôrth, with all and through all. through. fire,. This volume. is. respectfully dedîcated by the author..

(9) Intr oduct torn The publication of this work was, we might say, forced upon us by the demand, before even a page of manuscript was prepared for the press. The demand was caused by members of the Temple, who recognized the necessity of a printed text book, from which they could study the meanings of the cards and their indications under the seven planets. These brothers and sisters naturally wished to perfect themselves in emblem reading as rapidly as possible, and they could not so perfect themselves, without a full and complete set of tables that tney could study and refer to at will. The next trouble that arose was the question of expense, as, aside from the printing, engraving, binding, electrotyping and matters of that kind, the author's time was, and is now so valuable that the item far overbalances those mentioned. It was finally decided that the most feasible plan, was to get out enough copies to supply more than our immediate membership and to sell them to outsiders under certain restrictions. We only intended, at first, to get out a book of about one hundred and sixty pages to be bound in cloth. But the generous subscriptions forwarded to us caused us to change our mind and we began writing additional copy. We are so occupied with Temple work, that this extra labor, together with superintending the publication and proof reading, has caused considerable delay beyond the time first set. We are sorry for this, but it could not well be avoided. Please remember, friends, that the price charged for this book is not f07' the size, nor the binding, nor the number of pages, but for the matter itself. The emblem delineation department is alone worth more than the price charged for the entire work. We have placed much other information in the book in addition to the tables of readings, in order to compensate our kind friends for the patient waiting and the numerous subscriptions they have procured for us. We certainly undertook the work at a time when the conditions were extremely unfavorable. We have been overrun with work in the Grand Temple, and down town shops engaged in the lines connected with book making are all full of World's Fair work. At last we have overcome the obstacles and here is the book v/hich we hope will please you. Respectfully and fraternally yours,. THE AUTHOR..

(10) 5nde;v» Page.. ..... The Book of the Seven Thunders The Origin. of Playing Cards. The Temple of Wisdom on Atlantis The Sacred Trident The Original. ". 22,000. ". Number. An Astronomical Measure The. Spirit of. Numbers. Emblem Value The. -. -. -. Prepare for Reading the Emblems. Quadration of the Test Book. -. Astral Powers of the Months and Days of Mystic Crosses. Recapitulation of the. -. Work. Definition of the Mystic. -. -. Clubs. ". ". ". ". Diamonds. ". ". ". ". Spades. The Solar Quadrate and the Cross. of Christ. 75. -. Emblems, Hearts ". 56-68. -. -. ". ". 61-62. -. -. -. 56. -. -. -. 51. -. -. ". .. -. -. -. 49 50. -. -. -. 43. .. .. -. 40 -. -. .. 39. -. -. -. -. 76. -. 128. 102. -. -. -. -. 156. -. -. 35. 38. -. .... Planetary Life and Time Lines. Example. 34 -. -. -. 22. 24 -. -. -. -. -. 19 -. -. .. Solar Value of the Cards. Drawing the Emblems. 18. -. -. Power, Development and Success. How to. -. and the Mystic Star. -. of the Cards. 15 -. Divine Soul. 9,. -. jq. -. -. -. The Joker and His Value. 9. .. -. -. Infinite, or the. Occult Properties of the. -. Years Ago. Sacred Seven. The Number of the. .. .. -. 180.

(11) 3ndi&x* Page.. Farther Explanation of Delineating. -. Characteristic Effect of the Planets. 182. -. -. -. -. -. 190. Wonderful Peculiarity Regarding the Effect of the Moon. 194. The Planet. 193. Jupiter, Millions of Years. Hence. -. -. The Wonderful Properties of the Test Book Tarots The Quadrated Astral Test Book. The Double. Triangle.. -. The Mystic Star. Example. Names. of the Tarots. -. -. Planetary Transformations. The Wonderful. 36 Tarots. 1.. Characteristics. The Lost Word. -. of Oriental Mysticism. Spirit Co-ordinations. -. -. Order of the Magi.. A final. vii. 244 .. .. 247. 252. -. 253. -. .. Word. 235 237. .. -. -. -. 233. 241 -. .... .... The Explanations of the Magic Chart Can This Be Chance?. -. -. .... -. 229 232. -. -. -. Strange Co-ordinations of the Mystic Triangle. Unique 3x3 Court Tarot. .. .... .... The Astro -phrenological Head Calculations of Potencies. 222. -. .... and Frames. 220 221. -. -. The Tarot and the Zodiac, Birth Tarots Formation of Tarot Number. -. -. -. -. 217. -. -. 214 214. -. .. .... of the 5 Points of the Tarot. Female and Male Lines. -. -. With Negative Astrals. 205. 210. -. -. Rules for Finding the Negative Spirit of Cards. Examples of Double Astrals. 200. -. -. -. -. -. 255. 256.

(12) INDEX Layout ..... Page. the Seven Planets. 258. The Quadratic Delineation Under. 257. Quadration of Tarots. Diagram. 264. of the Vibrators. 269. Parallelograms of Birth Tarots. 271. .. Chart of Magic Cross and Cubes. 274. General Birth Tarot Transformers. 276. Charts of Zedoic Coordinates. 278. The Great Mystic Triangle The Shadow of the Cross. 286. Chart of Minute Cards. Chart of. 284 .. 290. .. Normal Hour Rulers. The Zodiac Naturals The Mystic Story of Atlantis The Grand Cross of CM .. Astral-Phrenology.. 294 297 298 302. .. 304. AVith Chart. Rulings of the Zodiac. 306. The Four Test Book. 313. Crosses. Altar Cloth Used in Tarotology and Altars of. OM. 318. With Emblems. 320. Tanot Value and Souls of Tarots. 321. Transformation of Pyramid Tarots. 322. Marvelous Birth Element Tarot. 324. Diagrams of Twelve Month Diagrams The Great Electric and Diamond Groups. 327. Soruls of Other Wonderful Tarots. 334. Four Birth Card Zodiacs and Directions The Twelve Lights of OM and Colors. 338. Inspired Tarots.. 331. 336.

(13) CHAPTER. I.. Tfte l^tttfe ISooft* IHE BOOK OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS.. "And when the Seven Thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, seal up those things, uttered by the Seven Thunders, and write them. not.". "And. I took the little hook out of the Angel's hand and devoured and to my taste it was sweet as honey; but as soon as I had devoured it, it became bitter unto my inside." "And he said unto me, you must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings." it;. {Correct translation of Rev. JT,. 4,. 10. and. 11.). Dear Reader: S a text to and. it. this. work read and consider the above,. would be. as well to read the entire tenth. chapter of Revelations, for the whole book. is. a. mystic one. If. you are able. to " read. between the. will comprehend that the ". little. book. lines ". you. " that. was. capable of voicing the " 7 thunders," that. book of the mystic brotherhood. ever. know. At. in. the test-. Did you or did anyone. of another book that was. enough to "hold. is,. only and original. voices of the seven planets, Avas the. always made small. the hand?". last the utterances of the little. book which was sealed.

(14) ^. THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 10. its. wonders are to be unfolded partially that we. many. esy before. No. may. last. proph-. peoples.. V. Read Chapter. At. unto the gaze of men.. for a time, are to be opened. of Revelations.. other book that ever had an existence upon our planet,. has within. itself. the wonderful properties that are indubita-. bly attached to this. so "sealed" with hidden. attempts to " open" It is the oldest. book.. little. its. No. other "book" has been. emblematic meanings. as to defy all. pages.. book known and. it. existed long before the. modern written languages were thought. of.. extends so far back into the dim recesses of. Its history. we. the past, that. vdw&t per force. circumstantial evidence as to. its. ask our readers to take. early history and uses.. THE ORIGIN OF PLATIIfG CARDS.. The ancient. origin and uses of "playing cards,". the name they have been called by since the. XIV. which. is. Century. has been shrouded in mystery, and their invention has been. claimed by nearly every civilized nation upon the globe. The Chinese, Persians, Egyptians and several other ancient nations, claim the. A pack. honor of their invention.. of cards, said to be. served in the. Museum. also claimed that they. immemorial.. When we. a thousand years. old, is pre-. of the Royal Asiatic Society.. It. is. have been known in India from time. — {Cyc. Brit. ,. Art. Cards.. find a certain invention claimed by a large. num-. ber of Nations, scattered over our globe, in widely separated localities,. we must conclude. that none of. them were the. ventors, but on the contrar}^, obtained the inventions of. nation preceding them by. many. years.. in-. some.

