The Science of Foreknowledge by Sepharial.pdf

THE

SCIENCE

FOREKNOWLEDGE

Sepharial

Being a Compendium of Astrological Research, Philosophy, & Practice in the East

& West; Containing Material Now Otherwise Inaccessible to the Student, & the

Radix System or Method of Directing for Future Events & Tendencies as Used by

the Author & Hitherto Unpublished. Partial Contents: Astrology in Shakespeare;

The Great year; Celestial Dynamics; Neptune; New Satellite Lilith; A Third Earth-

Moon; Indian Astrology; Horoscope of Rama; Astrology of the Hebrews; Star of

Bethlehem; Measure of Life; Astrological Practice; Ptolemy’s Method; Bonatti’s

Method of Direction; Radix System; Our Solar System.

INTRODUCTION

The following pages are intended to bring some of the more recondite and

controversial aspects of the Science of Foreknowledge into discussion; and, further,

to supply a great deal of abstruse information not otherwise accessible to the student.

That there are problems yet before the student of Astrology and matters which

cannot be determined out of hand save by a direct appeal to the facts of experience,

should serve to prove that the subject treated of is not immersed in that haze of

superstition to which irresponsible writers, ignorant alike of the principles and

teachings of Astrology, have been wont to consign it. It is hoped that the large

variety of subjects dealt with in the course of this work will not obscure the main

object to which it is directed-namely, the affirmation from experience of a veritable

Science of Cosmical Interpretation, as fully deserving of study and recognition as is

the science of astronomy from which it springs. For the rest, I am content to leave

my work in the hands of those who are qualified to appreciate and to criticize it.

SEPHARIAL

London, 1918

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION………………………………………… 2

THE SCIENCE OF FOREKNOWLEDGE…………….. 3

R.A. PROCTOR ON ASTROLOGY……………………. 8

ASTROLOGY IN SHAKESPEARE………….………….12

THE GREAT YEAR………………………………………16

CELESTIAL DYNAMICS…………………………….….20

NEPTUNE………………………………………………… 23

THE NEW SATELLITE OF LILITH……………………26

A THIRD EARTH-MOON…………………………...….. 31

THE ASTROLOGY OF LILITH…………………………33

INDIAN ASTROLOGY…………………………………...37

THE EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITY…………………….45

HOROSCOPE OF RAMA……………………………….. 50

THE ASTROLOGY OF THE HEBREWS………………54

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM…………………………. 62

JOAN OF ARC…………………………………………….65

THE MEASURE OF LIFE………………………………. 69

ASTROLOGICAL PRACTICE:

PTOLEMY’S METHOD………………………………….74

BONATTI’S METHOD OF DIRECTING………………75

THE RADIX SYSTEM……………………………………77

HOROSCOPICAL ANOMALIES………………………. 83

STUDIES IN BRIEF……………………………………… 85

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM……………………………….…. 87

FINANCIAL ASTROLOGY………………………….…. 89

APPENDIX……………………………………………..…. 93

THE SCIENCE OF FOREKNOWLEDGE

The statement of Professor Sir Oliver Lodge, made before the British

Association (Mathematical Section) at Bristol some years ago-viz. “If once we grasp

the idea that the past and future may be actually existing, we can recognize that they

may have a controlling influence upon all present action”-is one worthy of

considering in its fullest significance. That the past exerts a ‘controlling influence’

on all present action is so clear as to have been commonly received into our system of

thought as a truism. It asserts the obvious, that the effect follows, and is dependent

upon, its cause. But that the unrevealed future should have a controlling influence of

a similar nature upon the thought, feeling, and volition of the moment is a novel and

daring argument to voice in the presence of a scientific body. For what is it in essence

but a statement of pre-established harmony, fore-ordination, and the inevitable, as

controlling the present towards a ‘definite and preconceived end’ by the process of an

orderly unfoldment? It postulates man as the subject of a certain destiny, and human

endeavor as the fulfilling of Fate. Not only is there the past exerted along the lines of

racial evolution, national growth, and heredity, but also a very definite and constant

pull in the direction to which, that evolution is impelled by the Divine Will as

expressed in the operations of natural law. The position taken up by the great

scientist is of immense significance to the student of astrology, in as much as it

defines the scientific attitude in regard to the common ground of astrological doctrine

and practice, which conceives the future of an individual or a race to be foreshadowed

in the horoscopical conditions of its genesis, and therefore perpetually operative from

the first moment of existence to the production of such predetermined ends.

