The contents of this book are of great value in educating the human mind, especially in its appreciation of the fact, that "Order is Heaven's First Law."

This may not be realized in a single reading. We advise repeated readings of the whole book before attempting to practice its lessons. Each reading will throw a new flash of light upon minds unfamiliar with Astrology.

Superficial readers might judge the lessons herein given to be tautological, but the author deems these repetitions necessary to impress certain important facts upon the student.

Repetitions in teaching are psychologic factors. The teacher who never alludes to a matter but once would be apt to make a superficial impression.

The Wonder Wheel herein presented is an ingenious compilation of Astrologic lore, created by the Author for his own convenience, many years after he had become adept in the Science. He found that he often needed an Astrologic lay-out of the heavens before his eyes when working out his problems. In using it he soon learned that he could dispense with the mathematical sums, for, knowing the motion of the planets, (as per page 28) he could trace their position from point to point about the circle with his eye.

The Wheel reveals at a glance the Zodiacal Signs, their names, numbers, and Horoscopal correspondences; the degrees of Zodiac corresponding with yearly calendar; parts of the body and the human characters ruled by the signs, their lordships; the decanates and terms of the signs and their rulers; the clock hours of the day by which Horoscopes may be calculated; the planetary hours, and week-day rulers, aspects and angles from the several signs. Years of Life circle; differences in time at various parts of the world; the significances of houses of the Horoscope, the elemental nature of signs and houses; the localities of prominent fixed stars, etc.

The Author discovered by use of this Wheel, that it answered the purposes of a globe or a map, and by which any and every problem in Astronomy and Astrology could be more quickly approximated, than by any other inexpensive method known. He was induced by his friends to make it public, and he has done so, in various forms, so that the Wonder Wheel and his Tabula Magus, are now known in every civilized portion of the globe. They have been found to be Wonderful Demonstrators of Divine Law, in Biblical, Spiritual, Theosophic, Astrologic or other systems of Ancient or Modern lore, and whatever a person's religious faith, it may be upheld by lessons drawn from the Wonder Wheel.

Teachers, Lecturers, Writers and Students have already drawn many illustrations from it, in their particular lines of work. Even the children have found out several simple games of amusement, by use of the Wheel, with checkers, buttons or dice. It is well adapted in Kindergarten schools to various lines of attention, and all scholars may discover new truths in its use.

During our publishing of the Wonder Wheel, in the large cardboard form, an erroneous impression was abroad that it was only for the purpose of Character Readings, like Butler's Solar Biology, Eleanor Kirk's book, and Mr. Colville's work on Zodiacal influences.

If the Wonder Wheel was for no other purpose than character reading, it would have been foolish for its Author to have put so much work in the design. Since the creation of the Wonder Wheel, he has created a Wheel for character reading, to show the differences, and the simplicity of the latter. At a glance it shows us our places in the Zodiac and our Tribal Characteristics: (See Plate of Character Reader.)

Character Readings are the Basic laws of Human Life, but are not all of the basic laws. People are not satisfied with character alone. They crave more detailed knowledge, more particularly a knowledge of the times when the forces of their character are most likely to gather some worldly benefit or advantage; also a knowledge of how their own basic forces are related to the forces of others; also how the basic character will progress in life.

These differentiations are given on the wheel, and may be easily found by attending to the explanations, or the lessons. Days of the Year, Degrees of Signs, Decanates, Terms, Planetary Rulers, Elemental Qualities, Years of Life, Planetary Hours, Declinations of Sun, Movements of Planets - Each of these have significances, which by position or aspect, truly reveal the qualities and the changing conditions of every human life, be he wise, foolish, rich, poor, believer or sceptic. His name is written in the Book of Life, and that Book is the starry heavens. If a scoffer he is written there as such, and in his scoffing he is but testifying to the truths of Astrology, as may be easily read of him, from the heavens.

Everything on the wheel is arranged in the regular order and the harmony of Natural Law, all discordant parts so well balanced against each other as to form a solid wheel such as can never break.

The relative positions of the Fixed Stars are very correctly arranged about the border, showing which sign they are in line with when viewed from earth. They may be easily referred to and located in connection with any data. The days of the month in line between these stars and the centre of the wheel denote the times of the year when they will be on the meridian at noon. At the exact opposite time of the year they will be on the meridian at midnight. Hold the wheel before you at noon, or midnight, with the day of the month at the top, and it will be a picture of the circle of the heavens, with Signs and Stars, as they stand above and about you at that moment.

Note the angle from you, of any of the clock Hours, A.M. or P.M., and turn the wheel so that the date of the month will be at that angle, and you will have a map of the heavens, signs and stars, as they stand at that very hour. Any person who will learn to do this simple operation, need never bother his head about erecting Horoscopes, for he can at once, with the wheel, have the Horoscope instantly before his eyes. In the lessons are shown many other ways to arrive at results without mathematics.