(15) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. This. many. is. 11. actually the case with our test book, as well as with. other things used in modern times.. In addition to the great length of time that has elapsed since. its. invention,. we have the. fact to. contend with, that. the ancient and secret order that alone understood and used this. mystic book, sedulously guarded the sacred emblems from. They were each and. the knowledge of the outside world.. mark. or. them" upon any substance whatever, except for use. in. every one of them sworn not to "cut, carve, paint, write. the Temples of the Mystic Brotherhood.. MYSTIO EMBLEMS.. The. test. book has been called by various names, among. which the " Tarot Cards" appears ern works.. come. Why. in. many. they are tarot cards, will be seen. to the the tarot or. The. For instance; we. Tarot of the Bohemians,^''. Many. misled, by supposing that. some of the many substitutes for the the real tarot cards.. when we. magic square department.. modern writers however, have been. ". ancient and mod-. old genuine find in a. book are. work. called. by "Papus," a large number. of allusions to the test book, but strange to say, the writer.

(16) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 12. substitutes a pack of 78 cards containing Jewish. and Catho-. Symbols, Popes and Devils, for the genuine cards.. lic. I. quote from him a few passages. ". The Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from. generation to generation,. ume. the primitive book of ancient. is. This has been clearly demonstrated by Guilla-. initiation.. Postal, Court de Gebelin, Etteila, Eliphas, Levi. The key. A. Vaillant.. to its construction. and. J.. and application. has not yet been revealed, as far as I know.". (Preface to. work.) All very well, and true,. may. Magi. I ask, did the. if. from them, have. herited knowledge. Gypsies. On. pages 8 and. 9,. Papus. which has proved. for. enables. it. them. called the Tarot,. means. the book of Thoth. It. Adam, the book. test. book?. Gypsies possess a. to tell fortunes; yes; the. the book of. in-. of gaining a livelihood,. which the Gypsies. of Bibles.. is. —" The says:. their. who. to do with Popes, Devils. and "Angels of judgement" used in the bogus. Bible,. But what,. applied to the book.. of Egypt, or the. game. possess,. Hermes. is. of cards. the Bible. Trismegistus,. of primitive Revelations of An-. cient Civilizations.. "Thus. whilst the Freemason, an intelligent and virtuous. man, has. lost the tradition; while the priest, also intelligent. and virtuous, has. lost his. esoterism; the Gypsy, although. both ignorant and vicious, has given us the key which enables us to explain all the. symbolism of the ages.". The work from which the above quotations handed to chapters, I. me by. a friend, and. are. made, was. upon reading the headings. was delighted, thinking that a. fori found such headlines as. feast. was in. "The Astronomic. of. store,. Tarot;.

(17) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 13. Egyptian Astronomy; The Four Seasons; Application of the Tarot to Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrology; Fortune. But a perusal of the chapters. Telling by the Tarot," etc.. under these head. lines. gave no light whatever upon occult-. ism.. The. a. hook and wholly useless as a tarot hook.. test. cards recognized by the author, being worthless as. Reader, do not be misled by any of the so-called occult. works upon the. They. subject.. are very. quote and re-quote from each other, but the " blind leading the blind," and es,. behind. all this. enemy of our. possess the. it is. we can. all. the old story of. see without glass-. dust throwing, the secret hand of the great. order,. and. the. enemy of. The Egyptians were not the Test Book.. numerous and. The only people. science.. originators of the sacred. that were ever so situated as to. knowledge and acquirements necessary for such. a work, lived long anterior to the Egyptians.. That nation was the Atlantiaks.. This test book was. the crystalization of ages upon ages of observation of the stars. and planets, coupled with observations of the actions of. mankind. as. known. in that day.. Atlantis had an old and a grand civilization. last. remaining portion of. isted for. a vast continent, that had ex-. more than four hundred thousand. great Atlantic Ocean. now. She was the. years,. where the. tosses its waves.. The engraving shows the remnant. left, after. untold thou-. sands of years of wear and tear of the elements had degraded the continent and cast a great part of the detritus upon what. afterwards became the Continent of America.. Upon. a certain portion of this land, somewhat to the. South-East of the geographical center thereof, existed high-.

(18) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 14. lands from which the land sloped in. undulations unto the sea.. much. all directions. On this highland. by gentle. there were other. higher elevations in the shape of mountains, between. which a most beautiful and In the center of flected. on. its. fruitful valley reposed.. this valley, a small, nearly. round lake. re-. mirrored surface the mountain tops and the. pinnacles of palaces and temples.. THE FINAL KINGDOM OF ATLANTIS.. Upon. a large rock in the middle of the lake, the Atlanti-. ans builded the palaces of her Kings, gorgeous with costly stones and metals. built entirely S.. Grand bridges lead. to an. embankment. around the lake, except at four places to the N.. E. and West, reserved for entrances by water.. Upon. this. ring resided the Nobles of the Court and their families.. Outside the ring of land was a canal, used for purposes of pleasure, and. from. this,. canals branched outward to a "belt-.

(19) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. canal" surrounding the entire capitol.. 15. From the. belt canal,. other canals were cut between the mountains, North, South,. East and West, where the water found. by four. rivers, as. These. rivers. by the copious. its. way. to the sea. shown upon the map.. were kept constantly supplied with water rain-fall attracted. by the mountain group. about the capitol, and the good people residing in the four quarters of the island of Atlantis, used the four rivers as. highways. to their capitol. and. to transport their products. thither.. Reader, Atlantis was the only place on this earth where. The only place where The " Garden of Atlan-. four rivers flowed from one source. four Kings reigned in one capitol. tis," as. the island was called, for the inhabitants took rich. earth and covered the rock. many. feet deep therewith,. was. planted with every tree and fruit to delight the palate or the. eye of man. In the midst of this garden stood the palace of the Kings,. and the grand Temple. of. Wisdom, the Temple. of her. Priesthood, where the " Religion of the Stars" was the only religion. known. or practiced.. knowledge," against which. This temple was the " tree of the. champions of revealed. religion have cast their church thunderbolts. mas. for ages. and. ages.. ". and anathe-. In the day that thou eatest. thereof thou shalt surely die,". is. a formula. church endeavored for ages and ages to make. that. true.. the. Thou-. sands and millions of poor devoted followers of the truth. who have ventured ished for. The. to taste the "forbidden fruit" have per-. it.. first. "Garden. of. Eden" was. at the. North Pole; the.

(20) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 16 last, built in. commemoration. of the. first,. was on the island. of Atlantis.. We have. only given a rough sketch, of what could be ex-. panded into a large book, but tic. mind. into. in other works. About. it is. making a study. fifteen. upon. enough. to start the. mys-. of the various proofs given. this subject.. thousand years ago, Atlantis was in the. height of her glory, with her colonies planted in. commerce.. of the world, accessible to her. Her. all. parts. strongest. possessions, however, were situated in. Egypt and South. America, although she had. north as the great. lake that covered what. is. cities as far. now Michigan and. the chain of. lakes surrounding that state.. For instance, the great ago, nearly where her stands.. Only the. city of Bab, stood 14,600 years. modern. river,. representative, Chicago,. which. is. now. a small affair in this age,. was then a wide and beautiful stream, flowing_/rom the " Gfeat-Lake-of-the-Northland" to. miles farther north than where. New. the ocean, nearly 300. Orleans. now.. is. Nearly fourteen thousand nine hundred years ago, or about B.. C. 13,000, the order of the. Magi dedicated. their. Temple in Egypt; the country which was destined to become the theater of the future exploits of the mystic. first. brotherhood for thousands of years.. As long tion over. as Atlantis stood, she held the. all. parts of the earth,. supreme. subordinate to her in the occult and spiritual. But the time came. a few. hundred years. rible catastrophe hurled the. neath Atlantis and in. a. jurisdic-. and Egypt was of courseline.. later,. when. a ter-. rocky foundations from be-. day and night of the most heart-.

