" We must lay aside that laxy and fallacious method of censuring by the lump, and must bring things close to the test of true or false".

Burmett's theory.

" Gold, power, soft luxury, vain sports and ease, Possess the world) and have the luck to please Few study Heaven, unmindful of their state, Vein trifting man ! but this itself is false!"

MANILIUS.

The art of resolving horary questions, is founded on the sym-pathetic properties which are found to exist, more or less throughout nature It furnishes the student in Starr science, with the actual means of satisfying those doubts to which the minds of all men are subject by an apparently simple and easy, but beautiful theory. which pregnanes that the same sympathetic power which causes the iron and magnet to attract and approach each other - which causes a detached portion of earth to return towards the common centre : the waters of the ocean to approach the luminaries: the planets to revolve on etherial circles around the central sea :which entrances the needle to point towards the pole; which causes the turbulence of wine at the time of vintage - which by occult sympathy influences the no-born foetus in the womb, and produces correspondent marks' with the mother's wants or fears; the same sympathetic instinct which induces the child to approach the nipple; the mother to feel the draught flow into her breasts some seconds before the infant awakes for its destined food - which causes the husband to feel the pain of gestation alternately with his wife; which induces animals to feel the approach of changes in the atmosphere, and thus to foretel rain; which induces rats to forsake a falling house; ants to quit their nests, and remove their young before an inundation; dogs to foretel mortality by strange barkings and winnings. - The same occult influence which drives the frantic herd about the pastures; which provokes the gad-fly to vex the steed; which goads and rouses the huge ork, slumbering in the lowest gulphs of the great deep; causing him to rise and toss vast fountains to the clouds - which fetches troops of frogs from the muddy bottom of the oozy lake, and compels them to take land journeys - which causes the annual migration of birds - which leads the slow creeping snail to un-warp its uncouth body, and proudly thrust forth its long horns; which is the toscin of alarm that calls forth the sleeping beetle from its deep lurking hole - which seizes with fits of temporary madness, the owl and the raven; which affects the brains of the maniac, or which circulating through all living nature, pervading all, disquieting all, even to the minutest swarms that fall in honey dews: when the sky means to lower, this universal sympathy or instinct (for all instinct is sympathy) is neither more nor less than the secret but powerful influences of the heavenly bodies: and is the first prevailing cause of every anxious and ardent doubt to which the mind is subject, or upon which the mind dwells with eagerness, and a desire, if possible, to know the result - Nature, in this ease, will be found to accommodate herself to every emergency, and by a theme of Heaven, cast to the moment when the desire is most ardent, or when the querent feels most anxious (and irritable) on the subject. - From that position of the heavenly bodies, when judged by the rules of art, may a true answer undoubtedly be obtained; and the various contingencies, relative thereto, may also be faithfully discovered.

It is possible that the medium through which this influence operates, and which causes distant portions of matter to operate on each other, may in all probability consist of a very line elastic and subtle fluid, which emanates through infinite space, being wholly imperceptible, except by its effects; and thus apparently unaccountable, were it not attributed to celestial agency; but which, to a believer in Astrology, appears nothing more than the ordinary but unerring laws of nature. - Thus this species of divination (if any thing which has certain demonstrable rules for its basis may be so termed) notwithstanding the silly, common-place, jeering, and the foolish ridicule of self-conceited witlings, is really founded on the same immutable laws to which the universe, at large, is subject terms of Art used in Horary Questions•

In order to be perfect in this part of Judicial Astrology, it is absolutely necessary to be master of the following technical terms, which the author has rendered as concise as possible; but at the same time he has given every requisite explanation.

Application

Application is when two planets apply or go to each other's aspect, where, according as we have before described, it must be well observed, that the, light planets apply only to the more ponderous: the following are the

In practice, these degrees are said to denote the distance at which a planet may operate, from a partite aspect, before it quite loses its effects.

Direct application, is when two planets are direct, or move according to the order of the zodiacal signs, and one applies to the other. Retrograde application, is when both planets are retrograde, and move contrary to the order of the signs of the zodiac, applying to each other. Mixed application, is when one planet being direct, and the other retrograde, they yet mutually apply by aspect.

The two first of these applications are deemed the best; but in all cases it must be seriously considered, whether the aspect is approaching or receding, which leads us to treat next of:

Separation

Separation is when two signifieatora have lately been in aspect, and the aspect is just over; thus were posited in 1° , and in 6° , they are applying by aspect; but if instead of this were in 80 , and still in 60 , the aspect is over; having separated from the configuration of , which in all cases is of great importance to know; as application is the sign whereby events are denoted to take place, and separation denotes what has passed or taken place, whether in good or evil..