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The Mystic Test Book OR THE

MAGIC OF THE CARDS.

Giving the Mystic Meaning of these Wonderful and Ancient Emblems in their Relationship to the Heavenly Bodies, Under all Conditions; With Rules

and Processes for Reading or Delineating

the

Emblems.

COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED. Written and Compiled Under the Authority of the Mystic Brotherhood,

OIvNEY H. RICHMOND, GRAND MASTER OF THE INNER TEMPLE OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE MAGI. Author of "Temple Lectures."

Chicago,

Religion op the Stars," Etc.

III.,

U. S. A.

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Third Edition Revised and Enlarged. Copyrighted 1919

OLNET

RICHMOND

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JUN I6ly!9

Important JVottce* This work

fully protected by copyright according to

law. No. 4723 Y, issued January 23d, 1893. illustration

and

definition

Every

copyrighted, and

all

table,

persons are

warned against re-printing them or any part of them, under penalty of the law, which will be strictly enforced.

•

The owner of this book has signed an agreement whereby said owner is bound to not lend the work, or allow the use of the same to extend to persons outside his

own immediate

family, nor to allow any person to copy, nor obtain a copy of any of the rules, processes or engravings therein.

• This rule

•

designed as a protection to said owner, as well

and the good of the Order. It is intended and soiling of the book and the gathering of deleterious influences and magnetism by the promiscuous handling and loaning about the neighborhood that most books on occult subjects receive.

as to the author

to prevent the wearing out

•

This prohibition need not be construed so strictly as to prevent outsiders seeing the book, or even reading it in your

home

or presence.

If j^our friend or acquaintance wishes to

procure a copy, an order blank will always be sent, on application to us.

OLNEY

RICHMOND, Chicago,

III.

To the friends of owr secret order, within the sacred

and

who are regular attendants at our Grand Temple and unto those whose duties call them elsewhere. To all those who, having charity and hindness in their hearts and harmony in their souls, are willing to yield themselves to the worh of regeneration and advancement, with that energy characteristic of true mystics. To those who have an affinity fof the good, the pure and the true, as well as the spiritual advancement and development which enables them to comprehend the mysteries of the infinite and majestic universe. fold

without.

To those

To the faithful ones in Temple or Court, faithful

through water, through earth, through air, to the East, to the West, to the South and to the J^orth, with all and through all. through

fire,

This volume

respectfully ded^icated by the author.

Intr oduct torn The publication of this work was, we might say, forced upon us by the demand, before even a page of manuscript was prepared for the press. The demand was caused by members of the Temple, who recognized the necessity of a printed text book, from which they could study the meanings of the cards and their indications under the seven planets. These brothers and sisters naturally wished to perfect themselves in emblem reading as rapidly as possible, and they could not so perfect themselves, without a full and complete set of tables that tney could study and refer to at will. The next trouble that arose was the question of expense, as, aside from the printing, engraving, binding, electrotyping and matters of that kind, the author's time was, and is now so valuable that the item far overbalances those mentioned. It was finally decided that the most feasible plan, was to get out enough copies to supply more than our immediate membership and to sell them to outsiders under certain restrictions. We only intended, at first, to get out a book of about one hundred and sixty pages to be bound in cloth. But the generous subscriptions forwarded to us caused us to change our mind and we began writing additional copy. We are so occupied with Temple work, that this extra labor, together with superintending the publication and proof reading, has caused considerable delay beyond the time first set. We are sorry for this, but it could not well be avoided. Please remember, friends, that the price charged for this book is not f07' the size, nor the binding, nor the number of pages, but for the matter itself. The emblem delineation department is alone worth more than the price charged for the entire work. We have placed much other information in the book in addition to the tables of readings, in order to compensate our kind friends for the patient waiting and the numerous subscriptions they have procured for us. We certainly undertook the work at a time when the conditions were extremely unfavorable. We have been overrun with work in the Grand Temple, and down town shops engaged in the lines connected with book making are all full of World's Fair work. At last we have overcome the obstacles and here is the book v/hich we hope will please you. Respectfully and fraternally yours,

THE AUTHOR.

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....

The Book of the Seven Thunders The Origin

of Playing Cards

The Temple of Wisdom on Atlantis The Sacred Trident The Original

22,000

Number

An Astronomical Measure The

Spirit of

Numbers

Emblem Value The

Prepare for Reading the Emblems

Quadration of the Test Book

Astral Powers of the Months and Days of Mystic Crosses

Recapitulation of the

Work

Definition of the Mystic

Clubs

Diamonds

Spades

The Solar Quadrate and the Cross

of Christ

Emblems, Hearts "

56-68

61-62

49 50

40 -

128

102

156

...

Planetary Life and Time Lines

Example

34 -

24 -

19 -

Solar Value of the Cards

Drawing the Emblems

Power, Development and Success

How to

and the Mystic Star

of the Cards

15 -

Divine Soul

The Joker and His Value

Infinite, or the

Occult Properties of the

Years Ago

Sacred Seven

The Number of the

180

3ndi&x* Page.

Farther Explanation of Delineating

Characteristic Effect of the Planets

182

190

Wonderful Peculiarity Regarding the Effect of the Moon

194

The Planet

193

Jupiter, Millions of Years

Hence

The Wonderful Properties of the Test Book Tarots The Quadrated Astral Test Book

The Double

Triangle.

The Mystic Star

Example

Names

of the Tarots

Planetary Transformations

The Wonderful

36 Tarots

Characteristics

The Lost Word

of Oriental Mysticism

Spirit Co-ordinations

Order of the Magi.

A final

vii

244 .

247

252

253

Word

235 237

233

241 -

.... ...

The Explanations of the Magic Chart Can This Be Chance?

...

229 232

Strange Co-ordinations of the Mystic Triangle

Unique 3x3 Court Tarot

.... ...

The Astro -phrenological Head Calculations of Potencies

222

...

and Frames

220 221

The Tarot and the Zodiac, Birth Tarots Formation of Tarot Number

217

214 214

...

of the 5 Points of the Tarot

Female and Male Lines

With Negative Astrals

205

210

Rules for Finding the Negative Spirit of Cards

Examples of Double Astrals

200

255

256

INDEX Layout ....

Page

the Seven Planets

258

The Quadratic Delineation Under

257

Quadration of Tarots

Diagram

264

of the Vibrators

269

Parallelograms of Birth Tarots

271

Chart of Magic Cross and Cubes

274

General Birth Tarot Transformers

276

Charts of Zedoic Coordinates

278

The Great Mystic Triangle The Shadow of the Cross

286

Chart of Minute Cards

Chart of

284 .

290

Normal Hour Rulers

The Zodiac Naturals The Mystic Story of Atlantis The Grand Cross of CM .

Astral-Phrenology.

294 297 298 302

304

AVith Chart

Rulings of the Zodiac

306

The Four Test Book

313

Crosses

Altar Cloth Used in Tarotology and Altars of

318

With Emblems

320

Tanot Value and Souls of Tarots

321

Transformation of Pyramid Tarots

322

Marvelous Birth Element Tarot

324

Diagrams of Twelve Month Diagrams The Great Electric and Diamond Groups

327

Soruls of Other Wonderful Tarots

334

Four Birth Card Zodiacs and Directions The Twelve Lights of OM and Colors

338

Inspired Tarots.

331

336

CHAPTER

Tfte l^tttfe ISooft* IHE BOOK OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS.

"And when the Seven Thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, seal up those things, uttered by the Seven Thunders, and write them

not."

"And

I took the little hook out of the Angel's hand and devoured and to my taste it was sweet as honey; but as soon as I had devoured it, it became bitter unto my inside." "And he said unto me, you must prophesy again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings." it;

{Correct translation of Rev. JT,

and

11.)

Dear Reader: S a text to and

this

work read and consider the above,

would be

as well to read the entire tenth

chapter of Revelations, for the whole book

mystic one. If

you are able

to " read

between the

will comprehend that the "

little

book

lines "

you

" that

was

capable of voicing the " 7 thunders," that

book of the mystic brotherhood. ever

know

the test-

Did you or did anyone

of another book that was

enough to "hold

is,

only and original

voices of the seven planets, Avas the

always made small

the hand?"

last the utterances of the little

book which was sealed

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

its

wonders are to be unfolded partially that we

many

esy before

may

last

proph-

peoples.

Read Chapter

unto the gaze of men.

for a time, are to be opened

of Revelations.

other book that ever had an existence upon our planet,

has within

itself

the wonderful properties that are indubita-

bly attached to this

so "sealed" with hidden

attempts to " open" It is the oldest

book.

little

its

other "book" has been

emblematic meanings

as to defy all

pages.

book known and

existed long before the

modern written languages were thought

of.

extends so far back into the dim recesses of

Its history

the past, that

vdw&t per force

circumstantial evidence as to

its

ask our readers to take

early history and uses.

THE ORIGIN OF PLATIIfG CARDS.

The ancient

origin and uses of "playing cards,"

the name they have been called by since the

XIV

which

Century

has been shrouded in mystery, and their invention has been

claimed by nearly every civilized nation upon the globe. The Chinese, Persians, Egyptians and several other ancient nations, claim the

A pack

honor of their invention.

of cards, said to be

served in the

Museum

also claimed that they

immemorial.

When we

a thousand years

old, is pre-

of the Royal Asiatic Society.

have been known in India from time

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; {Cyc. Brit

Art. Cards.

find a certain invention claimed by a large

num-

ber of Nations, scattered over our globe, in widely separated localities,

we must conclude

that none of

them were the

ventors, but on the contrar}^, obtained the inventions of

nation preceding them by

many

years.

in-

some

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. This

many

actually the case with our test book, as well as with

other things used in modern times.

In addition to the great length of time that has elapsed since

its

invention,

we have the

fact to

contend with, that

the ancient and secret order that alone understood and used this

mystic book, sedulously guarded the sacred emblems from

They were each and

the knowledge of the outside world.

mark

them" upon any substance whatever, except for use

every one of them sworn not to "cut, carve, paint, write

the Temples of the Mystic Brotherhood.

MYSTIO EMBLEMS.

