Astrology should be investigated because it promises to solve many human problems, collective and individual, which cannot be solved by any other known means.

Questions arise as to whether astrology in its present form of praxis, or at least in its essential possibilities, is a true scientific means of solving any problems. What reasons have we for believing in astrology? Is it not true what we read in the encyclopaedias, that astrology died with Copernicus' discovery, which established the sun as the center of our solar system? And then, supposing astrology is true, what good is it to know what "fate" has in store for us? These are the principal questions which earnest inquirers will ask.

When I became interested in the subject nearly twenty-two years ago I simply picked up the thing as I found it, looked it over, tested it by experiments and was convinced. This has probably been the method of inquiry employed by most others who have become its devotees. A direct and simple way of finding out if the pudding is eatable, but not always the most pleasant way for an epicure.

The reader will have observed how all things, big and small, throughout nature, all operate on the same principle. Life in the great cell which we call our solar system, appears to live by the same law of revolution as the blood in our bodies, and as the atoms which compose it revolve in the greater cell, the molecule, at distances apart comparatively as great as the distances of the planets from each other. Modern science tells us that the electrons which compose the atom are not matter at all, but thought waves forming angles. All this motion and revolution become vibration and as it rises on the vibratory scale it becomes one color or another, one matter or another, in harmony or discord with other matter on a different scale of vibration. It forms laws of attraction, repulsion, joy and pain. We say it is life. Science tells us there is only One Life. Will those who profess to believe, as well as those who profess to disbelieve, if such there be, that the universe is one verse please explain how the conceited little pigmy atom, man, ever got it into his head that he is un-influenced, free and independent of the laws of the great molecule of which he is a part?

A psychologist, en route, made his introductory address to 2000 people at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, San Francisco, in the spring of 1921. The doctor made many statements, mostly very good and very true. There were of course some with which the writer didn't quite agree, but which may nevertheless be true; however, there were a few statements made which positively did not match with the true statements. I have singled out one of these, the most important one, because it concerns my science. I have also singled out two of the doctors' good and true statements, also very important ones, because they are astrological maxims. I have placed them in contra-position, so that the very inconsistency of the contradiction may ignite and illumine the page:

"Astrology is not true."

"God is omnipresent." "The universe is one."

The doctor did not use the exact words, "astrology is not true," he said: "The planets have no more influence over your lives than the creases in your trousers," which voluble levity I am rendering in direct English. The doctor made the statement at his opening address, without waiting for invitation or question.

While some of us are more or less fixed in our ideas and adher firmly to the thoughts which we have become accustomed to think, there are also those of us who are changeable and readily adopt the new, which we at once embrace with vigor and enthusiasm until the next exciting idea comes along. Advocates of the new ideas belong naturally to the cardinal (active) signs. They are born with the sun, the ascendant and most planets in cardinal signs, hence they become leaders. It is therefore natural that these advocates should walk rough-shoed over other and older ideas in their struggle to gain recognition for their own. A knowledge of this principle alone would make for self-knowledge and tend to make us broader and more tolerant.

Astrology, being older than history, has suffered repeated attacks from every upspringing idea throughout the ages. It is still with us and persistently gaining new ground after each rebuff. It is consistently expected that as our solar system is entering the sign of "the Man" (the humane, broad, scientific Aquarius) that astrology shall gain universal recognition - when calm and earnest students of a dispassionate science may well think it beneath their dignity to give cognizance to flippant utterances of superficial opponents.

If "God" means anything at all in the language of a doctor of philosophy, it may well be supposed to mean the Universal Mind, the thought behind matter, or that in which and by which everything is. Being also an "image" I have a few suggestions to offer on the subject: I swing my arms around - it influences every cell in my body. I think: I shall go out for a walk - I start to move my legs and soon every cell, or minor universe of which I am the "God" are influenced by my thought in motion. Now, I am a universe, am I not? Then suppose the great Universal Mind, the all-God, moves his giant arm (if so I may express it) Jupiter to a trine aspect of collosal Sun. Has that so surely no crystallizing effect through the first breath of the new-born? A trine aspect is an angle, or distance apart, of 120 degrees. Crystallizing angles are called aspects and are based on the pyramid and the cube. They are measured upon the lines of the equator and the ecliptic. Water will crystallize perfect angles of 120 degrees, will it not? Is it so sure that a crystal formation means nothing to the myriad of lives in the little universe, the waterdrop? These queries seem to me quite related. Can intelligent people afford to scoff at the idea of planetary influences without giving it a fair test?