(21) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 17. rending and appalling crashes of earthquakes and thunders. and lightenings, the doomed country sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic.. Nothing was. left. but a few mountain tops, to mark the. place where a grand civilization had reigned. tain tops are. now. tral cluster of. These moun-. small islands, called the Azores, the cen-. which mark the. site of. the ancient Capital..

(22) CHAPTER. II.. Tfte Xletigton of tfte Stars* THE SACRED TRIDENT OF ATLANTIS AS THE HEAVENS 22,000 YEARS. IT. APPEARED. IN. AGO.. RELIGION based upon the stars of heaven, which men had gazed upon for thousands upon thousands of years, was the most natural one that could be conceived.. Their knowledge of the planetary system was very great, for they had, by patient labor and striving,. and. by. prolonged. calculation, not only gained aiarge. observation. and. amount of knowledge. but they had, through their spiritual development, became possessed of. means of gaining occult knowledge not obtain-. able through the physical, even with the aid of the best in-. struments of modern times. Therefore the Ancient Magi taught a good, pure, scientific. and rational. religion,. with symbolism of the grandest. kind and a system of morals not surpassed by any modern system..

(23) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The world made thereof,. a. a poor. man-made. hells; requiring. exchange when. it. 19. accepted in lieu. religion of gods, devils, heavens. and. an endless chain of rank absurdities to sup-. port the structure.. A BOOK OF SYMBOLS,. Any book in. written in a language other than symbolic, must. the course. of time become nearly non-understandable. "TUeOv VQvuttX. ^4-. v>ci.cx:edl. ê'vew.. '^'^-. ^^^^^. #'Tl!^. CI. TKelAoeiecw*^ e>texv.. #. -^-. -^-. ^^. ^M'. "^"^W. '^-. '*-. "TUe^-v^tt: i:^.v>o.. through changes of language and meaning of words, to say nothing of. loss. through translations from translations,. etc.. and among. all. But symbols are the same. in all tongues. peoples.. The German maiden understands. the meaning of a kiss.

(24) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 20. and gives. it. the same interpretation as does the English or. Spanish maiden.. Thus the. heart. is. an emblem of love the world over.. The. diamond an emblem of wealth.. The Ancient Magi understood. and they. this principle. understood the deeper hidden principle that underlies. symbolism, that. is. that there. thing that exists; that the. i§. also all. a spirit force back of every-. spirit force or astral light of a. symbolic thing becomes ajixed principle through the mind. and. A. spirit force of. man acting upon. for ages and ages.. it. materialist cannot understand this, for his. mmd cannot. grasp the meaning of spirit or mind.. When. the writer was young, the coffin was stained and. varnished usually only a few hours before being used, so that the peculiar smell came to be closely associated with. death and funeral sermons. I. have conversed with. many. tions experienced by myself. and. I find that nearly all. people regarding the sensa-. whenever. whom. I. smell fresh varnish,. I have compared notes with. have recognized the same thing.. A. shudder and peculiar. sinking of vibration connected with death.. Thus, by the. mere association for a few generations we have erected a symbol of death appealing. Emblems appealing. to. to only one sense, smelling.. the eye have more power because. they appeal by a higher vibration.. The. vibrations. coming. to the retina of the eye to produce the sensation of sight,. run into hundreds of. trillions per second,. than those producing smell or are quite powerful in ple have observed.. some. taste.. many. times higher. The symbols. directions, however, as. of taste. most peo-.

(25) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 21. SYMBOLISM OF NUMBERS,. At the very foundation of and geometry.. In. symbolism. all. the smallest particle seen under the to the largest. lie. mathematics. from. fact, the universe itself is built up,. compound microscope,. sun or even Nebula, on exact geometrical and. mathematical principles.. Men. have simply followed Nature's lead in the symbolic. The number seven. use of numbers.. interwoven through-. is. out the very warp and woof of Nature's handiwork. ancient books. we. a. number. Genesis. The. plan.. is. all. plan of sevens extending. find a divine. through the pages.. In. written from. great pyramids of. first to last. Egypt. on. are bristling. plan of mathematical and. throughout with a wonderful. geometrical calculation, based upon knowledge of the grandest kind.. The one.. But. basis of all. The this. numbers. number must be. is. infinite. number. number end. number. each in. itself in-. say, that there is. number. is. an. of uninhabited. of inhabited worlds; an infinite. of satellites, in the universe.. to space,. countless. entities,. Thus we can. of suns, an infinite. worlds; an infinite. is. Ego.. In fact the Universal Ego. made up of a countless number or ways.. basis of all life. one, the Universal. infinite, for the universe is infinite. both in duration and extent.. finite in certain. The. one.. is. basis of all that exists. For. there can be. no. and the same law that peoples one portion with. numbers of heavenly. bodies,. must operate. to pro-. duce them everywhere.. The Ancient Magi. adopted, as their representation of. infinity, a circle; for the very significant reason that a circle. has no beginning or end and thus. fulfills. two of the con-.

(26) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 22 ditions.. infinite. They reasoned that the number one followed by an. number. of circles would be a. symbolical and. fit. mathematical representation of the Infinite One.. KUMBER OF THE. INFINITE.. 100000000,000000 + CO Later discoveries have proved that this. a wise thought. is. and leads to many wonderful demonstrations of truth.. THE DIVINE OR SOUL NUMBER SEVEN. The number. 7 represents the soul in nature,. becomes the center of. We. all. the sacred. find. religious systems. number interwoven. known on our planet, and. and woof of Creation seem to. The. sacred. known. number. and therefore. symbolic numbers, so to speak.. bristle. of the Magi,. into all the. the very warp. with sevens.. and one that has been. in our symbolism as the strangest of. all, is. 14 2857. Composed. this. of twice 7: 4 times 7: 8 times 7 with the. Ego. added to the last figure. It. and. is. is. a wonderful. number, in a hundred. used in our temple work a great deal.. some of the strange properties. in. various. different. We. ways. shall give. parts. of this. book. It is. evolved by dividing the. Soul number. Keep up the. 7.. get nothing but the sacred. The wonders. number. of the Infinite by the. division to all eternity. and you. number 142857 over and. are best illustrated. over.. however with the emblems. of the test book, as the reader will see further along.. The number. 7. is. the center of each suit of the test book,. as can be best exemplified. by the following..

(27) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 23. ILLUSTRATION IN SUIT OF HEARTS.. o. __,. V 6 The mystic number can be represented in the emblems krjowledge as follows:. «. Change any card from right product by some number.. V V to left. of. V and you get a true.

(28) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 24. Change the Ace of Clubs the product of the sacred left. to the other end. number by. and you have the product by. 3.. and you have. Place the 7 to the. 5.. Suppose you wish to multiply the sacred number by 15, Set. down. Take 7. the. is. 142857. 714285. to begin, thus. Add which. number. together. 2142855. 15 times the number.. But you could have taken 2 from the right hand and by placing. same. it. at the left. figure. you would have obtained the. result.. Multiply the sacred number by 7 and you obtain a product all in nines.. THE OCCULT PROPERTIES OF THE NO.. The number nine. is. 9.. the representative of another phase of. symbolism representing the duality of the physical, plus the deific seven.. we find in tarotology a wonderful blending of two numbers in harmonious relations in thou-. Therefore these. sands of ways.. So much has been written concerning the mystic qualities of the. number. the subject at. nine, that. much. it. will. be unnecessary to go into. length in this work.. All products of. nine and sums of products as well as products of sums have. an. N**^ root of nine.. Many of a. occult demonstrations have been given by. means. knowledge of the properties of this mystic nine.. Take any number, large or small, and place with sal of itself. it. a rever-. and subtract one number from the other and the.