The

test

book has been called by various names, among

which the " Tarot Cards" appears ern works.

come

Why

many

they are tarot cards, will be seen

to the the tarot or

The

For instance; we

Tarot of the Bohemians,^''

Many

misled, by supposing that

some of the many substitutes for the the real tarot cards.

when we

magic square department.

modern writers however, have been

ancient and mod-

old genuine find in a

book are

work

called

by "Papus," a large number

of allusions to the test book, but strange to say, the writer

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

substitutes a pack of 78 cards containing Jewish

and Catho-

Symbols, Popes and Devils, for the genuine cards.

lic

quote from him a few passages. "

The Tarot pack of cards, transmitted by the Gypsies from

generation to generation,

ume

the primitive book of ancient

This has been clearly demonstrated by Guilla-

initiation.

Postal, Court de Gebelin, Etteila, Eliphas, Levi

The key

A. Vaillant.

to its construction

and

and application

has not yet been revealed, as far as I know."

(Preface to

work.) All very well, and true,

may

Magi

I ask, did the

from them, have

herited knowledge

Gypsies

pages 8 and

Papus

which has proved

for

enables

them

called the Tarot,

means

the book of Thoth

Adam, the book

test

book?

Gypsies possess a

to tell fortunes; yes; the

the book of

in-

of gaining a livelihood,

which the Gypsies

of Bibles.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;" The says:

their

who

to do with Popes, Devils

and "Angels of judgement" used in the bogus

Bible,

But what,

applied to the book.

of Egypt, or the

game

possess,

Hermes

of cards

the Bible

Trismegistus,

of primitive Revelations of An-

cient Civilizations.

"Thus

whilst the Freemason, an intelligent and virtuous

man, has

lost the tradition; while the priest, also intelligent

and virtuous, has

lost his

esoterism; the Gypsy, although

both ignorant and vicious, has given us the key which enables us to explain all the

symbolism of the ages."

The work from which the above quotations handed to chapters, I

me by

a friend, and

are

made, was

upon reading the headings

was delighted, thinking that a

fori found such headlines as

feast

was in

"The Astronomic

store,

Tarot;

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

Egyptian Astronomy; The Four Seasons; Application of the Tarot to Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrology; Fortune

But a perusal of the chapters

Telling by the Tarot," etc.

under these head

lines

gave no light whatever upon occult-

ism.

The

hook and wholly useless as a tarot hook.

test

cards recognized by the author, being worthless as

Reader, do not be misled by any of the so-called occult

works upon the

They

subject.

are very

quote and re-quote from each other, but the " blind leading the blind," and es,

behind

all this

enemy of our

possess the

it is

we can

all

the old story of

see without glass-

dust throwing, the secret hand of the great

order,

and

the

enemy of

The Egyptians were not the Test Book.

numerous and

The only people

science.

originators of the sacred

that were ever so situated as to

knowledge and acquirements necessary for such

a work, lived long anterior to the Egyptians.

That nation was the Atlantiaks.

This test book was

the crystalization of ages upon ages of observation of the stars

and planets, coupled with observations of the actions of

mankind

known

in that day.

Atlantis had an old and a grand civilization. last

remaining portion of

isted for

a vast continent, that had ex-

more than four hundred thousand

great Atlantic Ocean

now

She was the

years,

where the

tosses its waves.

The engraving shows the remnant

left, after

untold thou-

sands of years of wear and tear of the elements had degraded the continent and cast a great part of the detritus upon what

afterwards became the Continent of America.

Upon

a certain portion of this land, somewhat to the

South-East of the geographical center thereof, existed high-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

lands from which the land sloped in

undulations unto the sea.

much

all directions

On this highland

by gentle

there were other

higher elevations in the shape of mountains, between

which a most beautiful and In the center of flected

its

fruitful valley reposed.

this valley, a small, nearly

round lake

re-

mirrored surface the mountain tops and the

pinnacles of palaces and temples.

THE FINAL KINGDOM OF ATLANTIS.

Upon

a large rock in the middle of the lake, the Atlanti-

ans builded the palaces of her Kings, gorgeous with costly stones and metals. built entirely S.

Grand bridges lead

to an

embankment

around the lake, except at four places to the N.

E. and West, reserved for entrances by water.

Upon

this

ring resided the Nobles of the Court and their families.

Outside the ring of land was a canal, used for purposes of pleasure, and

from

this,

canals branched outward to a "belt-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. canal" surrounding the entire capitol.

From the

belt canal,

other canals were cut between the mountains, North, South,

East and West, where the water found

by four

rivers, as

These

rivers

by the copious

its

way

to the sea

shown upon the map.

were kept constantly supplied with water rain-fall attracted

by the mountain group

about the capitol, and the good people residing in the four quarters of the island of Atlantis, used the four rivers as

highways

to their capitol

and

to transport their products

thither.

Reader, Atlantis was the only place on this earth where

The only place where The " Garden of Atlan-

four rivers flowed from one source. four Kings reigned in one capitol. tis," as

the island was called, for the inhabitants took rich

earth and covered the rock

many

feet deep therewith,

was

planted with every tree and fruit to delight the palate or the

eye of man. In the midst of this garden stood the palace of the Kings,

and the grand Temple

Wisdom, the Temple

of her

Priesthood, where the " Religion of the Stars" was the only religion

known

or practiced.

knowledge," against which

This temple was the " tree of the

champions of revealed

religion have cast their church thunderbolts

mas

for ages

and

ages.

and anathe-

In the day that thou eatest

thereof thou shalt surely die,"

a formula

church endeavored for ages and ages to make

that

true.

the

Thou-

sands and millions of poor devoted followers of the truth

who have ventured ished for

The

to taste the "forbidden fruit" have per-

it.

first

"Garden

Eden" was

at the

North Pole; the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

16 last, built in

commemoration

of the

first,

was on the island

of Atlantis.

We have

only given a rough sketch, of what could be ex-

panded into a large book, but tic

mind

into

in other works

About

it is

making a study

fifteen

upon

enough

to start the

mys-

of the various proofs given

this subject.

thousand years ago, Atlantis was in the

height of her glory, with her colonies planted in

commerce.

of the world, accessible to her

Her

all

parts

strongest

possessions, however, were situated in

Egypt and South

America, although she had

north as the great

lake that covered what

cities as far

now Michigan and

the chain of

lakes surrounding that state.

For instance, the great ago, nearly where her stands.

Only the

city of Bab, stood 14,600 years

modern

river,

representative, Chicago,

which

now

a small affair in this age,

was then a wide and beautiful stream, flowing_/rom the " Gfeat-Lake-of-the-Northland" to

miles farther north than where

New

the ocean, nearly 300

Orleans

now.

Nearly fourteen thousand nine hundred years ago, or about B.

C. 13,000, the order of the

Magi dedicated

their

Temple in Egypt; the country which was destined to become the theater of the future exploits of the mystic

first

brotherhood for thousands of years.

As long tion over

as Atlantis stood, she held the

all

parts of the earth,

supreme

subordinate to her in the occult and spiritual

But the time came

a few

hundred years

rible catastrophe hurled the

neath Atlantis and in

jurisdic-

and Egypt was of courseline.

later,

when

a ter-

rocky foundations from be-

day and night of the most heart-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

rending and appalling crashes of earthquakes and thunders

and lightenings, the doomed country sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic.

Nothing was

left

but a few mountain tops, to mark the

place where a grand civilization had reigned. tain tops are

now

tral cluster of

These moun-

small islands, called the Azores, the cen-

which mark the

site of

the ancient Capital.

CHAPTER

II.

Tfte Xletigton of tfte Stars* THE SACRED TRIDENT OF ATLANTIS AS THE HEAVENS 22,000 YEARS

APPEARED

AGO.

RELIGION based upon the stars of heaven, which men had gazed upon for thousands upon thousands of years, was the most natural one that could be conceived.

Their knowledge of the planetary system was very great, for they had, by patient labor and striving,

and

prolonged

calculation, not only gained aiarge

observation

and

amount of knowledge

but they had, through their spiritual development, became possessed of

means of gaining occult knowledge not obtain-

able through the physical, even with the aid of the best in-

struments of modern times. Therefore the Ancient Magi taught a good, pure, scientific

and rational

religion,

with symbolism of the grandest

kind and a system of morals not surpassed by any modern system.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The world made thereof,

a poor

man-made

hells; requiring

exchange when

accepted in lieu

religion of gods, devils, heavens

and

an endless chain of rank absurdities to sup-

port the structure.

A BOOK OF SYMBOLS,

Any book in

written in a language other than symbolic, must

the course

of time become nearly non-understandable

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through changes of language and meaning of words, to say nothing of

loss

through translations from translations,

etc.

and among

all

But symbols are the same

in all tongues

peoples.

The German maiden understands

the meaning of a kiss

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

and gives

the same interpretation as does the English or

Spanish maiden.

Thus the

heart

an emblem of love the world over.

The

diamond an emblem of wealth.

The Ancient Magi understood

and they

this principle

understood the deeper hidden principle that underlies

symbolism, that

that there

thing that exists; that the

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also all

a spirit force back of every-

spirit force or astral light of a

symbolic thing becomes ajixed principle through the mind

and

spirit force of

man acting upon

for ages and ages.

materialist cannot understand this, for his

mmd cannot

grasp the meaning of spirit or mind.

When

the writer was young, the coffin was stained and

varnished usually only a few hours before being used, so that the peculiar smell came to be closely associated with

death and funeral sermons. I

have conversed with

many

tions experienced by myself

and

I find that nearly all

people regarding the sensa-

whenever

whom

smell fresh varnish,

I have compared notes with

have recognized the same thing.

shudder and peculiar

sinking of vibration connected with death.

Thus, by the

mere association for a few generations we have erected a symbol of death appealing

Emblems appealing

to only one sense, smelling.

the eye have more power because

they appeal by a higher vibration.

The

vibrations

coming

to the retina of the eye to produce the sensation of sight,

run into hundreds of

trillions per second,

than those producing smell or are quite powerful in ple have observed.

some

taste.

many

times higher

The symbols

directions, however, as

of taste

most peo-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SYMBOLISM OF NUMBERS,

At the very foundation of and geometry.

symbolism

all

the smallest particle seen under the to the largest

lie

mathematics

from

fact, the universe itself is built up,

compound microscope,

sun or even Nebula, on exact geometrical and

mathematical principles.