From the belief that the future exerts an influence on present action to the

belief that the future (as actually existing with the past and present) may be capable of

direct study and cognition is a step already taken by every student of astrology, and

one that is even essayed – though somewhat timidly – by more that one accredited

exponent of scientific thought. The day will come, as surely as the rising of the sun,

when “the controlling influence” of planetary action on human destiny will be

recognized equally with the solidarity of the solar system or the attraction of

gravitation.

Sir Oliver Lodge is not alone in this conviction of the significance of an

impinging futurity, as shown by the following contribution to the subject by the Rev.

Maurice Davies, the well-known author of “Orthodox London.” It is in itself a

refutation of the common prejudice against astrology in the minds of those who are

wholly ignorant of its principles, its practice, its teachings, and its place in the scheme

of educated thought. He writes:

Among all the various forms of occultation, surely this is the one to which that

self-stultifying word ‘supernatural’ is least applicable. If the Sun and Moon sway the

tides, why should they leave man untouched?

If the testimony of language be worth anything, Greek, Latin, and English

bear evidence that the ‘moonstruck’ owe their infirmity to the evil influence of our

satellite. But it is not my present purpose to argue about theories, or refer to other

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What I have to do is to give such passages of my own personal history as

appear to establish the fact that ‘the stars in their courses’ do affect our destinies, not

only as fulfilled in the past, but as lying stored up for us in the future. I shall be

inartistic enough, then, to give an instance of this in my own experience, which is

quite as remarkable as any of which I have ever read in tale or history. Of course,

according to artistic rules, this episode ought to be reserved as a bonne-bouche until

the last, but I give it here at the outset, if only to guard against the supposition of

being ‘moonstruck’ myself. I can see no explanation of the facts short of believing

that astrology is just as much a fixed science as astronomy.

Fortunately I am able in this instance to give names in full, so that my

narrative may be checked if necessary. The astrologer who figures in this case is Mr.

T. L. Henly, a gentleman who has made it his mission in life to develop the

cultivation of flax as a home industry, and who has taken out several patents for that

fiber. But, Like the Swedish seer Swedenborg, Mr Henly combines with his practical

and material pursuit a strong taste of occultism. He is, at the time I write (November,

1896), living and working successfully, so that he can ‘witness if I lie’.”

He had been dining with me one Sunday, and went to sit ‘under me’ in the

evening at a parish church in the suburbs, where I was Sunday evening lecturer. As

we were walking to church he said, ‘I have been looking over your horoscope, and I

find there is a windfall coming to you in a month’s time’.”

I told him I was extremely glad to hear it, and naturally inquired whether he

could inform me how this particular windfall was to come. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘it would

be occasioned by a death.’ I cast about, and said there was only one person in

existence whose death would be likely to benefit me. Could he be alluding to the

unexpected death of this old lady? No, it was not a lady. It was a gentleman, whose

death would do me good! The death, he said, would be the result of an accident.

‘And, moreover,’ he added, ‘it is a death which will be talked of from one end of

England to the other.’

I quite failed to guess whom my illustrious friend or relative could be, and

concluded in my omniscience that he was talking at random. We changed the subject.

I preached my sermon, and soon forgot all about the prognostication. A month from

the date on which this prophecy had been uttered was Whit-Sunday. I was still

combining journalistic work with my clerical and scholastic duties, and just then I

used to write four leaders each week for Mr. Edward Spender, who was editor of the

National Press Agency.

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