(29) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. difEerence will always reduce to nine,. ple of that. and. is. 25. always a multi-. number.. Example— 356781 Reversed— 187653 Difference=169128=N 9 Take any numljer and subtract from digits. it. the. sum. and the difference always has an N*^ root. THE MYSTIC STAR TAROT.. of its. —nine.. own.

(30) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 26. One of the most wonderful combinations. of the 7 and 9. properties. is. found in the Star Tarot of the Ancient Magi.. This Star. is. composed of 2 equilateral. and. one. representing. light,. one dark. triangles,. Darkness. and. Light. astronomy or the body and soul or physical and. of. spiritual. in nature.. Each. from. triangle represents 3. its. geometrical quality.. United by multiplication, 3 times 3 or. Magic Square. in the center. is. 9.. The. tarot, or. a 3 times 3 tarot with niiie as. central figure.. its. Upon each pomt. of the star. is. seen an. emblem card from the. Mystic Test Book, which taken by spot values represents the. number 142857. sacred. in regular order as the earth. moves. about the sun. The. spot values of any two opposite. gether produce. The Quarter. 9,. emblems added. to-. the Central Card spot value.. values added in the same. manner make. 5,. or. the 9 minus the quadrature or 4 in the square.. The Solar which. The and of. will be. values and spirit values have like properties. taken up. later.. writer has spent days in study of this Mystic Chart. still. finds. new wonders upon. The combinations. it.. show the product. We. of a master mind.. shall again produce. it. and perhaps a third time to and the. nearly every examination. of 7 and 9 are truly wonderful, and. under the head of tarotology illustrate the spirit of. numbers. spirit of potentials in medicine.. All this leads us to an intelligent consideration of the true. nature and meaning of the symbolism used in the test book.. We. find. that. it. consists. of a union. of the symbols. of.

(31) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. time, of numbers, of trical. human. 27. relations, of spirituality,. forms and astronomy,. all. geome-. within a small compact. space without words to be misconstrued, misunderstood or mistranslated.. We its. find that everything about these mystic. particular. meaning even. to the forni in. emblems has. which the spots. are arranged.. ASTRONOMICAL AERANGEMENT.. The 52 emblems. or pages represent the 52 Aveeks in a. year.. The 12 court emblems The 13. represent the 12. months. in a year.. cards in each suit represent the sun and the 12. signs of the Zodiac..

(32) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 28. The four. suits represent the 4 seasons.. Chart showing the emblems arranged to. the. illustrate. above arrangement will be found on preceding page.. In the spring-. In the spring of the year the birds mate. time of. or the first quarter, love. life. is. The heart was. therefore chosen as the. quarter and the. first. The next. clover leaf of. of the. first. season.. stage of. life is. represented by the trefoil or. Knowledge. summer.. summer. tained in the. the master passion.. emblem. of. life,. and. best gained. is. re-. the second period.. Therefore the shamrock or " club," became the emblem of. knowledge, intelligence, heat, argument, or even quarrels and. law suits under some planets.. The. season,. third. diamond,. autumn,. representative of. man's. life is. In the. fall. has. for its. wealth.. the one in which he. is. The. emblem. the. third period of. best able to gain wealth.. of the year the crops are sold and the wealth of. the harvest realized.. Winter or the fourth quarter of the Zodiac, resented by. the spade. or acorn.. By. is. rep-. and yet. a strange. natural transformation, the acorn, which represented the. symbolism of the death and burial of the physical form was. changed among some nations to the spade which represented the same thing.. sends forth a time.. So. it. But the. acorn,. life principle. when. planted in the. which becomes a new. soil,. tree in. had a deeper signification than the spade, which. symbolizes death without resurrection.. But the spade being an instrument. of labor,. it. becomes. a symbol of labor and death combined.. In addition to the quadratic division of the. test. book.

(33) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. there. is. a two-fold. becoming black and. The. tronomically. applied to. man.. 7 planets under. 29. dark and light, finally These symbolize night and day as-. division into red.. darkness. and light. The 52 emblems being. of. life. etc.,. as. multiplied by the. which they rule in succession, make the. days in the year, less. There being no ruling card. one.. for the 31st of December.. The Ancient. therefore used the 365th day of the year as a. holiday, or festival day, doing. A. no work upon that day.. very few years ago quite a radical change was made. in the style of the Court Cards. making them. " double headers.". by the manufacturers, by Before this the Kings and. Knaves had legs and feet showing below But the mystic emblems were preserved. their Court robes. as far as possible. and yet appear as of yore.. The "winged globe" with mercury,. is. its. seven balls, emblem of. yet borne by the king of wisdom, and each of his. brothers bear secret. emblems that have survived the changes. of centuries.. Their hair and beards yet curl as in the olden time. as. they hold up the sword of justice or the battle axe of power.. The Queens look from the same Egyptian. eyes,. wear. the same garb, and hold modestly in their hand the secret lotus flower of innocence. and. virtue..

(34) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 30. The good and laid aside. her. industrious queen of spades has not even. emblem. of labor, in all the ages past.. i And. our good friends,. called. "Jacks" by some, em-. blematic of the younger and unmarried portion of the male persuasion,. still. bear their. emblems.. little. its. They. meaning.. young and two upon. mystic leaf. still. wear the curled. older, the difference. locks.. Two. being. can usually be seen. their faces.. They were. originally honest. men. Koyal Couple, the accceptance of. And Knaves. friends,. them. modern. times, by. into "Knaves.". some of you may. that these characteristics,. none other in. ask,. why. it. is. appertaining to this book and. existence,. everything. not. the engravers their original. but, being next the. they remain to this day.. Now, good. world where. all,. bribes, in. those in like position, transformed. to. A. seen in the hand of one; but few persons could guess. is. else. have has. been. preserved. changed.. Why. in. a. have. and printers changed them entirely out of. form. as they. have everything else?.

(35) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. Why. 31. have they kept them confined to the same number,. 52, as of yore?. There could have been no law to compel this wonderful thing.. Why of. is. cards,. it. then,. that, as. one authority. the same. substantially. as. "a pack. states,. those in. now,. use. known to be over a thousand years old, is in existence." The only anathema ever pronounced against those who should change, by taking away or adding to this book, was. promulgated only to the members of the order and has come. down the. to us only as an attachment, fastened. mystic book. of Revelations, one. upon the end of. of the. few books. written by " inspiration " in the entire Bible.. That could have possessed no protected that ancient. terrors, for it has not. work from thousands. even. of changes,. interpolations and errors.. Reader, you this:. may. The answer. well ask these questions.. Manufacturers, interested church. men and. is. inventors. have attempted time and time again to change the figures, the emblems, the faces, and even the. number. of cards in this. During and after the war of the Rebellion a heavy. book.. tax was placed upon cards containing 52 emblems to th© pack, or having the well. known emblems,. hearts,. clubs,. diamonds and spades upon them.. emblems. Manufacturers attempted. to. change. the. war emblems,. as. crossed. swords,. certain etc; the. One. such. Court cards were changed to high. to. cannons,. army. oflScers.. ambitious inventor had beautifully engraved modern. kings and queens upon his. make. of cards. herself appearing as the queen of hearts.. Queen Victoria.

(36) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 32. But. Fortunes were squandered to no purpose.. all in vain.. The people. ivould not have them at anij price.. Soldiers. would. "hang on" to the old, well worn and greasy "test book," and when that could no longer be used, would pay a dollar for a new one, while the gaudy new style cards were cast contemptuously into the ditch by the road-side.. These changes have been attempted in other countries. In Italy and several other Catholic countries, interested parties have. they. call. thought to do away with this. the. picture. "devil's. book,". little. book, which. by introducing a. highly colored lot of cards with cups and virgins and bells. and other devices upon the. But you cannot get even. faces.. an Irishman to use them, and in spite of extensive advertising they have fallen. flat.. In the meantime, the manufacturers of the genuine old magic book, have grown wealthy and in. 100 gross. sell at. present only. lots, to dealers.. They change the backs over and over figure or design.. But the. faces. to every imaginable. must remain the same, or. they are " no go," as one manufacturer quaintly remarks.. There the. is. no question, whatever,. in. my. mind, but that. magic and mystic symbolism attached. nected with the pages of this book, the occult means of preserving. it. to,. and con-. has been the means,. intact as shown.. Underneath the physical senses of mankind, there psychic recognition of the hidden things in nature.. who think but. very. little. is. a. Those. of such matters, apparently, really. recognize the principles of law and the manifestations of the " soul. in. things,". Hard-headed business men,. spiritual development,. that. can. be discerned,. with. no. recognize.