Men

have simply followed Nature's lead in the symbolic

The number seven

use of numbers.

interwoven through-

out the very warp and woof of Nature's handiwork. ancient books

number

Genesis

The

plan.

all

plan of sevens extending

find a divine

through the pages.

written from

great pyramids of

first to last

Egypt

are bristling

plan of mathematical and

throughout with a wonderful

geometrical calculation, based upon knowledge of the grandest kind.

The one.

But

basis of all

The this

numbers

number must be

infinite

number

number end

number

each in

itself in-

say, that there is

number

of uninhabited

of inhabited worlds; an infinite

of satellites, in the universe.

to space,

countless

entities,

Thus we can

of suns, an infinite

worlds; an infinite

Ego.

In fact the Universal Ego

made up of a countless number or ways.

basis of all life

one, the Universal

infinite, for the universe is infinite

both in duration and extent.

finite in certain

The

one.

basis of all that exists

For

there can be

and the same law that peoples one portion with

numbers of heavenly

bodies,

must operate

to pro-

duce them everywhere.

The Ancient Magi

adopted, as their representation of

infinity, a circle; for the very significant reason that a circle

has no beginning or end and thus

fulfills

two of the con-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

22 ditions.

infinite

They reasoned that the number one followed by an

number

of circles would be a

symbolical and

fit

mathematical representation of the Infinite One.

KUMBER OF THE

INFINITE.

100000000,000000 + CO Later discoveries have proved that this

a wise thought

and leads to many wonderful demonstrations of truth.

THE DIVINE OR SOUL NUMBER SEVEN. The number

7 represents the soul in nature,

becomes the center of

all

the sacred

find

religious systems

number interwoven

known on our planet, and

and woof of Creation seem to

The

sacred

known

number

and therefore

symbolic numbers, so to speak.

bristle

of the Magi,

into all the

the very warp

with sevens.

and one that has been

in our symbolism as the strangest of

all, is

14 2857

Composed

this

of twice 7: 4 times 7: 8 times 7 with the

Ego

added to the last figure. It

and

a wonderful

number, in a hundred

used in our temple work a great deal.

some of the strange properties

various

different

ways

shall give

parts

of this

book. It is

evolved by dividing the

Soul number

Keep up the

get nothing but the sacred

The wonders

number

of the Infinite by the

division to all eternity

and you

number 142857 over and

are best illustrated

over.

however with the emblems

of the test book, as the reader will see further along.

The number

the center of each suit of the test book,

as can be best exemplified

by the following.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

ILLUSTRATION IN SUIT OF HEARTS.

__,

V 6 The mystic number can be represented in the emblems krjowledge as follows:

ÂŤ

Change any card from right product by some number.

V V to left

V and you get a true

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

Change the Ace of Clubs the product of the sacred left

to the other end

number by

and you have the product by

and you have

Place the 7 to the

Suppose you wish to multiply the sacred number by 15, Set

down

Take 7

the

142857

714285

to begin, thus

Add which

number

together

2142855

15 times the number.

But you could have taken 2 from the right hand and by placing

same

at the left

figure

you would have obtained the

result.

Multiply the sacred number by 7 and you obtain a product all in nines.

THE OCCULT PROPERTIES OF THE NO.

The number nine

the representative of another phase of

symbolism representing the duality of the physical, plus the deific seven.

we find in tarotology a wonderful blending of two numbers in harmonious relations in thou-

Therefore these

sands of ways.

So much has been written concerning the mystic qualities of the

number

the subject at

nine, that

much

will

be unnecessary to go into

length in this work.

All products of

nine and sums of products as well as products of sums have

N**^ root of nine.

Many of a

occult demonstrations have been given by

means

knowledge of the properties of this mystic nine.

Take any number, large or small, and place with sal of itself

a rever-

and subtract one number from the other and the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. difEerence will always reduce to nine,

ple of that

and

always a multi-

number.

Example— 356781 Reversed— 187653 Difference=169128=N 9 Take any numljer and subtract from digits

the

sum

and the difference always has an N*^ root

THE MYSTIC STAR TAROT.

of its

—nine.

own

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

One of the most wonderful combinations

of the 7 and 9

properties

found in the Star Tarot of the Ancient Magi.

This Star

composed of 2 equilateral

and

one

representing

light,

one dark

triangles,

Darkness

and

Light

astronomy or the body and soul or physical and

spiritual

in nature.

Each

from

triangle represents 3

its

geometrical quality.

United by multiplication, 3 times 3 or

Magic Square

in the center

The

tarot, or

a 3 times 3 tarot with niiie as

central figure.

its

Upon each pomt

of the star

seen an

emblem card from the

Mystic Test Book, which taken by spot values represents the

number 142857

sacred

in regular order as the earth

moves

about the sun

The

spot values of any two opposite

gether produce

The Quarter

emblems added

to-

the Central Card spot value.

values added in the same

manner make

the 9 minus the quadrature or 4 in the square.

The Solar which

The and of

will be

values and spirit values have like properties

taken up

later.

writer has spent days in study of this Mystic Chart

still

finds

new wonders upon

The combinations

it.

show the product

of a master mind.

shall again produce

and perhaps a third time to and the

nearly every examination

of 7 and 9 are truly wonderful, and

under the head of tarotology illustrate the spirit of

numbers

spirit of potentials in medicine.

All this leads us to an intelligent consideration of the true

nature and meaning of the symbolism used in the test book.

find

that

consists

of a union

of the symbols

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. time, of numbers, of trical

human

relations, of spirituality,

forms and astronomy,

all

geome-

within a small compact

space without words to be misconstrued, misunderstood or mistranslated.

We its

find that everything about these mystic

particular

meaning even

to the forni in

emblems has

which the spots

are arranged.

ASTRONOMICAL AERANGEMENT.

The 52 emblems

or pages represent the 52 Aveeks in a

year.

The 12 court emblems The 13

represent the 12

months

in a year.

cards in each suit represent the sun and the 12

signs of the Zodiac.

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The four

suits represent the 4 seasons.

Chart showing the emblems arranged to

the

illustrate

above arrangement will be found on preceding page.

In the spring-

In the spring of the year the birds mate. time of

or the first quarter, love

life

The heart was

therefore chosen as the

quarter and the

first

The next

clover leaf of

of the

first

season.

stage of

life is

represented by the trefoil or

Knowledge

summer.

summer

tained in the

the master passion.

emblem

life,

and

best gained

re-

the second period.

Therefore the shamrock or " club," became the emblem of

knowledge, intelligence, heat, argument, or even quarrels and

law suits under some planets.

The

season,

third

diamond,

autumn,

representative of

man's

life is

In the

fall

has

for its

wealth.

the one in which he

The

emblem

the

third period of

best able to gain wealth.

of the year the crops are sold and the wealth of

the harvest realized.

Winter or the fourth quarter of the Zodiac, resented by

the spade

or acorn.

rep-

and yet

a strange

natural transformation, the acorn, which represented the

symbolism of the death and burial of the physical form was

changed among some nations to the spade which represented the same thing.

sends forth a time.

But the

acorn,

life principle

when

planted in the

which becomes a new

soil,

tree in

had a deeper signification than the spade, which

symbolizes death without resurrection.

But the spade being an instrument

of labor,

becomes

a symbol of labor and death combined.

In addition to the quadratic division of the

test

book

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. there

a two-fold

becoming black and

The

tronomically. applied to

man.

7 planets under

dark and light, finally These symbolize night and day as-

division into red.

darkness

and light

The 52 emblems being

life

etc.,

multiplied by the

which they rule in succession, make the

days in the year, less

There being no ruling card

one.

for the 31st of December.

The Ancient

therefore used the 365th day of the year as a

holiday, or festival day, doing

no work upon that day.

very few years ago quite a radical change was made

in the style of the Court Cards

making them

" double headers."

by the manufacturers, by Before this the Kings and

Knaves had legs and feet showing below But the mystic emblems were preserved

their Court robes. as far as possible

and yet appear as of yore.

The "winged globe" with mercury,

its

seven balls, emblem of

yet borne by the king of wisdom, and each of his

brothers bear secret

emblems that have survived the changes

of centuries.

Their hair and beards yet curl as in the olden time

they hold up the sword of justice or the battle axe of power.

The Queens look from the same Egyptian

eyes,

wear

the same garb, and hold modestly in their hand the secret lotus flower of innocence

and

virtue.

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The good and laid aside

her

industrious queen of spades has not even

emblem

of labor, in all the ages past.

i And

our good friends,

called

"Jacks" by some, em-

blematic of the younger and unmarried portion of the male persuasion,

still

bear their

emblems.

little

its

They

meaning.

young and two upon

mystic leaf

still

wear the curled

older, the difference

locks.

Two

being

can usually be seen

their faces.

They were

originally honest

men

Koyal Couple, the accceptance of

And Knaves

friends,

them

modern

times, by

into "Knaves."

some of you may

that these characteristics,

none other in

ask,

why

appertaining to this book and

existence,

everything

not. the engravers their original

but, being next the

they remain to this day.

Now, good

world where

all,

bribes, in

those in like position, transformed

seen in the hand of one; but few persons could guess

else

have has

been

preserved

changed.

Why

have

and printers changed them entirely out of

form

as they

have everything else?

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

Why

have they kept them confined to the same number,

52, as of yore?

There could have been no law to compel this wonderful thing.

Why of

cards,

then,

that, as

one authority

the same

substantially

"a pack

states,

those in

now,

use

known to be over a thousand years old, is in existence." The only anathema ever pronounced against those who should change, by taking away or adding to this book, was

promulgated only to the members of the order and has come

down the

to us only as an attachment, fastened

mystic book

of Revelations, one

upon the end of

of the

few books

written by " inspiration " in the entire Bible.

That could have possessed no protected that ancient

terrors, for it has not

work from thousands

even

of changes,

interpolations and errors.

Reader, you this:

may

The answer

well ask these questions.

Manufacturers, interested church

men and

inventors

have attempted time and time again to change the figures, the emblems, the faces, and even the

number

of cards in this

During and after the war of the Rebellion a heavy

book.

tax was placed upon cards containing 52 emblems to thÂŠ pack, or having the well

known emblems,

hearts,

clubs,

diamonds and spades upon them.

emblems

Manufacturers attempted

change

the

war emblems,

crossed

swords,

certain etc; the

One

such

Court cards were changed to high

cannons,

army

oflScers.

ambitious inventor had beautifully engraved modern

kings and queens upon his

make

of cards

herself appearing as the queen of hearts.

