This section is from the book "Astrology In A Nutshell", by Charles Henry Webber. Also available from Amazon: Astrology In a Nutshell.
Those capable of performing one portion of these studies were found in capable of performing the other portions, hence the whole matter began to split into all sorts of specialties, just as Church Religions and the Medical Profession are split into various schools and rivalries of today. In the days of Babylonia we find that there were Astronomers, Star-gazers, Mathematicians, Monthly Prognosticators, Soothsayers, Sorcerers, Wise Men, Magicians and Chaldeans. Each and all of these came under the generic term "Astrology," but in all the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, there was but one all around Astrologer, and his name was Daniel, the recognized man of the true and the living God. Think of this, ye ministers of the gospels, and ye students of the word of God as given you through the art of printing.

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Daniel was an Astrologer, and from the word of God as written in the heav-ens, he interpreted the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, which could not be done by the star-gazers, the mathematicians, the sorcerers, the monthly prog-nosticators, the astronomers, nor any of the wise mem of that great and mighty nation.
With such evidence as this, from "holy writ,"in favor of true astrology, demonstrated by a man whose name means "God is my judge,"and the "God of the heavens,"either destroy your bibles or learn from it the dif-ference between true astrology and its various specialized branches, some of which, like modern Astronomy, are of great use to certain operations in the world, but not useful, as a guide in the moral or the ethical spheres of life.
There are lawyers and medical men of the present day delving in specialized branches of these great professions. Some are grand and worthy in their specialties, while others are but bombastic shysters and charlatans, but where do you find a good all around lawyer or a medical man who has so thoroughly mastered the fundamental, principles of his profession that he can apply them to any case which may come before him.
Daniel Webster was one. It might have been because his name was Daniel, but he ignored law-books and thumble-rules in general, and declared that "common sense"was all that a lawyer needed, aside from the formalities of the courts.
The formalities of a court is a law of convenience for the court, but is not the law of the case to be tried. Many lawyers are experts in the law formalities of the court, who are but dullards when the case in court is entrusted to them.
In like manner, there are Astronomers and mathematicians and star-gazers and monthly prognosticators, who are adepts in their own particular branches of Astrology, but when they come to a matter outside of their own thumb-rules, to be judged on the law of fundamental principles, you may easily "weigh them in the balances and find them wanting."
The American Encyclopaedic Dictionary says: "If etymology were followed, the Astrologer would be considered the equal, if not the superior, of an Astronomer."
Why is not the etymology followed?. Simply because for commercial convenience the branches of Astrology became more active in the world than pure Astrology and pure Astrology has had to suffer by reason of the charlan-try and the rivalries between the branches, to say nothing of the "pots calling the kettles black," just as the other professions have suffered by the the charlantry and rivalries in them.
What comes to the rescue of true law, true religion and true medicine? Answer, science and scientific demonstration. Astrology, pure and simple, is now coming to the front in the world, not with hackneyed, stereotyped thumb-rules copied and recopied from book to book with all their errors, by commercial bookmakers, but, by simplified and easily proven laws, which appeal readily to ordinary judgment, human reason and common sense.
The word Astronomy is in reality synonmous with the word "action," and the word astrology is synonmous with the word "judgment."
Before judgment can be rendered, some action must be taken. Before judgment can be rendered in a court some action must be taken to present the case for judgment
The final act is rendered by the judge. In all matters relative to the study of the heavens, the Astronomer stands as the lawyers stand in or out of court, while the astrologer sits as the judge upon the bench.
Where do the mathematicians come in. Why, they are the busy-bodies, the witnesses, who testify truthfully or untruthfully, for or against the case in hand. If they are truthful witnesses, working on true premises, then they are most valuable adjuncts to the case and helpful to astronomy and astrology, as a witness in a court of law, but if their premises are wrong then they are a delusion and a snare and are quite liable to injure the innocent or to cause the case to be thrown out of court.
By working on wrong premises in the past few centuries, mathematicians have been the chief cause of non-liqueting the case of Astrology in the great mental court of the world.
Classifying the parts of the heavens into Signs, Constellations, etc., or the circle of the earth into Houses or classifying the planets, as Bonifies or Maleflcs, 1st class, 2 class; classifying the points of the heavens into North, South, East, West and any other form of classifying fixed or movable objects or points in the heavens, is pure and simple Astronomy.
Star-gazing, in its highest and most improved form, is searching the heavens with telescopes. In ancient times this was done with the naked eyes, or from deep, dark holes dug in the ground.
Mathematics is the computing of the exactness of angles, or the longitudinal dimensions of the house divisions of an horoscope or by computing the exact dimensions of any other figure of the heavens, also computing the rate of motion, the distances and the aspects, orbs, etc., of the planets:
After star-gazing, the mathematics and the astronomy have been performed, then comes in the work of astrology, which reasons out, and, from experience, or from undeniable proofs of the laws of cause and effect, makes judgment as to the probable outcome of one body acting upon another body in nature, as per the testimonies or evidences given by the work of the star-gazer, the mathematician and the astronomer.
It is seldom that a true Astrologer errs in his judgment, based on the evidence, because the laws of judgment are so simple, so concise and so in-falliable. If the evidences rendered by the star-gazer, the mathematician and the astronomer is even approximately correct, the astrologer knows no such word as "failure."
Astrology comprehends all things. God is the spirit of all.
Finite minds, like the finite stomach, can only enjoy what it momentarily contains.
Lots of people are suffering from mental constipation.
Repeated doses of True Astrology is the best medicine known for mental constipation.
Some people are dealing out medicine under such names as Mental Science, Christian Science, Suggestive Therapeutics, I Am doctrine, Church-isms, Creedology, Psychic and Material ebullitions, etc.
These medical schools are merely Astrology in disguise. Not a donkey in a lion's skin, but a lion in a donkey's skin, to more easily catch the sheep, or lamb.
The lambs of the world have been on the cross long enough, through ignorance of the Higher Astrology, which contains the law of all things in its simplicity.
Come out of the donkey's skin. Come down off your mathematical perch, which is used only to confound the childish mind with superficial horary problems.
Come into the light of True Astrology and shed abroad its light
Unmask the world, and learn that those whom you thought your enemies are in reality your best friends. It was only their mask that has frightened you.
Learn the truth and fear no lion in donkey's skin, nor donkey in lion's skin.
The Wonder Wheel teaches that lion, lamb, ram, sheep or mutton, we are all members of the one great body.
The human being who despises any other human being is merely forgetful of his own manhood, by having lost himself in his own animal mask.
 
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