(37) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. the reign of law, and notice what If "luck," so-called,. bad.. is. 33. called " luck ". was not a. state. good and. brought about. through regularly acting laws, there could be no conInstead of a man's bad luck pursuing him. stancy to.it.. hours, days or weeks at a time, he should be just as likely to. have splendid luck one minute after the worst kind.. Although everything in nature exemplifies the law, there. is. no other thing that. illustrates it to. such a nicety as. does our Magic Test Book. " Gypsies," those lineal descendants of Egyptian races of. olden time, recognize. human. readers". of. through. natural. work. They have the knowledge. and intuitive. Nearly any old card player will. Not one During. as "card. power.. But an. of the most expert gypsy in that line.. of "runs of. perience. are noted. mystic of the order of the Magi can discount. educated the. destiny.. descent. and. fact. this. luck" with in. fifty,. tell. you wonderful. stories. cards.. who has had any amount. of ex-. with them, will deny the mysterious properties.. my. two years experience in the Temple work I. have learned that the only persons who do not understand these occult properties, to. some. extent, even before en-. tering the house of Libra, are those. who never handled know the names of. the cards in their lives and do not even the emblems.. Many. such persons quickly discern the. occult powers, however,. whan opportunity. offers..

(38) CHAPTER. An WHAT. IS. III.. Measure^. ^strofiottitcar CHANCE?. THE. ". JOKER. AND. ". THE. VALUE.. ITS. SOLAR YEAR.. HANCE. is. defined as. accident, or. pen without assignable cause." of years. men supposed. " to. hap-. For thousands. that the elements com-. bined in chance proportions, and they never. dreamed that chemistry was an exact. The. stars of. heaven were supposed to move. about or stand. But at. it is. least. know. A. now known in. science.. still. (?) as " chance " directed.. that no such thing exists as chance,. regard to the majority of things, and. that nothing comes. by chance.. true mystic recognizes this at a glance.. are not mystics have. we. no use. Those who. for this book, or the " re-. ligion of the stars.". THE JESTER OR JOKER.. A. strange fact. has been. found out. by the mystic. brotherhood within a few months regarding the " Joker," as. it is. called..

(39) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. A few years ago some. unknown genius invented. evidently. object. the. The. games.. first. made. it. adding. of. interest. inventor placed. emblems, hearts, clubs, card and. 35. all. to. it. with. certain. the four quarter. diamonds and spades upon the. a universal. THE KING. trump. S. card.. JESTER.. It really " took " but little with the general public,. usually thrown away.. is. will. be. all. right, as. and queens. to. In serious. presence in a test book. and render an emblem. Emblematically speaking,. reading null and void. to. Its. calculation. invalidate every. it. and. it. seems. was the custom of ancient kings. keep a. jester.. aflPairs. this joker. counted as nothing, and. emblem it counted But the brotherhidden meaning to this court fool,. strange to say, as an astronomical. the same.. His. hood begins. to see a. after all the ". He. solar value being zero.. throwing out " he has been subjected. to.. represents the /owr quarters by virtue of his four suits.

(40) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 36. and the center or place of kings by his court value,. making what. is. resents five quarters, in. number symbolism.. such should be a. If. This really rep-. called the five points.. sent the entire. fact, the test. book would. repre-. motion of the earth about the sun, or. the astronomical year, 52 weeks, plus one and one-fourth. Then from another. days.. standpoint, which seems to. we have the reckoning. bear out the view already taken, the spot values of. all. The four Kings 4x18 " " Queens 4x12 ". ". ". ". ". -. Tens 4x10. -. -. -. 32 other spot cards. The Joker. -. -. -. -. -. = =. 40 36. =144. -. = H. -. -. 52. =48 =44. -. -. -. Nines 4x9. =. .. .. -. Knaves 4x11. ". of. the cards as follows:. =3651. Total. Exactly the days in a solar year. If. this. Kepler, ". Again,. is it. " chance ". remarked by the immortal. as. comes so near a law. we have the. as to set. one thinking.". rulings of each card under each of the. planets; 7 times 52, plus 5 quarters. making up the year. complete.. We. have now considered. the various. properties. of. the test book, and before proceeding to deeper studies will. simply explain that the word " measure, weigh and. test,". means. to. prove,. try.. All dictionaries agree in saying that the word "test". comes from the root observe. how. " taste,". and the reader. is. requested to. occultly the writer of Revelations brings.

(41) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 37. alluded to the " little. out the fact that he book " when he speaks of the " taste " being " sweet as honey.". Looked at from the ordinary point of view, it is absurd to speak of " tasting " a book, but when we understand that. the. ". it,. devoured ". Mystic Brother. as so. many. see the very beautiful. " tested ". it. when he we. others have done since then,. manner. in. which he concealed his. language.. The Bible. is. full. of. can only be read by the. The word root,. these sealed. messages, which. initiated.. " testament ". was taken from. this. and the Christian regards his new testament. same. as a tes-. ter of the truth.. Candid reader, which book has the best right to the name ? In. my humble. opinion the answer. is. an easy one. to give.. ASTRAL NUMBERS OF THINGS.. Everything that. exists, large or small, possesses a. num-. ber that exactly gives a mathematical expression of the. thing. itself.. If the constitution of the is. thing. is. complex, the number. complex. If. it. be simple in constitution, the astral number. is. simple.. AS AN ILLUSTRATION. 1030 Oxygen has for its number Hydrogen has for its number 212 1969 Nitrogen has for its number 1050 Carbon has .for its number These numbers are nearly simples, except that the combining force numbers are included.. Water. is. a. compound. of. hydrogen 2 equations, oxygen.

(42) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 38. one.. Its. number. is. This. is. constituents.. 1010, being less even than one of. its. caused through the suppression of. the combining force numbers.. Of. course, a general treatment of this branch of the. subject. is. out of place here, as. it. to treat astro-chemistry alone, as. will require a large. book. requires.. it. Not only physical things have these numbers, but abstracts, such as certain dates or periods of time have their expressions in. numbers.. Thus we have the numbers, and the. nativity numbers, the environment. astral. numbers. of persons.. These numbers are useful in many mathematical. cal-. culations in the occult line.. The one,. writer's nativity. by the way,. number. 644699; a very peculiar. is. as will be seen. upon. close examination.. THE SPIRIT OF NUMBERS. Every number, however. large,. has. its spirit. root, which brings the expression of the. tables. within. bounds,. certain. the. number down. powers of expression. to in. and books.. If the. number. of the physical is small, the spirit. much larger than the number. The spirit numbers may be taken on consist of. several. figures,. Brotherhood of Magic the. or occult. number. The. 9,. is. but. high scale and so. the one. used. the one found by. called the N*^ root. spirit root of a. a. number. may be. by the. means of. by some. is. equal to the N*^ root. of one-ninth of the number, plus ten times the enumer-. ator of of the. any fraction that may. number by. nine.. arise. from the division.