Queen Victoria

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But

Fortunes were squandered to no purpose.

all in vain.

The people

ivould not have them at anij price.

Soldiers

would

"hang on" to the old, well worn and greasy "test book," and when that could no longer be used, would pay a dollar for a new one, while the gaudy new style cards were cast contemptuously into the ditch by the road-side.

These changes have been attempted in other countries. In Italy and several other Catholic countries, interested parties have

they

call

thought to do away with this

the

picture

"devil's

book,"

little

book, which

by introducing a

highly colored lot of cards with cups and virgins and bells

and other devices upon the

But you cannot get even

faces.

an Irishman to use them, and in spite of extensive advertising they have fallen

flat.

In the meantime, the manufacturers of the genuine old magic book, have grown wealthy and in

100 gross

sell at

present only

lots, to dealers.

They change the backs over and over figure or design.

But the

faces

to every imaginable

must remain the same, or

they are " no go," as one manufacturer quaintly remarks.

There the

no question, whatever,

mind, but that

magic and mystic symbolism attached

nected with the pages of this book, the occult means of preserving

to,

and con-

has been the means,

intact as shown.

Underneath the physical senses of mankind, there psychic recognition of the hidden things in nature.

who think but

very

little

Those

of such matters, apparently, really

recognize the principles of law and the manifestations of the " soul

things,"

Hard-headed business men,

spiritual development,

that

can

be discerned,

with

recognize

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. the reign of law, and notice what If "luck," so-called,

bad.

called " luck "

was not a

state

good and

brought about

through regularly acting laws, there could be no conInstead of a man's bad luck pursuing him

stancy to.it.

hours, days or weeks at a time, he should be just as likely to

have splendid luck one minute after the worst kind.

Although everything in nature exemplifies the law, there

no other thing that

illustrates it to

such a nicety as

does our Magic Test Book. " Gypsies," those lineal descendants of Egyptian races of

olden time, recognize

human

readers"

through

natural

work

They have the knowledge

and intuitive

Nearly any old card player will

Not one During

as "card

power.

But an

of the most expert gypsy in that line.

of "runs of

perience

are noted

mystic of the order of the Magi can discount

educated the

destiny.

descent

and

fact

this

luck" with in

fifty,

tell

you wonderful

stories

cards.

who has had any amount

of ex-

with them, will deny the mysterious properties.

two years experience in the Temple work I

have learned that the only persons who do not understand these occult properties, to

some

extent, even before en-

tering the house of Libra, are those

who never handled know the names of

the cards in their lives and do not even the emblems.

Many

such persons quickly discern the

occult powers, however,

whan opportunity

offers.

CHAPTER

An WHAT

III.

Measure^

^strofiottitcar CHANCE?

THE

JOKER

AND

THE

VALUE.

ITS

SOLAR YEAR.

HANCE

defined as

accident, or

pen without assignable cause." of years

men supposed

" to

hap-

For thousands

that the elements com-

bined in chance proportions, and they never

dreamed that chemistry was an exact

The

stars of

heaven were supposed to move

about or stand

But at

it is

least

know

now known in

science.

still

(?) as " chance " directed.

that no such thing exists as chance,

regard to the majority of things, and

that nothing comes

by chance.

true mystic recognizes this at a glance.

are not mystics have

no use

Those who

for this book, or the " re-

ligion of the stars."

THE JESTER OR JOKER.

strange fact

has been

found out

by the mystic

brotherhood within a few months regarding the " Joker," as

it is

called.

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A few years ago some

unknown genius invented

evidently

object

the

The

games.

first

made

adding

interest

inventor placed

emblems, hearts, clubs, card and

all

with

certain

the four quarter

diamonds and spades upon the

a universal

THE KING

trump

card.

JESTER.

It really " took " but little with the general public,

usually thrown away.

will

all

right, as

and queens

In serious

presence in a test book

and render an emblem

Emblematically speaking,

reading null and void. to

Its

calculation

invalidate every

and

seems

was the custom of ancient kings

keep a

jester.

aflPairs

this joker

counted as nothing, and

emblem it counted But the brotherhidden meaning to this court fool,

strange to say, as an astronomical

the same.

His

hood begins

to see a

after all the "

solar value being zero.

throwing out " he has been subjected

to.

represents the /owr quarters by virtue of his four suits

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

and the center or place of kings by his court value,

making what

resents five quarters, in

number symbolism.

such should be a

This really rep-

called the five points.

sent the entire

fact, the test

book would

repre-

motion of the earth about the sun, or

the astronomical year, 52 weeks, plus one and one-fourth

Then from another

days.

standpoint, which seems to

we have the reckoning

bear out the view already taken, the spot values of

all

The four Kings 4x18 " " Queens 4x12 "

Tens 4x10

32 other spot cards

The Joker

= =

40 36

=144

= H

=48 =44

Nines 4x9

Knaves 4x11

the cards as follows:

=3651

Total

Exactly the days in a solar year. If

this

Kepler, "

Again,

is it

" chance "

remarked by the immortal

comes so near a law

we have the

as to set

one thinking."

rulings of each card under each of the

planets; 7 times 52, plus 5 quarters

making up the year

complete.

have now considered

the various

properties

the test book, and before proceeding to deeper studies will

simply explain that the word " measure, weigh and

test,"

means

prove,

try.

All dictionaries agree in saying that the word "test"

comes from the root observe

how

" taste,"

and the reader

requested to

occultly the writer of Revelations brings

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

alluded to the " little

out the fact that he book " when he speaks of the " taste " being " sweet as honey."

Looked at from the ordinary point of view, it is absurd to speak of " tasting " a book, but when we understand that

the

it,

devoured "

Mystic Brother

as so

many

see the very beautiful

" tested "

when he we

others have done since then,

manner

which he concealed his

language.

The Bible

full

can only be read by the

The word root,

these sealed

messages, which

initiated.

" testament "

was taken from

this

and the Christian regards his new testament

same

as a tes-

ter of the truth.

Candid reader, which book has the best right to the name ? In

my humble

opinion the answer

an easy one

to give.

ASTRAL NUMBERS OF THINGS.

Everything that

exists, large or small, possesses a

num-

ber that exactly gives a mathematical expression of the

thing

itself.

If the constitution of the is

thing

complex, the number

complex. If

be simple in constitution, the astral number

simple.

AS AN ILLUSTRATION. 1030 Oxygen has for its number Hydrogen has for its number 212 1969 Nitrogen has for its number 1050 Carbon has .for its number These numbers are nearly simples, except that the combining force numbers are included.

Water

compound

hydrogen 2 equations, oxygen

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

one.

Its

number

This

constituents.

1010, being less even than one of

its

caused through the suppression of

the combining force numbers.

course, a general treatment of this branch of the

subject

out of place here, as

to treat astro-chemistry alone, as

will require a large

book

requires.

Not only physical things have these numbers, but abstracts, such as certain dates or periods of time have their expressions in

numbers.

Thus we have the numbers, and the

nativity numbers, the environment

astral

numbers

of persons.

These numbers are useful in many mathematical

cal-

culations in the occult line.

The one,

writer's nativity

by the way,

number

644699; a very peculiar

as will be seen

upon

close examination.

THE SPIRIT OF NUMBERS. Every number, however

large,

has

its spirit

root, which brings the expression of the

tables

within

bounds,

certain

the

number down

powers of expression

to in

and books.

If the

number

of the physical is small, the spirit

much larger than the number. The spirit numbers may be taken on consist of

several

figures,

Brotherhood of Magic the

or occult

number

The

but

high scale and so

the one

used

the one found by

called the N*^ root

spirit root of a

number

may be

by the

means of

by some. is

equal to the N*^ root

of one-ninth of the number, plus ten times the enumer-

ator of of the

any fraction that may

number by

nine.

arise

from the division

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

To obtain this spirit by an easy method, simply divide the number by nine, reduce the quotient to the N*^ root and place the remainder,

What

Example.

Found

any, to the left of

the spirit root of 1844?

it.

Ans. 86.

9)1844(204=6

as follows:

36 86

The N**! root is found by adding the figures composing a number together, continuously until but one figure remains.

The N*^

has by

root

work

AND IfUMBERS OF THE MYSTIC EMBLEMS.

Like everything

number,

its spirit

only this,

else the "

root

but each

and

which

constant, like

solar value;

number so

values, spirits

earth changes

environment number. its

individual

number,

solar value

person.

the spirit

But

constant. all

all

other

the time as the

its polarity.

values from day to day, from hour

from minute

to minute,

and one value changes

five seconds.

THE EMBLEM VALUE OF CARDS.

Hearts=0

its

Not

or root of a card is obtained from the

and numbers change

Emblems change to hour,

Mystic Test Book " has

Each card has its the astral number of a

and environment.

spirit

its

card has

spirit

every

qualities,

illustrate further, before thi?

ended.

SPIRITS

The

many wonderful

itself

which I may speak of and

Clubs=13

Diamonds=26

Spades=39.

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" suit values."

These values are called

The

"quarter values " of the

same

are:

1:2:3:4

The "spot

the numbers of

valyies" are

the spots on

each card. But, Knaves count as 11, Queens as 12 and Kings as 13.

These spot values added together for the whole

book^364.

This

equal to

the

cards

test

the book

multiplied by the 7 planets.

52=364.

7 times

Add

the "Joker " or " Jester " which

represents the four quarters and the sun, and

and we get 365^, the days a remarkable fact that on the 31st

to five-fourths, It is

Jester rules supreme, even the "

bow

equal

in a year. of

Members

December the of the Court

to him.

When we the same

take out 52 weeks from our year,

we have

day " left on our hands.

THE SOLAR VALUE OF THE CARDS is

found by adding the spot value to the suit value.

The

spirit

root

of this solar value

the "spirit of

the emblem."

TAKE FOR EXAMPLE THE FOLLOWING CARDS: r

0^0 Spot value

Suit value Solar value Spirit value

49 45

4 26 30 33

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Observe how very as

values,

different the spirits are from the other

have some strange facts

present

relation to this later on.

SYMBOLISM OF THE

Now, each emblem

SUITS.

in the Mystic Test

nature, or characteristic,

Book has

corresponding to one of the

planets in both the suit and spots.

Venus and Mercury rule hearts. Mars and Earth rule clubs. Jupiter and Neptune rule diamonds.

