About the wheel, also, Prof. Henry did not forget to take advantage of the opportunity to present the order of Decanates, and to mark the days of the week, which every 3d Decanate represents, exactly in the middle of each Sign, with the Planetary Rules marked in them.

There is much that one may learn from these Decanates, which run in the exact order of the Planetary Hours, beginning with Mars at 1st point of Aries. Going backwards in the order of the signs, beginning at 1st point of Aries, with Mars in last of Pisces, and we find the Decanates to be in the exact order of the 36 years Cycles.

At time of this writing the world is in the closing years of the Mercury cycle, which has stocked the world with inventions and elaborate schemes. In a few years we will be in the Mars cycle, which will have 36 years to run. The world-thought is gradually changing to meet the exigencies of martial impulses.

Just as we may follow the course of a ship on a marine chart, or the line of a railroad on a State map, we have only to know where a planet is on a certain day, then, knowing how fast it moves, we may easily trace it on the Wonder Wheel, and tell where it will be at any future time, or where it was at any time in the past. This is the law of reading the past and the present and the future, for as the planets in their courses, or cycles, aspect the Birth points of any individual, so will the Thoughts, the Will and the Action of that individual be for good or ill, for weal or woe, and no power on earth can prevent its being so, for "the heavens do rule."

The silent influences in the atmosphere, vibratorily regulated by the movements of the heavenly bodies, are the instruments by which God moves all things to His will. These vibrations are the Ministers of Heaven, and they come to us from Angles, (termed "Angels" in early days.) These Angles, 12 in all, form 3 crosses. In the centre of these vibrating crosses, every human being is born, as is denoted on the wheel by the photo in its centre. (See also the plate representing the law of hours.)

The characteristic features of the wheel, are the first of all considerations to be entered into, in Astrologic studies.

He who enters into the study of Astrology other than by the strait and narrow path of the Sun, is bereft of its saving influence, and is like unto a thief and a robber who entereth by the back way.

He who learneth the laws of the Sun, in all their relationships, as presented upon this wheel, knoweth then the law of all creation, which is one and the same from the molecule to the great universe itself.

As Jesus said: "He that knoweth the Son, knoweth the Father.". The Sun above our heads is the Sun of God, and it is the "Life, the Light and the Way."

The Solar laws existing between Sun and Earth are the patterns after which all other laws are made, whether they be between Earth, Moon and planets; between nation and nation, or between man and man.

The Solar law is constant, and the only constant law applicable to man. The Solar law is God's unchanging law of cause and effect. All Other laws are but the effects of the unchanging Solar laws.

The effects change according to the varied expressions of the unchanging law. Superficially-minded man is apt to draw his judgments from the ephemeral effects, than from the ever-abiding cause. The Wheel presents the unchanging laws. The movements of the changing bodies must be obtained from Almanacs or Ephemerides, but they are practically useless to one unpossessed of the basic laws as layed down on this wheel.

The Wheel and the Lessons herein teach, not how to find the mathematical places of the planets, but how to become Clairvoyant, or clear-sighted in the forming of judgment.

People who see character-reading most prominent in the wheel, are those who are more familiar with that branch than with any other. People who cannot see the Horoscopal features in the wheel are those who have learned of Horoscopes only automatically.

Neither pen, pencil, nor even Wonder Wheel are needed when we know the true laws of Nativities and Horoscopes, but the wisest of students will always have his Wonder Wheel and Tabula Magus at hand, just as he has his watch or his clock. It is easier to refer to it, than to tax the brain with problems.

Jesus wrote with his finger on the sand when sizing up the mob about him. Under the conditions about him it was more reliable than ah Astrologic problem mentally.

People in the habit of drawing Horoscopes seem lost in their conclusions without them, and yet when completed, they have before them nothing but a wheel, precisely like the Wonder Wheel, with planets inserted. It is hard for people to change from their old customs, even when the new is by far the easier way to others. This fact is but an Astrologic law. It shows us that new things are for the new generations, as Jesus said. - "New wine is apt to break old bottles." When old people denounce new things it is but an evidence that their generic mind is not able to comprehend the genius of a progressed world.