(43) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 39. To obtain this spirit by an easy method, simply divide the number by nine, reduce the quotient to the N*^ root and place the remainder,. What. Example.. Found. is. if. any, to the left of. the spirit root of 1844?. it.. Ans. 86.. 9)1844(204=6. as follows:. 18. 36 86. The N**! root is found by adding the figures composing a number together, continuously until but one figure remains.. The N*^. has by. root. work. is. AND IfUMBERS OF THE MYSTIC EMBLEMS.. Like everything. number,. its spirit. only this,. else the ". root. but each. and. which. is. constant, like. solar value;. number so. values, spirits. earth changes. environment number. its. individual. number,. solar value. person.. the spirit. is. a. But. constant. all. all. other. the time as the. its polarity.. values from day to day, from hour. from minute. to minute,. and one value changes. five seconds.. THE EMBLEM VALUE OF CARDS.. Hearts=0. its. Not. or root of a card is obtained from the. and numbers change. Emblems change to hour,. Mystic Test Book " has. Each card has its the astral number of a. and environment.. spirit. its. card has. spirit. every. qualities,. illustrate further, before thi?. ended.. SPIRITS. The. many wonderful. itself. which I may speak of and. Clubs=13. Diamonds=26. Spades=39..

(44) ". THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. 40. " suit values.". These values are called. The. "quarter values " of the. same. are:. 1:2:3:4. The "spot. the numbers of. valyies" are. the spots on. each card. But, Knaves count as 11, Queens as 12 and Kings as 13.. These spot values added together for the whole. book^364.. This. is. equal to. the. cards. in. test. the book. multiplied by the 7 planets.. 52=364.. 7 times. Add. the "Joker " or " Jester " which. represents the four quarters and the sun, and. and we get 365^, the days a remarkable fact that on the 31st. to five-fourths, It is. Jester rules supreme, even the ". bow. is. equal. in a year. of. Members. December the of the Court. to him.. When we the same. ". take out 52 weeks from our year,. we have. day " left on our hands.. THE SOLAR VALUE OF THE CARDS is. found by adding the spot value to the suit value.. The. spirit. root. of this solar value. is. the "spirit of. the emblem.". TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE FOLLOWING CARDS: r. V. 0^0 Spot value. 5. Suit value Solar value Spirit value. O. 8. 12. 10. 26. 13. 39. 49 45. 5. 34. 25. 50. 73. 72. 4 26 30 33.

(45) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Observe how very as. values,. different the spirits are from the other. have some strange facts. I. 41. present. to. in. relation to this later on.. SYMBOLISM OF THE. Now, each emblem. SUITS.. in the Mystic Test. nature, or characteristic,. Book has. a. corresponding to one of the. planets in both the suit and spots.. Venus and Mercury rule hearts. Mars and Earth rule clubs. Jupiter and Neptune rule diamonds.. Saturn and Uranus rule spades.. But these couplets. of planets. do not give the same. characteristic to the same emblem.. While Yenus and. love.. Mars. rules an. Mercury. rules. rules. emblem from it. a point of friendship. from a point of passion.. clubs mainly from the point of lawsuits,. quarrels and heat; while Terra rules in clubs from the. standpoint of knowledge. Jupiter cards, diamonds, indicate wealth.. Neptune. cards, diamonds, indicate. commerce.. Saturn cards, spades, from a standpoint of death.. Uranus. cards, spades,. from. a point of labor.. GEOMETKICAL SYMBOLISM.. We or spot. We. have. briefly. glanced at the symbolism of the. suits,. emblems and the numbers in the foregoing remarks.. will. now. consider. the occult. meanings of the. geometrical form of the single tcards and co-ordinates.. The. co-ordinate of any card in. taining an equal in. sijirit,. is. number. one having a. of spots.. spot value. The. is. one con-. co-ordinate card. spirit value equal to the solar.

(46) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 42. value. of the. other.. The following couplets. are co-ordi-. nate in spirit and solar values. Solar value card leading in each couple.. 4. a* -1. ,. The in. two being double. first. Book.. Test. the. common. :. V. 4 4 4^4 4 4 t co-ordinates, the. Co-ordinates in spirit. only such. and. suit are. the second couplet being an example.. ILLUSTRATION OF GEOMETEIC SYMBOLISM.. D D O o o o « » » « » D D O o o o « » » Trouble. Change. Emblems of Monotomj. This row of cards represent a personal " path of life.". By. laying out the actual emblems from the Test. Book. as. represented here, one can observe the symbolism to better. advantage.. The. sixes. show a. life,. for a time,. moving. with nothing out of the usual routine.. in straight lines,. But. at the fourth. card an obstacle comes in the way, trouble comes.. shows a change, as lines. it. change in one's. The. five. represents a cross, X, in one's path; the life. and a journey perhaps removes the. person from the preceding monotony.. These are the general characteristics of those cards, the variations. coming from the planets they rule under. at the. time. The twos. indicate unions or Joinings; bargains between. two persons.. Co-partnership. person to person.. and. letters. passing. from.

(47) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 43. Threes indicate indecision, or a place where two ways open before one,. as. if. the spot in the center was the person. ILLUSTRATION OF UNIONS AND INDECISIONS.. «. 9 6 6 ,. and the other spots the two ways leading. in. two. directions.. POWER, DEVELOPEMENT AND SUCCESS.. V 6^6. 0^0. 0^0. This entire row represents symmetrical fullness or rounding out, just as the spots are arranged on the emblems.. The. eights indicate. power. to. overcome obstacles, spiritual. advancement and numbers of persons,. congregations or. gatherings of people.. The tens represent. success, as if one stood in the open. space between the spots, surrounded with success upon. all. sides.. The geometrical form on the nines. is. a representation of a. path with a disappointing obstacle in the center.. from either end and. it. bars your progress.. Approach. You. are dis-. appointed and turned back.. The seven. is. a trouble, from one ivmj only.. Approach. it. from another direction and trouble disappears.. By. these few illustrations,. studied. which should be carefully. by the student of card delineation, we have shown. that the geometrical forms have a. meaning. of their own..

(48) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 44. THE COURT OF DISAPPOIJS'TMENT AND TROUBLE.. 9. 4. 4k. 0^0. Some. how The. 6 ^. of our students have been at a loss to understand. could be, that seven, a sacred. it. spirit,. 6"6. ). A. 9l. should. of each other.. are, as. Sevens do not. Some. but mateuial. spiritual. The explanation. indicate trouble.. and material. spiritual. number representing is. this:. one might say, antipodes. indicate. trouble,. spiritual. of the most advanced. persons, in a. way, have the most trouble from material sur-. roundings and environments, being antagonistic to their natures.. This. my own. is. a natural law,. and. this world's goods, they. had better. can advise. all,. let their spiritual. A. remain undeveloped and dwarfed. his treasure in. He. I. from. experience, that, if they wish to become rich in. " mystic ". up. heaven and not upon earth.. in coin that can be taken out with. deals. nature. lays. life beyond the grave, and he " that " shrouds have no pockets. the grander. THE TEST BOOK IN. ITS. knows. RELATION'S TO TIME. him. into. full well. AND MAGNETIC. FORCES.. The. first. form. of the Test. Book. is. known. as the. "solar".

(49) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 45. book or the natural order book.. In. this. book each emblem. occupies a place corresponding to. its. own. value.. TO FOKM A NATURAL TEST BOOK.. up from ace to. Pile the first quarter cards, hearts, face. king.. Do. the same with the 2nd, 3rd. emblems, ending with king of spades.. now. and 4th quarter. The emblems. are. in the natural order according to the Zodiac.. RULING EMBLEMS.. shuffled,. mixed or. how much. or by. Avhom. cut, there are seven cards that rule. under. In every pack of cards, no matter. These rulers change in accordance with. the seven planets.. the occult principles of time and the magnetism of the. person or persons handling them.. There. are. ways. several. of. finding. these. ruling. emblems by mathematical process and psychic powers, but the most ready means. is. them by the following easy. to find. mechanical process.. When. the book. is. fully prepared by. begin at the top of the book, which cards and deal them. each. pile as. you. Mer.. Ven.. 9. 9 9. a. 6 6. 2.7 The. go.. into. Begin. Mars. 2. is. any process required, alwaijs the hack of the. 7 piles one by one, finishing at. Mercury.. Jup.. 3. figures under each card. 7. show how many cards. are. to be placed in that pile.. The. cards given are the rulers in a natural order, or solar.