Saturn and Uranus rule spades.

But these couplets

of planets

do not give the same

characteristic to the same emblem.

While Yenus and

love.

Mars

rules an

Mercury

rules

emblem from it

a point of friendship

from a point of passion.

clubs mainly from the point of lawsuits,

quarrels and heat; while Terra rules in clubs from the

standpoint of knowledge. Jupiter cards, diamonds, indicate wealth.

Neptune

cards, diamonds, indicate

commerce.

Saturn cards, spades, from a standpoint of death.

Uranus

cards, spades,

from

a point of labor.

GEOMETKICAL SYMBOLISM.

We or spot

have

briefly

glanced at the symbolism of the

suits,

emblems and the numbers in the foregoing remarks.

will

now

consider

the occult

meanings of the

geometrical form of the single tcards and co-ordinates.

The

co-ordinate of any card in

taining an equal in

sijirit,

number

one having a

of spots.

spot value

The

one con-

co-ordinate card

spirit value equal to the solar

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

value

of the

other.

The following couplets

are co-ordi-

nate in spirit and solar values. Solar value card leading in each couple.

a* -1

The in

two being double

first

Book.

Test

the

common

4 4 4^4 4 4 t co-ordinates, the

Co-ordinates in spirit

only such

and

suit are

the second couplet being an example.

ILLUSTRATION OF GEOMETEIC SYMBOLISM.

D D O o o o « » » « » D D O o o o « » » Trouble. Change. Emblems of Monotomj. This row of cards represent a personal " path of life."

laying out the actual emblems from the Test

Book

represented here, one can observe the symbolism to better

advantage.

The

sixes

show a

life,

for a time,

moving

with nothing out of the usual routine.

in straight lines,

But

at the fourth

card an obstacle comes in the way, trouble comes.

shows a change, as lines

change in one's

The

five

represents a cross, X, in one's path; the life

and a journey perhaps removes the

person from the preceding monotony.

These are the general characteristics of those cards, the variations

coming from the planets they rule under

at the

time

The twos

indicate unions or Joinings; bargains between

two persons.

Co-partnership

person to person.

and

letters

passing

from

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Threes indicate indecision, or a place where two ways open before one,

the spot in the center was the person

ILLUSTRATION OF UNIONS AND INDECISIONS.

ÂŤ

9 6 6 ,

and the other spots the two ways leading

two

directions.

POWER, DEVELOPEMENT AND SUCCESS.

V 6^6

0^0

This entire row represents symmetrical fullness or rounding out, just as the spots are arranged on the emblems.

The

eights indicate

power

overcome obstacles, spiritual

advancement and numbers of persons,

congregations or

gatherings of people.

The tens represent

success, as if one stood in the open

space between the spots, surrounded with success upon

all

sides.

The geometrical form on the nines

a representation of a

path with a disappointing obstacle in the center.

from either end and

bars your progress.

Approach

You

are dis-

appointed and turned back.

The seven

a trouble, from one ivmj only.

Approach

from another direction and trouble disappears.

these few illustrations,

studied

which should be carefully

by the student of card delineation, we have shown

that the geometrical forms have a

meaning

of their own.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

THE COURT OF DISAPPOIJS'TMENT AND TROUBLE.

0^0

Some

how The

6 ^

of our students have been at a loss to understand

could be, that seven, a sacred

spirit,

6"6

)

should

of each other.

are, as

Sevens do not

Some

but mateuial. spiritual

The explanation

indicate trouble.

and material

spiritual

number representing is

this:

one might say, antipodes

indicate

trouble,

spiritual

of the most advanced

persons, in a

way, have the most trouble from material sur-

roundings and environments, being antagonistic to their natures.

This

my own

a natural law,

and

this world's goods, they

had better

can advise

all,

let their spiritual

remain undeveloped and dwarfed. his treasure in

from

experience, that, if they wish to become rich in

" mystic "

heaven and not upon earth.

in coin that can be taken out with

deals

nature

lays

life beyond the grave, and he " that " shrouds have no pockets

the grander

THE TEST BOOK IN

ITS

knows

RELATION'S TO TIME

him

into

full well

AND MAGNETIC

FORCES.

The

first

form

of the Test

Book

known

as the

"solar"

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

book or the natural order book.

this

book each emblem

occupies a place corresponding to

its

own

value.

TO FOKM A NATURAL TEST BOOK.

up from ace to

Pile the first quarter cards, hearts, face

king.

the same with the 2nd, 3rd

emblems, ending with king of spades.

now

and 4th quarter

The emblems

are

in the natural order according to the Zodiac.

RULING EMBLEMS.

shuffled,

mixed or

how much

or by

Avhom

cut, there are seven cards that rule

under

In every pack of cards, no matter

These rulers change in accordance with

the seven planets.

the occult principles of time and the magnetism of the

person or persons handling them.

There

are

ways

several

finding

these

ruling

emblems by mathematical process and psychic powers, but the most ready means

them by the following easy

to find

mechanical process.

When

the book

fully prepared by

begin at the top of the book, which cards and deal them

each

pile as

you

Mer.

Ven.

9 9

6 6

2.7 The

go.

into

Begin

Mars

any process required, alwaijs the hack of the

7 piles one by one, finishing at

Mercury.

Jup.

figures under each card

show how many cards

are

to be placed in that pile.

The

cards given are the rulers in a natural order, or solar

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

The

book.

cards on

top of each

represented as

pile are

turned over face up.

Lay pile

each ruling card to the right of the

off

on top of

and

pile

them

pile; place

on Neptune

all

the

pile in

regular order from Uranus to Mercury.

Now vrhere,

quadrate the book as per instructions given else-

and

many

find that unless the

times as you please, and you will

book

shuffled

or cut, these rulers

always come under the seven planets when spread again.

Not always

same planets, but they are

the

all there.

an examination of the cards in each

pile

you

will find

that every card, other than these 7 rulers, have been scattered, to the " four

winds of heaven," symbolically speaking, by

the quadration. rules

Make

2 quadrates and each of these rulers

under same planet

By keeping up

as in a solar book.

the quadrating until you have covered the

degree in one quarter of the Zodiac, that will find every

far,

emblem

its

90 quadrates, you

original solar place.

we have only the results of pure mathematical moment we introduce persona/ magyietism

principles; but the

and the actions of individuals under the ing at the time, we have

astral forces prevail-

new elements which must be taken

into consideration.

Let a person ^'cut" the Test Book, which taking a portion of the book

upon the

off

from the

emblems in the ruling

line,

performed by

top, placing it

table and placing the remaining part

change takes place along the whole of

upon

it,

and a

with a new set

places.

Let a person shuffle or mix the cards up for a period of 60 seconds and the place of every

emblem corresponds

to his

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. personal magnetism.

Let liim cut the book so prepared,

8 times in succession, with just 20 seconds interval between,

and the ruling places are occupied by the cards ruling

at the

time, under the seven planets.

Now, quadrate the book and lay it out in the grand spread and every card in the Test Book comes under the planet where

rules

with

person

that

the

time,

present or future, according to whether the planetary

represented by

The

it is

maximum, waxing from time

from

my own

magnetism;

by one person, of

book are

illustra-

and

cuts, in

shuffles

They

regular order on selected minutes.

efiEect

or waning.

lay outs or " grand spreads " in this

tions of actual quadrates

past,

are nearly

necessary to have a set

it is

at least 52 lay outs in order to

all all

make

study of the subject.

first

sight any lay out seems to have

no particular plan

But the more

or form, illustrating the action of fixed laws.

you study these lay outs the greater an

at the evidences of

occult force

Examine the spreads

will

your wonder be

back of the emblems.

book and compare them

this

one by one, and you will soon begin to observe the peculiar

movements of

in spirit

Then spread

certain ruling cards of co-ordinate values

and solar values, shuffle a it

book,

as well as spots.

cut

hereinafter taught

The

and

observe

light

the couplets of co-ordinating emblems,

will

soon begin to see that there

make

same

and dark shades in your

life,

cards " that can and does

the

it,

Notice the peculiar group-

evidences of law with yourself.

ing of the colors.

instructed, quadrate

itself

et.c, etc.

You

a "spirit behind the

manifest.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

The quadrations used at

certain

as illustrations in this

hours, minutes and

selected

work

are

made

seconds and then

assorted according to the magnetic effects.

other person would produce spreads exactly like these,

but the general

effect is the

same and from these spreads

calculations and prognostications can be

made

for any person

or persons.

One spread

given for the culmination of each minute,

with the sun card progressing according to the solar values.

The following

plate

shows the arrangement of a grand

spread with particular reference to the planetary rulings and the lines denoting the three periods of time, past, present and future.

part

The two perpendicular

of the

third

and part of each

effect

The

past.

line to the right

in the present effect,

upon the right and

lines

denoting the

and

left of it

of the present aspect

This

belongs

which covers a few days of time, or the

upon the person.

The rows

row

refer to the

of hearts and clubs, and part of the diamond future.

center line

layout

arranged to show the

not

first

quadrate,

being

simply

7 spot value cards under the

planets of same number, in order to familiarise the student

with the number and rotation of the planets.

Upon

the

right the cards are partly arranged in a form to indicate the

planets they each rule under the strongest. are under Jupiter denoting

power and

Thus the kings

rule.

Tens under Uranus denoting success.

Nines under Saturn

indicating disappointment.

Queens under Venus the female planet and ruler of love.

Of course

view only.

this

all

from a symbolical point of

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PLANETARY, LIFE AND TIME LINES OF GRAND SPREAD. Perpendicular rows are life lines; horizontal, planet a r if ; top line, sun cards; the middle one being the solar time card.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

The student this

advised though,

make

a study

become perfectly familiar with the

plate in order to

The

planetary lines and other items mentioned.

suits

upon

the right indicate the characteristic suits of the planets at the

other end of the horizontal lines, an explanation

of which has been heretofore given.

DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE TEST BOOK.

The person who The one who

way most natural a watch

2nd.

shuffles

and

will call B. cards, in

any

holding

which should be started

of one minute

cuts

off

the

will call

if possible.

performed by taking

them upon

to him, for just one minute;

At the end

sun

and mixes the

and keeping the time,

on an even minute

the

to give the reading

C thoroughly

1st.

to receive the reading

cloth

once

C places the book upon

immediately.

