Astrology For All,Astrology without Calculations

Astrology is the oldest of all Sciences. We find a belief that Astrology spread throughout the whole world from Babylonia and Chaldea. It taught the people to lift their aspirations by faith, hope and reverence, through the planetary spirits to the Logos of our solar system, the One Supreme and Universe Self.

Many attempts have been made to bring the study of Astrology within the reach of all persons endowed with a thinking mind, but owing to the magnitude of the subject and the great difficulty of reducing a metaphysical science into terms of natural philosophy, the object has hitherto been only partly achieved.

When we come to consider that Astrology was the beginning of nearly all that we hold valuable in art, literature, religion and science; that the constellations were our first pictures; and that astronomy sprang from Chaldean Astrology, we may judge of its value to humanity.

An attempt has been made here to place before the world the system of Astrology. It would be useful for the scholars, intellectuals, astrologers as well as common men.

Alan Leo, born William Frederick Allan, (1860-1917) was an English astrologer, author, publisher, astrological data collector and theosophist. He is often referred to as "the father of modern astrology". His work stimulated a revival of astrology in the Western world after its decline at the end of the 17th century. Leo was a devout theosophist and he worked many of its religious concepts such as karma and reincarnation into his, astrology. He used the Theosophical Society's vast international connections to publish, translate and disseminate his work across Europe and America.

ASTROLOGY FOR ALL, the first of the "Astrology for All" Series of books, has now become a standard work.

As an introductory work to the science of Astrology the popularity of this book has been unrivalled. No calculations or mathematics of any description being necessary, the most simple-minded enquirer has been placed in a position to learn a great deal concerning a science that previously had been associated with abstruse mathematical formula, and copious rules for judgment that could only be acquired after many years of patient labour and perseverance.

The success of this work is due to its simplicity of expression and convenience of arrangement. It was written with the object of giving reliable information concerning Astrology in the initial stages of its study, and with the hope that the deeper side of its mysteries will be studied later.

The care exercised in revision and the orderly arrangement adopted in the two previous editions, have left little room for improvement in this, and the few alterations made, allow the paging for purposes of reference to remain as before. An Appendix has been added on "Astrology: Exoteric and Esoteric " (p. 290). The work following this, and originally entitled Astrology for All, Part II., contains a condensed Ephemeris of the Planets' Places for the past 60 years, and may be used in conjunction with the present work to advantage.

MANY attempts have been made to bring the study of ASTROLOGY within the reach of all persons endowed with a thinking mind, but owing to the magnitude of the subject and the great difficulty of reducing a metaphysical science into terms of natural philosophy, the object has hitherto been only partly achieved. In the present work a final attempt is made by the author to reach the multitude of earnest and thoughtful searchers after truth, whose numbers are day by day increasing more especially to reach those who wish to have some practical demonstration of the widespread belief that a wise ruler is behind all manifestation of life, guiding and influencing humanity towards a definite end, that purpose being perfection-the Millennium.

The day is past for writing a defence of Astrology, and no amount of argument will ever convince the sceptic who is either too indolent or too perverse to investigate a science which claims to explain the law that governs all things. The best test that can be applied, to this as to all other subjects where first-hand knowledge is required, is that of experience.

Reason, thought, and experience, constitute the basis upon which the system adopted in this work is built. The ripened fruit of many years' toil and practice is here offered to those who are sufficiently thirsty for the knowledge that Astrology brings to mankind, the main object of the present publication being to satisfy the demand made by growing students for more light.

ASTROLOGY is the oldest of all sciences. Its history can be traced so far into the past that it becomes a hopeless task to actually discover when and where it had its origin. From Babylonia and Chaldea we find a belief in Astrology spreading throughout the whole world. Once the religion of a great and mighty race, it taught its people to lift their aspirations by faith, hope, and reverence, through the planetary spirits to the LoGoS of our solar system, the One Supreme and Universal Self.

Since the days of happy Chaldea, whose wise priests by the expan- sion of their consciousness could reach the shining ones, the star of Astrology appears to have waned, and for the multitude to have entirely disappeared.

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