(50) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 46. The. book.. cards on. top of each. represented as. pile are. turned over face up.. Lay pile. each ruling card to the right of the. off. on top of. it. and. pile. them. pile; place. on Neptune. all. the. pile in. regular order from Uranus to Mercury.. Now vrhere,. quadrate the book as per instructions given else-. and. many. as. find that unless the. times as you please, and you will. book. shuffled. is. or cut, these rulers. always come under the seven planets when spread again.. Not always. By. same planets, but they are. the. all there.. an examination of the cards in each. pile. you. will find. that every card, other than these 7 rulers, have been scattered, to the " four. winds of heaven," symbolically speaking, by. the quadration. rules. Make. 2 quadrates and each of these rulers. under same planet. By keeping up. as in a solar book.. the quadrating until you have covered the. degree in one quarter of the Zodiac, that will find every. So. far,. emblem. in. its. is. 90 quadrates, you. original solar place.. we have only the results of pure mathematical moment we introduce persona/ magyietism. principles; but the. and the actions of individuals under the ing at the time, we have. astral forces prevail-. new elements which must be taken. into consideration.. Let a person ^'cut" the Test Book, which taking a portion of the book. upon the. off. from the. emblems in the ruling. line,. performed by. top, placing it. table and placing the remaining part. change takes place along the whole of. is. upon. it,. and a. with a new set. places.. Let a person shuffle or mix the cards up for a period of 60 seconds and the place of every. emblem corresponds. to his.

(51) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. personal magnetism.. 47. Let liim cut the book so prepared,. 8 times in succession, with just 20 seconds interval between,. and the ruling places are occupied by the cards ruling. at the. time, under the seven planets.. Now, quadrate the book and lay it out in the grand spread and every card in the Test Book comes under the planet where. it. rules. with. person. that. the. at. time,. present or future, according to whether the planetary. represented by. The. it is. at. maximum, waxing from time. from. my own. magnetism;. by one person, of. as. book are. illustra-. and. cuts, in. shuffles. They. regular order on selected minutes.. efiEect. or waning.. lay outs or " grand spreads " in this. tions of actual quadrates. past,. are nearly. necessary to have a set. it is. at least 52 lay outs in order to. all all. make. a. study of the subject.. At. first. sight any lay out seems to have. no particular plan. But the more. or form, illustrating the action of fixed laws.. you study these lay outs the greater an. at the evidences of. occult force. Examine the spreads. in. will. your wonder be. back of the emblems.. book and compare them. this. one by one, and you will soon begin to observe the peculiar. movements of. in spirit. Then spread. certain ruling cards of co-ordinate values. and solar values, shuffle a it. as. book,. as well as spots.. cut. it. hereinafter taught. The. and. observe. light. the couplets of co-ordinating emblems,. will. soon begin to see that there. make. same. and dark shades in your. life,. cards " that can and does. the. it,. Notice the peculiar group-. evidences of law with yourself.. ing of the colors.. instructed, quadrate. as. itself. is. et.c, etc.. You. a "spirit behind the. manifest..

(52) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 48. The quadrations used at. certain. as illustrations in this. hours, minutes and. selected. work. are. made. seconds and then. assorted according to the magnetic effects.. No. other person would produce spreads exactly like these,. but the general. effect is the. same and from these spreads. calculations and prognostications can be. made. for any person. or persons.. One spread. given for the culmination of each minute,. is. with the sun card progressing according to the solar values.. The following. plate. shows the arrangement of a grand. spread with particular reference to the planetary rulings and the lines denoting the three periods of time, past, present and future.. part. The two perpendicular. of the. third. and part of each. effect. The. past.. line to the right. in the present effect,. upon the right and. lines. denoting the. and. left of it. of the present aspect. This. belongs. which covers a few days of time, or the. upon the person.. The rows. row. refer to the. of hearts and clubs, and part of the diamond future.. center line. layout. arranged to show the. is. not. first. a. quadrate,. being. simply. 7 spot value cards under the. planets of same number, in order to familiarise the student. with the number and rotation of the planets.. Upon. the. right the cards are partly arranged in a form to indicate the. planets they each rule under the strongest. are under Jupiter denoting. power and. Thus the kings. rule.. Tens under Uranus denoting success.. Nines under Saturn. indicating disappointment.. Queens under Venus the female planet and ruler of love.. Of course. view only.. this. is. all. from a symbolical point of.

(53) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. •. ••*. 49. PRESENT.. •. •••. FUTURE. >. a. 3 O. 9. 111. :t. 9 w. 4 Ul. >. /^. < 2. 6 9 6 6 C?. ^. 9. a:. u 1-. ^. oc. D f-. <. U3. Z ce. 3. 7. 3 H a z. 6 6 9 9 9 6 6 [9 9 6 ^ Ci 6 9 9 .9 6 6 6 Ci. PLANETARY, LIFE AND TIME LINES OF GRAND SPREAD. Perpendicular rows are life lines; horizontal, planet a r if ; top line, sun cards; the middle one being the solar time card..

(54) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 50. The student this. advised though,. is. to. make. a study. of. become perfectly familiar with the. plate in order to. The. planetary lines and other items mentioned.. suits. upon. the right indicate the characteristic suits of the planets at the. other end of the horizontal lines, an explanation. of which has been heretofore given.. DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE TEST BOOK.. The person who The one who. C,. way most natural a watch. 2nd.. shuffles. and. will call B. cards, in. B. any. holding. which should be started. of one minute. cuts. it. off. the. will call. if possible.. performed by taking. them upon. we. to him, for just one minute;. At the end. sun. we. and mixes the. and keeping the time,. on an even minute. the. to give the reading. is. C thoroughly. 1st.. to receive the reading. is. cloth. once. C places the book upon. immediately.. The cut. is. a portion of the emblems, laying. and placing. the. balance. of the. book thereon. 3rd.. At. just 20 seconds later. again, which results.. and. C. is. directed by. must be done exactly on time. At the end of 20 seconds more C. last time.. The book. is. now. B. to cut. to secure correct. cuts for the third. ready for. THE PLANETARY CUTTING. Although a reading can be given upon an ordinary experts. always. obtainable.. use. When. a. Zodiac table cloth,. the Zodiac. is. table,. when one. is. not used, the piles of cards. are laid about the table in as near a circle about the central pile as is convenient.. 4th. pile. C. cuts a few cards from the top of the center or sun. and places them in the house of the Zodiac corresponding.

(55) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. to his. month. of birth.. no Zodiac. If. is. 51. used. C must. fix. a point on the table as his birth month. 5th.. He. then cuts. any house he 6th.. C. feels. off. some more cards and places them in. impressed to put them. in.. repeats this operation until he has 7 piles around. the circle, the last pile consuming the last of the sun cards.. sun. If the cards in the. are completed,. in the circle to. run out before the seven. pile. C must cut some off from make up the number.. piles. the pile already. ^%* /v/^\ \. ^^. PI. jvlV^;^>^. ^. THE ZODIAC TABLE CLOTH USED IN HEADINGS. There must always be a distinct pile of two or more cards. for each of the seven planets, or the results are. DEAWING THE RULING EMBLEMS. 7th.. C must now begin. loorthless.. MARRIED MALES.. at the pile of cards nearest to. Aries, or the first pile to the right of the lower Celestial. Meridian, select one card from the. upon a paper or upon the sun.. tablet. He. and. pile,. make a. place the. card. record of face. it. down. then passes on in the direction the.

(56) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 52. months run and does the same until. for each pile in succession,. he has seven cards piled upon the sun.. 8th.. If the person. is. unmarried, he must begin at exactly. the opposite polarity, or the house of Libra, September, and. proceed as directed in section. 7.. EXCEPTIONS TO THIS ORDER. Females,. draw. if single,. should begin at Virgo, or August, and. in retrograde to the months.. Married females should. begin at Pisces, February, and draw in retrograde order, but in all. section. other respects in the same. manner. as set forth in. 7.. CUT SHOWING ZODIAC HOUSES AND MONTHS, WITH PILE OF. CARDS AS PLACED..