The cut

a portion of the emblems, laying

and placing

the

balance

of the

book thereon. 3rd.

just 20 seconds later

again, which results.

and

directed by

must be done exactly on time

At the end of 20 seconds more C

last time.

The book

now

to cut

to secure correct

cuts for the third

ready for

THE PLANETARY CUTTING. Although a reading can be given upon an ordinary experts

always

obtainable.

use

When

Zodiac table cloth,

the Zodiac

table,

when one

not used, the piles of cards

are laid about the table in as near a circle about the central pile as is convenient.

4th. pile

cuts a few cards from the top of the center or sun

and places them in the house of the Zodiac corresponding

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. to his

month

of birth.

no Zodiac

used

C must

fix

a point on the table as his birth month. 5th.

then cuts

any house he 6th.

feels

off

some more cards and places them in

impressed to put them

in.

repeats this operation until he has 7 piles around

the circle, the last pile consuming the last of the sun cards.

sun

If the cards in the

are completed,

in the circle to

run out before the seven

pile

C must cut some off from make up the number.

piles

the pile already

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THE ZODIAC TABLE CLOTH USED IN HEADINGS. There must always be a distinct pile of two or more cards

for each of the seven planets, or the results are

DEAWING THE RULING EMBLEMS. 7th.

C must now begin

loorthless.

MARRIED MALES.

at the pile of cards nearest to

Aries, or the first pile to the right of the lower Celestial

Meridian, select one card from the

upon a paper or upon the sun.

tablet

and

pile,

make a

place the

card

record of face

down

then passes on in the direction the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

months run and does the same until

for each pile in succession,

he has seven cards piled upon the sun.

8th.

If the person

unmarried, he must begin at exactly

the opposite polarity, or the house of Libra, September, and

proceed as directed in section

EXCEPTIONS TO THIS ORDER. Females,

draw

if single,

should begin at Virgo, or August, and

in retrograde to the months.

Married females should

begin at Pisces, February, and draw in retrograde order, but in all

section

other respects in the same

manner

as set forth in

CUT SHOWING ZODIAC HOUSES AND MONTHS, WITH PILE OF

CARDS AS PLACED.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. 9tli.

start

Ill

case the Zodiac cloth

from any

pile

personal intuition

C is

feels

not used, the draw must

impressed to start with.

recommend the

a sheet of white

the illustration

paper

shown

If the

strong, the results will be excellent,

but with persons of low intuitive powers phatically

Zodiac,

if it is

marked

off

would em-

nothing more than with a pencil like '

above.

ll^^*^^ THE WALL ZODIAC OR TRESTLE-BOARD. use, the signs and figures other than

For actual

months and names of

houses

Chicago mystics use a table

may be

cloth

omitted.

the

Our

of blue broadcloth

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

embroidered with yellow

silk,

and most of them have in

addition, a wall trestle-board where the are kept set in the

to their exact place

movable planets

from day

to day, as

Grand Temple

Those who make an exact science of

this

are

art,

thus enabled to better determine the effect of a given combination of cards under certain planets, by knowing exact-

where those planets are

make

this

book useful

trological

But our aim

at the time.

to others besides those versed in as-

and astronomical science; so we say that

all

these accessories, although useful to the expert, can be

dispensed with by the amateur astral card reader. PILING THE EMBLEMS. 10th.

When

the 7 planetary ruling cards are drawn and

recorded by C, as heretofore directed, he must take them

from the sun, or center, and place them upon the

pile

of cards in the house or division of the Zodiac containing

then

lifts

that entire pile and places

upon another, where he

feels

impressed to place

his it

hirtli

month.

continues

this

until

all

the

cards

are

it.

one

pile

(always faces down) which he places upon the sun. 11th.

book

B now

holds the time and directs

at the exact beginning of a minute

difference what minute of the hour first

this

makes no if

the

second cutting must be on an even minute

same time

piece.

seconds and minutes is

and

except that

cutting was on an even minute of time by the time piece

used,

it is,

to cut the

minutes or

solar time.

the watch keeps correct

makes no difference whether

hours out of

the

If the first cut, that

way on standard

the cut in preparing

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. the packs as directed in section

an odd

started at

2, is

minute the one mentioned herein must be on an odd one.

C cuts three times

12th.

the time interval

half

just

impressed to ask

intervals

of ten

used before.

to shuffle the

book before

feels

this last

he should inform C; in which case

triple cut

seconds,

should

take the book entirely up from the table and shuffle

hand

until

gives the time to start the cutting as per

section eleven.

You may assure

why

not think

you that

it is.

care

important; but

corresponding to the

first

are of the greatest value,

matter whether you understand

The time elements and

or not.

all this

the triplex cut

or triplex deal of the quadrature

and a careful observance of these

small particulars has been the basis of the writer's success in the occult demonstrations with the Mystic Test Book.

have heard a careless student remark " what

15 seconds, that they should

you know,

moved

friends,

how

far

amount this

ball

and

has,

the

same

upon has

live

has moved

twenty-five miles in its

time,

angle accordingly, relative to the sun. at the

10 or

anything

in that little time of 15 seconds ?

ahead more than two hundred and orbit

changed

its

polar

Its axial rotation

equator has been about four miles during that

little

But we are now ready

insignificant quarter of a minute. for the next step.

QUADRATION OF THE TEST BOdK. 13th.

takes

the book

hand and removes the

three top cards, without disturbing the order in which

they come, and places them in the

first

or heart quarter of

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

the Zodiac.

The next three he

in the club

quarter,

places in the same

then three in

three in the spade quarter, and so on, until

cards are piled in the quarters.

manner

the diamond and all

but four

These four cards are

placed singly around the four quarters.

EXPLANATION OF THIS DEAL.

The

three cards to each quarter, at the four

first

rounds,

are emblematic of the three houses in each quarter of the

Three times four making twelve, the

Celestial Circle.

months

in a year

and the number of cards in each

When

before the last four are placed thereon. is

pile

the deal

finished there are thirteen cards in each quarter; the

thirteen being the figure of knowledge

and equal

to the

parts of the Zodiac, namely the twelve houses and the sun or center.

THE SINGLE QUADEATE. 14th.

B now piles the cards upon the first quarter,or heart

quarter, in the order of the

months and signs and makes

deal of one card at a time from the top of the book around

and around the Zodiac from the

first

quarter until he

has thirteen cards again piled in each quarter the deal must end at the spade quarter, or in the deal in

15th.

course,

shows an error

some manner.

Gather the emblems on to the heart quarter

and have them cut twice,

five

pile,

seconds apart.

LAYING THE GEAND SPEEAD. 16th.

To perform

and begins

this work,

takes the book in

hand

the top and lays off the cards one by

one, face up, beginning at the right

hand end

of the table,

one card space from that end, until he has

laid

seven

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. when he begins again

cards;

and off

starts the next

at the side nearest himself

row and proceeds thus until he has

laid

7 rows, one for each of the 7 planets.

then deals the next card to the right hand end

opposite the 8d perpendicular row, the next beyond

and

next beyond that, thus ending the spread.

row are the

This last short sun cards " so called, because they do not rule

under any of the planets.

a succeeding page will be found a quadratic grand

spread from a " natural order," or what Test Book.

Pile the cards

called Solar

from the ace of hearts to

the king of spades, face up, turn the book over and

quadrate

as heretofore directed.

in the preceding

the aspect

This

and

shown what

sections

as instructed

and the lay-out

will present

in illustration.

called

independent solar spread,"

devoid of personal or magnetic qualities and wholly

But the quadrate has thrown the

arbitrary in formation.

emblems

into their respective planetary places, relative to

abstract position, in the tion

Spread

was a magnetic one.

The grand spread

same manner So

it is

worthy

now ready

the forma-

of study.

for

reading

and

delineating.

This

the most important part of

right here before

who

all,

wish to say

going any farther, that any person

expects or supposes that he or she can master the

intricate art

emblem

delineation in a few hours, a

few days or even in a few months, or her

mind upon

Such

the

may

as well change his

the subject at once.

infinite variety of the

combinations and

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. interpretations constantly

and

powers

intuitive

needed

are

give the correct

have taken the utmost pains to make them

this work, I

and

coming up, that great judgment

In the lay-outs and tables of definitions used in

meanings.

clear

easily understood, but I constantly realize

letters received daily that a large

try to understand.

They seem

number

from

of people do not

to hate to think,

and therefore

ask a hundred questions regarding matters that are before

them

in print,

have had dozens, yes hundreds of

letters

covering page after page of manuscript, written by people

who admit

that

they have " Temple Lectures, or the

Religion of the Stars," and our O. O. M. paper, as well as bulletins,

this

work?" and so on ad

down and pour

sit

"Do

they ask ""are ladies admitted?"

yet

you believe in evolution?" out

How came

pages

to 35

to get into

Some good

infinitum.

you

souls

foolscap

manuscript giving their private views on such subjects as re-incarnation, evolution of the soul, astral so

on through

all

magnetism and

the subjects treated upon by

lectures.

Now, my feelings

dear good friends, while I appreciate the kind actuate most of you in this, I beg you to

that

remember that

a very busy

man,

time

exceed-

ingly valuable, compared with most people's, and further-

more, that your private views are useless to me.

have to say

or as little of like

or hate

treated, give if

in print. as it,

them

Read

you are if

it,

able.

digest It

it,

and make

What as

much

matters not whether you

you have any views upon the subjects

to the world in print.

I assure

you that

they are worth considering, editors will gladly print them.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

Pray excuse or

want

this digression,

to complain,

and

friends; I do not complain

acknowledge the receipt of thous-

ands of such good, kind and appreciative letters as would

expand the heart of any one.

But I

foresee that the publi-

cation of this book will bring forth a host of questions unless I

warn the public that

some particular points

If I find that

stood,

and

I shall issue

cannot answer them personally.

are not generally under-

them more

possible to elucidate

perfectly,

a printed bulletin containing the explanations.

Before going on with the directions for reading,

will

be well perhaps to give instructions for finding the card of

day and the birth card, for these cards frequently have an important bearing upon the delineations of the astral spread.

The mode

of finding the day card or birth card

precisely

the same, for the day card ruling upon any particular date the birth card of any person born at that time.

has a part to play say, a type or

all

through the

emblem

life,

as it

of the effects of the

is,

one might

magnetism of the

earth and planets at the time of the person's birth.

the signs and letters X,

This card

What

and Z are to algebra, the symbols

composing the Mystic Test Book are to our

astral calcular

tions.

"test

"our work

every point.

The

writer

dis-

covered the error in the tables of Herschel and other astronomers, as to the motion of Jupiter, through the failure of the accepted tables to bring that planet to the point where his magnetic effect

would correspond to that found by

ual trial with the Test

Book

in 1887.

The

tables of

of each planet were then tested separately

used in our books, as an error in

act-

motion

before being

such expensive works

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK would have been serious indeed.

The other planetary

We have

of motion were correct.

in this

set of tables that are so correct, that

tables

Grand Temple a

one hundred years

motion of any planet, carried back by the law of multiple cycles, will not vary one second of arc in all that

There are only two

such tables in existence and they

sets of

cost almost an infinite

long period.

amount

labor to calculate and

record.

Upon page 63 ing cards of time.

will be

found a

In the

left

plate,

hand column

figures indicating the tens, while the top

numbers composing the

units of the

showing the are a

row

rul-

row of

indicates the

spirit of the

powers

tables give the numerical powers

of the

used.

The following

They

planets according to the latest data.

from the tables published by intelligence can

Lillie,

difEer slightly

being as correct as

human

make them.

ASTRAL POWERS OF THE MONTHS. 491281

Jan., 161623

Jul.,

Feb., 266485

Aug., 324824

Mar., 334149

Sep., 358658

Apr., 498658

Oct.,

May, 597719

Nov., 217412

Jun., 693378

Dec, 188169

227944

RULE FOB FINDING DAY OR BIRTH CARDS. This

a very simple mathematical operation.

Take, the astral power of the month.

The

astral

power

Add them Find the the card

together.

spirit of the

ruling:.

of the day.

sum, which indicates in the

table^

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK

EXAMPLE FOE PEACTICE. Find what card rules on the 28d day Astral power for July Astral power for 23d

of July.

491281

386139

877420

The

spirit of this last

number

See directions for

is 13.

finding spirits of numbers.

This indicates row No.

day

cards,

many

which

3d card from the

the five of clubs.

emblems

rules for finding

left in

This

the plate

only one

of various divisions

of time.

ASTKAL POWERS OF THE DAYS. 1,

2, 3,

4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

10, 11,

157741 213144 256888

12,

358942 461973 533819 616519 656370 722465 881872 719547

15,

13, 14,

16,

17, 18,

19,

20, 21,

22,

622346 491125 361848 236459 186886 169389 154727 221875 233538 274361 376420

386139 468758 683569 524160 362807 269494 246165 198536 163543

23, 24,

25,

26, 27, 28, 29,

30, 31,

POSITION OF THE BIKTH CAED.

grand

spread,

from one person's magnetism,

that person's birth card occupies a position in the spread

where

the

strongest

and

nearest

ejects

concentrate.

Therefore the emblem reader should notice particularly the position of the birth card, and, for the purpose of avoiding error, it

piece of

well in practice, to lay a counter or a small

money upon

that card to designate

it.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

64 If

card

this

tions around

thing recent.

in the past,

shows that the indica-

for a distance of 2 cards, point to

If in the future part of the spread,

to come soon. But shown near the birth card apply

something

the

person's lives connected with C's, just the

doubly,

indicate

and those near

while the

and

to other

same

as if

So emblems

was not in that quarter.

C's birth card

some-

shows

indications

personally,

general indications point to the usual events

frequently

showing events long past

hand simultaneously,

as well as those far

in the future, co-ordinating with the present.

When

the birth card comes in the exact center of

"sun

the lay-out, where the

Jupiter,

an excellent

line" crosses the line of

indication

and shows that

the planetary influences are well in balance and pre-

good

dicts

But

fortune.

the

nature

this

good

fortune depends upon the nature of the birth card. this is a "

power

and power.

card " it indicates well-balanced strength it

a nine,

come his disappointment. Approximate positions

shows that C

will over-

center of lay-out are pro-

portionately fortunate.

THE MYSTIC This

considered an important factor, and indicates

some hidden thing in C's

upon

CROSS.

life.

the direction of the cross

But the nature depends and whether the greater

portion comes under Saturn or the minor planets, Mars,

Mercury and Venus.

THE HORIZONTAL CROSS OF MARS. This cross

shown

in face cards in order to

make

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. it

conspicuous,

usually nearly

all

and

crosses

all

kinds

are

But they frequently

in court cards.

occur in colors.

For instance, the cross may be pletely surrounded

year a

by black ones, or

lady had an " eight

come with

its

When

vice versa.

I delineated

and admitted the

in red cards

emblem'''' cross all

upright under Saturn.

very exceptional. into tears

all

cross

Of it

com-

Once in

course, this to

was only

her

last

hearts,

slie

was

burst

too true in

its

signification.

Crosses

may

occur in

all sorts

of positions with indica-

tions according to the planets in the cross.

or less cards in the cross.

There may be

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

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The reason these forms are called " Mystic " Crosses, is

because they show evidences of "mind force" back

of the work.

intellectuality

present.

some outside power, acting within

the

law,

That

is,

that

however,

present and acting upon the person.

scientist,

upon investigating these mysterious

forces some two or three years ago, suggested that

peculiarity might be accounted for under

this

the so-called " laws

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. of chance,'' we, together, find, if possible, that

made

elaborate calculations, to

such was the case.

grand spreads within twelve hours,

strictly

made seven

on time, and

found three crosses, two solid squares and a perfect triangle in

court

cards,

besides

number

minor mystic

combinations.

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Ci '

« « « «

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PERPENDICULAR CROSS

IN"

HEARTS.

then calculated that the chances upon such a

series of

events transpiring in a " world of chance," were about one to 375,000,000,

So a person might spread lay-outs

all his lifd

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

long, day and niglit, without a ghost of a chance to

But our proof

such manifestations of law.

law and

intellectuality combined,

make

of the action of

upon everything

in nature,

including the Mystic Test Book, does not rest upon such evi-

dence as this alone, fortunately.

The sample

spreads in this

work

are purposely freed

from

mystic symbols, being simply the result of time and planetary laws.

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HORIZONTAL GREEK CROSS IN COURT CARDS.

The reason

for this

is,

that the

emblems have general

positions at certain times, called culminations,

which apply

to the general characteristics of all persons.

That

emblems ruling with

is,

the

at a certain time in certain given

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. positions, will rule with

another certain time.

There

but one way to find which spread in this work gives this general position, and that

is,

bj finding what spread has a

ruling sun card, the same as the one in the spread under consideration occupying directly under the

the

same

i)osition.

sun in the short row

This position

KULE FOK FISTDIlirG THE LAY-OUT. Take the sun card in table spread. Set down the suit value. Put under it the spot Put under this the number 7.

Add Add

all

together.

sum by

Multiply the

to the product, the

number

at the top.

value.

61.

This gives the page of the book where that sun card rules

under the sun.

In the grand spread thus found, the emblems are in their

normal position

relative to their planetary effects at the time.

You can then

readily determine

table

where the variations from the normal are

spread,

greater or

less.

by a comparison with the

For instance; suppose the normal position

of the ten of diamonds, under the ruling, is under Jupiter.

But, in the table spread

it is

under Saturn.

confidently predict that a pecuniary success

come

to the person

under the normal

You can then which should

effects of the planets

has been counteracted by environments.

Ordinary emblem readers do not usually go into these calculations, being guided a great deal

finer

by intuition, but

wish to give these directions for the benefit of students who wish to

make

When

a deep study of the subject.

the spread

completed,

usual to designate the

planetary cards drawn by the person, by turning them at right angles to their former positions.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

CUT SHOWING TUKJSTED CARDS. r:

o 9g9 o

o The

10 h and 10 c being the drawn cards.

The

pair of

tens with an ace between constitute a pair of "mystic bars,"

They

as they are called.

are quite often seen in spreads and

have occult meanings in accordance with the characteristics of the cards forming the bars.

The

cards thus turned in

the spread are called " significators," as they of

many

what they would be

things.

affect the

In the

first

are significant

power

place they are double in

not drawn cards.

Secondly, they

combinations connected with them in immediate

contact.

GENERAL LINES OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT. Independent of the individual definitions of the

cards, the

reader should look particularly after the lines of light and

dark as they have a particular signification apart from the

The dark cards

suits or spot values.

in one's

life.

The

indicate the darkness

red cards (originally white, in ancient

times) indicate the light or happy portions.

you

In some

will trace these lines of red diagonally across

cury in the past, up to Neptune in the future. the case,

indicates thiit

did, for

many

lives

from Mer-

When

this

years, find his hap-

piness under the planets of love and passion.

Later, military

and pecuniary feelings swayed him, or perhaps athletic exercises,

boating, fishing,

etc., as

Mars

rules matters appertain-

ing to power and strength in the physical. Later, he has his pleasure in spiritual unfoldment culture.

and soul

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. If

travel

reaches Lito Neptune, he will take great delight in

and sight seeing.

reaching through the

Dark bands covering diagonal

(perpendicular lines) indicate

life lines

an antagonistic influence running

all

through C's

life.

Isolated patches of dark or light, cut oÂŁE entirely

emblems

of the

same

lines

from

all

color, are very interesting.

remarkable case of this kind came up in a reading given

to a stranger in 1891,

that I

made

by the author.

was so remarkable

a record of the part containing the "island of

light " as I term such positions.

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I delineated it as a beautiful,

tented spot in his past

life,

happy, successful and con-

that was preceded and surrounded

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upon the

all sides

But

bj darkness, trouble and disappointment.

4d and 7d reaching up

to the middle or present life line

indicated that this bright spot in his life

was

drawing to

just

a close.

When

had

his

life.

little

the

finished

quietly explained

how

The student

emblems had

life

much information

and surroundings.

For the purpose of convenience, the in this

work

illustrated

advised to look particularly for these

points and indicators, as they afford

regarding the person's

gentleman

delineation, the

exactly the

tables of indications

are placed opposite the plate containing the

grand spread, where the card defined rules as a sun card. If the student will learn thoroughly the

solar natural

book runs, he can very soon

way

m which the

find the page con-

taining the definitions of any particular card wanted with-

The

out reference to the page or rule for finding same. is

given, only because other spreads

same cards under the sun. HEARTS:

The

the book with

are in

But the defining

52 in number and consecutively arranged.