(57) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. 9tli.. start. Ill. case the Zodiac cloth. from any. pile. personal intuition. C is. feels. is. not used, the draw must. impressed to start with.. recommend the. a sheet of white. the illustration. paper. shown. If the. strong, the results will be excellent,. but with persons of low intuitive powers phatically. 53. Zodiac,. if it is. marked. off. I. would em-. nothing more than with a pencil like '. above.. ll^^*^^ THE WALL ZODIAC OR TRESTLE-BOARD. use, the signs and figures other than. For actual. months and names of. houses. Chicago mystics use a table. may be. cloth. omitted.. the. Our. of blue broadcloth.

(58) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 54. embroidered with yellow. silk,. and most of them have in. addition, a wall trestle-board where the are kept set in the. up. to their exact place. movable planets. from day. to day, as. Grand Temple. Those who make an exact science of. this. are. art,. thus enabled to better determine the effect of a given combination of cards under certain planets, by knowing exact-. where those planets are. ly. make. this. book useful. trological. But our aim. at the time.. is. to. to others besides those versed in as-. and astronomical science; so we say that. all. these accessories, although useful to the expert, can be. dispensed with by the amateur astral card reader. PILING THE EMBLEMS. 10th.. When. the 7 planetary ruling cards are drawn and. recorded by C, as heretofore directed, he must take them. from the sun, or center, and place them upon the. pile. of cards in the house or division of the Zodiac containing. He. then. lifts. that entire pile and places. upon another, where he. feels. impressed to place. his it. hirtli. month.. continues. this. until. all. the. cards. are. in. it.. He. one. pile. (always faces down) which he places upon the sun. 11th.. book. B now. holds the time and directs. at the exact beginning of a minute. difference what minute of the hour first. this. it. makes no if. the. the. second cutting must be on an even minute. same time. piece.. seconds and minutes is. and. except that. cutting was on an even minute of time by the time piece. used,. by. it is,. to cut the. minutes or. solar time.. it. If. the watch keeps correct. makes no difference whether. hours out of. the. If the first cut, that. is. way on standard. it. or. the cut in preparing.

(59) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. the packs as directed in section. 55. an odd. started at. 2, is. minute the one mentioned herein must be on an odd one.. C cuts three times. 12th.. at. the time interval. half. just. impressed to ask. C. intervals. of ten. used before.. to shuffle the. B. If. book before. feels. this last. C. he should inform C; in which case. triple cut. seconds,. should. take the book entirely up from the table and shuffle. hand. B. until. in. it. gives the time to start the cutting as per. section eleven.. You may assure. why. not think. you that. it is.. No. care. important; but. is. corresponding to the. first. are of the greatest value,. I. matter whether you understand. The time elements and. or not.. is. it. all this. the triplex cut. or triplex deal of the quadrature. and a careful observance of these. small particulars has been the basis of the writer's success in the occult demonstrations with the Mystic Test Book.. I. have heard a careless student remark " what. 15 seconds, that they should. you know,. moved. friends,. how. far. amount this. ball. and. has,. at. the. same. ". Do. upon has. live. It. ?. has moved. twenty-five miles in its. time,. angle accordingly, relative to the sun. at the. we. 10 or. is. anything. in that little time of 15 seconds ?. ahead more than two hundred and orbit. to. changed. its. polar. Its axial rotation. equator has been about four miles during that. little. But we are now ready. insignificant quarter of a minute. for the next step.. QUADRATION OF THE TEST BOdK. 13th.. B. takes. the book. in. hand and removes the. three top cards, without disturbing the order in which. they come, and places them in the. first. or heart quarter of.

(60) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.. 56. the Zodiac.. The next three he. in the club. quarter,. places in the same. then three in. three in the spade quarter, and so on, until. cards are piled in the quarters.. manner. the diamond and all. but four. These four cards are. to. be. placed singly around the four quarters.. EXPLANATION OF THIS DEAL.. The. three cards to each quarter, at the four. first. rounds,. are emblematic of the three houses in each quarter of the. Three times four making twelve, the. Celestial Circle.. months. in a year. and the number of cards in each. When. before the last four are placed thereon. is. pile. the deal. finished there are thirteen cards in each quarter; the. thirteen being the figure of knowledge. and equal. to the. parts of the Zodiac, namely the twelve houses and the sun or center.. THE SINGLE QUADEATE. 14th.. B now piles the cards upon the first quarter,or heart. quarter, in the order of the. months and signs and makes. a. deal of one card at a time from the top of the book around. and around the Zodiac from the. first. quarter until he. Of. has thirteen cards again piled in each quarter the deal must end at the spade quarter, or in the deal in. 15th.. it. course,. shows an error. some manner.. Gather the emblems on to the heart quarter. and have them cut twice,. five. pile,. seconds apart.. LAYING THE GEAND SPEEAD. 16th.. To perform. and begins. at. this work,. B. takes the book in. hand. the top and lays off the cards one by. one, face up, beginning at the right. hand end. of the table,. one card space from that end, until he has. laid. seven.

(61) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. when he begins again. cards;. and off. starts the next. 57. at the side nearest himself. row and proceeds thus until he has. laid. 7 rows, one for each of the 7 planets.. He. then deals the next card to the right hand end. opposite the 8d perpendicular row, the next beyond. it. and. next beyond that, thus ending the spread.. row are the. ". This last short sun cards " so called, because they do not rule. under any of the planets.. On. a succeeding page will be found a quadratic grand. spread from a " natural order," or what Test Book.. Pile the cards. called Solar. is. from the ace of hearts to. the king of spades, face up, turn the book over and. quadrate. as heretofore directed.. it. in the preceding. the aspect. This. and. shown what. is. sections. it. as instructed. and the lay-out. will present. in illustration.. is. called. an. ". independent solar spread,". devoid of personal or magnetic qualities and wholly. is. But the quadrate has thrown the. arbitrary in formation.. emblems. into their respective planetary places, relative to. abstract position, in the tion. Spread. was a magnetic one.. The grand spread. is. same manner So. it is. as. worthy. now ready. if. the forma-. of study.. for. reading. and. I. and. delineating.. This. is. the most important part of. right here before. who. all,. wish to say. going any farther, that any person. expects or supposes that he or she can master the. intricate art. of. emblem. delineation in a few hours, a. few days or even in a few months, or her. mind upon. Such. is. the. may. as well change his. the subject at once.. infinite variety of the. combinations and.

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(63) THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. interpretations constantly. and. powers. intuitive. needed. are. give the correct. to. have taken the utmost pains to make them. this work, I. and. coming up, that great judgment. In the lay-outs and tables of definitions used in. meanings.. clear. 59. easily understood, but I constantly realize. letters received daily that a large. try to understand.. They seem. number. from. of people do not. to hate to think,. and therefore. ask a hundred questions regarding matters that are before. them. in print,. I. have had dozens, yes hundreds of. letters. covering page after page of manuscript, written by people. who admit. that. they have " Temple Lectures, or the. Religion of the Stars," and our O. O. M. paper, as well as bulletins,. this. ". work?" and so on ad. down and pour. sit. "Do. they ask ""are ladies admitted?". yet. you believe in evolution?" out. How came. pages. to 35. to get into. Some good. infinitum.. 25. you. souls. foolscap. of. manuscript giving their private views on such subjects as re-incarnation, evolution of the soul, astral so. on through. all. magnetism and. the subjects treated upon by. me. in. my. lectures.. Now, my feelings. dear good friends, while I appreciate the kind actuate most of you in this, I beg you to. that. remember that. I. am. a very busy. man,. my. time. is. exceed-. ingly valuable, compared with most people's, and further-. more, that your private views are useless to me.. have to say. is. or as little of like. it. it. or hate. treated, give if. in print. as it,. them. Read. you are if. it,. able.. digest It. it,. and make. What as. I. much. matters not whether you. you have any views upon the subjects. to the world in print.. I assure. you that. they are worth considering, editors will gladly print them..

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