DIAMONDS:

CLUBS:

rule

tables are just

The

suits

run

SPADES.

spots under each suit run in regular order

from ace

to king.

The

definitions given are not intended to be inflexibly cor-

rect or unchangeable.

Such

the almost infinite

of combinations of the 52 emblems, that foresee and record

the delineator

ment

all

it is

the various meanings.

must bear

number

impossible to Besides this,

mind that the personal environ-

of the person represented in the spread has

with meanings of the emblems.

much

For instance; a 9 of

monds following a seven under Saturn,

dia-

or with a 7 of dia-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. under Jupiter in the same

raoiids

man

a loss of a large

the same

sum

proportionate "

life line,

indicates for a rich

man

of money, but a poor luck," so-called,

ill

with

might only

lose

In the same manner, the environment of

a few dollars.

marriage makes an immense difference in the meanings of

Where

the emblems.

the

8h and 4h

followed by the

under Venus, indicates an engagement and marriage for

smgle persons,

indicates spiritual advancement, union of

contentment of heart and

forces,

It is confidently asserted

no single "environment"

soul, for the married.

by the Mystic Brotherhood, that

exists, that so

completely changes

the magnetic respondences of individuals as that of marriage.

This

the secret of

for the better

why it

is,

that some people are changed

and some for the worse by

this union.

Per-

haps the very planetary influences that were favorable to you

when

single

became adverse

soon as you were united to

another being. I believe the

time will come,

when

these forces will be

taken into consideration before marriage, instead of after^

and many unhappy alliances obviated thereby. Before going on with the tables of indications I wish to say a few words regarding the time and receiving First.

in the full

emblem

manner

of giving or

readings.

No person

should ever attempt more than one spread

same day. There are certain magnetic forces used in the

work, which become changed or exhausted so that a sec-

ond spread for that person That

is,

will

carried through.

I do not

should delineate

for others,

give but partial results. first

one given

mean by

this, that

always providing that the

more than once,

correctly

no person

but, that he

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

should not attempt to read for himself but once in a day.

Some persons

are so constituted that once a

week

fully

often enough.

Second

The manner

of going about

One who wishes

it.

correct results, should go about the preparation of the book

same

in the

careful, painstaking,

and

one might almost

say "devout "frame of mind that the churchman experiences

when opening that occult idle

the book he regards as sacred.

emblems very

have noticed

rarely have anything to give to the

and curious seekers after sensations.

The power back

of the Mystic Test

Book knows well the

meaning of the expression once used by a teacher time, relative to "pearls " It is

and certain domestic animals.

not expected that every owner of this book

become an expert card reader

Grand Temple

initiate of the

astronomer.

Some

in olden

any more than that every

;

become an astrologer and

will

Some can comprehend but

will think that

little at

the best.

a hurried glance at these pages, in

the intervals of business, ought to give

they seek, or else the whole thing will fail to get

Avill

what they

seek;

them the knowledge

humbug.

and

But

all

such

cannot be helped.

Those who seek for light and wish to know the secret and order of the universe, must

make

a regular and careful study

as far as their other duties will permit, or they will

accom-

plish but little.

We shall now proceed tions, leaving the other

to give the lay-outs

and card

matters to come after.

In order, however, that the student

may have

directions summarized within a small compass

here a review.

defini-

the entire I will give

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

A RECAPITULATION OF WORK. 1.

Arrangement of cloth npon

Tablet and pencil for recording cards.

shuffles the

table.

book one minute.

keeping account of the time.

cuts 3 times at intervals of 20 seconds, starting on

any even minute selected by B. 6.

cuts the book into 7 piles, as

fully explained

in former sections. 7.

selects

one card from each

pile

under rules given

heretofore. 8.

C makes

a careful record of the 7 cards and places

them upon the 9.

sun.

places sun pile

on any chosen

cards as directed heretofore. 10.

C cuts

pile

and

piles all the

(See page 54.)

8 times as directed in Sec. 12, 10 seconds apart,

on even time

14.

B B B B

15.

Turn the

11.

12. 13.

quadrates the book as directed in See's 13 and 14. gathers the emblems and C cuts twice, 5 sec. apart. spreads the grand lay out. finds the ruling

See Sec.

16.

grand spread in order

determine

the general effect of the time.

16.

7 planetary cards.

Delineate as instructed in the following tables oE effects.

Page 76

starts the

department of card emblems, definitions

and quadratic lay-outs which cover one hundred and four pages of this work.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

10.

44722.

MERCURY. A

warm love. Longing for affection from opsex. News from a friend near at hand. A tele-

wish for posite

gram

or telephone message.

VENUS.

love letter.

Proposal of marriage by

party.

Invitation to

letter of friendship.

and

love, friendship

affection.

wish for desire for harmony. letter.

MARS.

A wish

to be of help to a

strong

friend.

News

of a friend in

Desire to stand well with some person of

trouble.

mind and

disposition.

JUPITER. an unselfish use. Wish to help Letter from a friend regarding some pecuniary favor. A telegram regarding money.

Desire for

money

for

friends pecuniarily.

SATURN. Wish

to help

afflicted.

some friend in

News

sickness.

Desire to aid the

of the sickness of a friend.

announcing the death

Letter

of a friend.

URANUS. Wish

to obtain

employment

of a friendly person.

wish regarding labor of some kind.

Wish

Strong for

and

love of the occult.

NEPTUNE. Wish

go upon a journey of friendship. Longing to Love of the unseen things of nature. Longing for message from a distance. to

travel with a friend.

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

20.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

3G623.

MERCURY. A sudden

passion for one of the opposite sex.

old friend unexpectedly.

Meeting an

friendly offer or proposal.

Invitation to a party.

VENUS. Meeting of dear friends or lovers. Q h, 21i, Jh indicate an engagement of marriage. 8h a wedding. A union of hearts.

MARS. Meeting of

by a coolness or quarrel. Soon Followed by a Jack, from a male friend.

lovers, followed

ended, however, and

indicating a visit

all is serene.

JUPITER.

Two

old friends meet. visit

from a

happy

If a

lady.

visit

King

soon ended.

Knave

2 h, Qli

a visit from

a gentleman.

SATURN. Visit to a sick friend.

If 7

2 h a meeting at a funeral.

2h, 8 c influence from an unseen friend. an ace, a letter from a friend who is ill.

Followed by

URANUS. Union in labor. Work with a Engagement to labor. A bargain between two With ace of hearts, a letter regarding work.

Co-partnership in labor. friend.

persons.

NEPTUNE. Meeting of friends after a long journey. Letter from a 2h, Ih a love letter. Between J-J young distance.

men

or sailors meet.

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

30.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

15645.

MERCURY. Indecision of

mind regarding

or matrimony.

love

Two

Perplexity regarding your friends.

lovers at one time.

Indecision regarding a

visit.

VENUS. Two

lovers at once.

Indecision regarding love.

as to attending a

place of

amusement

Indecision

or instruction.

Perplexity of the heart.

MARS.

Trouble to make up your

proposal of marriage perplexes.

mind.

Two

friends quarrel regarding something con-

nected with yourself.

JUPITER. Perplexity regarding a

you esteem or

love.

money matter connected with one

Two ways open

at once.

Help to a

friend, regretted afterwards.

SATURN. Trouble and concern, worry and indecision, caused by illness Wish to leave home but can not of self or friends.

so.

URANUS. Trouble and perplexity with work. Two jobs pressing at Two roads open to you and you know not which once. to take.

NEPTUNE. at once.

a. Jack,

Wish

to be in

two places

Perplexing trouble at a distance.

Followed

Indecision relative to a journey.

man you

trust causes

it.

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

9 9

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

40.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

6 6

54526.

MERCURY. Satisfaction

new

and

success

love.

Pleasure

Sudden and unexpected happiness. ure and happiness at home. friends.

making Pleas-

VENUS. Contentment with friendship and love. Satisfaction in love and a happy home. 4h, 8 c, 10 h satisfaction and success in unseen friends

and

injluences.

MARS. with person of same through law, if law-suit is

Satisfaction in friendly conversation sex.

Satisfaction gained

shown

elsewhere.

JUPITER. Satisfaction in costly furniture.

home. Love of your new work.

In fine dresses and a

fine surroundings.

lOh,

fine

a love for

4h, 10 d pleasure in money making.

SATURN. Recovery from illness by self or friends. Satisfaction with visits of unseen friends. Pleasure derived from kindness to the sick.

URANUS. Satisfaction

your employment.

garding labor of some kind.

Kindness of a friend reHappiness in working for

others.

NEPTUNE. by water and land. Good lack in A visit fishing or anything connected with the water. of pleasant friends from afar.

Satisfaction

in travel

GEAND SPEEAD,

^ 9

SOLAE.

6 6

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QUADEATED TO TIME.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

9 9 6 6

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

50.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

32333.

MERCURY. Sudden change in life. C-hange in feelings. Removal of home somewhat unexpected. Short journey to home of friends.

VENUS. Change

Parting from friends.

in love or friendship.

ney to another

city

town,

K h,

5 h,

Jourdivorce

or separation.

MARS. Parting from male friends. A journey with a male. Removal for reasons connected with some man. Change of feelings towards a

man.

JUPITER.

business journey. a near relative.

Change

in circumstances of a friend or

5 h, 1

2 c news of a change comes by

letter.

SATURN, Change

by sickness of friends. 7 s, h death is the cause of the change. Journey caused by ill health.

of surroundings caused 5

URANUS. Journey by land. Change of residence. Removal of home and business. Visit of friends from a distance. With an ace, a letter.

NEPTUNE. Journey by water. Change of home or removal to a place near a body of water. A change connected with transportation and travel.

9 c? ^ ^ 6

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

9 9 9 9 a> 6

60.

43593.

MERCURY. Even temper and dispassionate qualities. Smooth running life. But few changes. Contra-indicates the five of hearts under same planet.

VENUS. Love and friendship I'unning smoothly and without much variety. Married happiness. Contentment for a season.

MARS. Monotony cases

of life this

and male forces or strength. In some indicates a long engagement of

emblem

marriage.

JUPITER. Monotony

or long continuation of existing pecuniar}^ affairs.

If a co-partnership

Slow moving

shown,

will be

long continued.

life.

SATURN. Sickness of friends or relatives or any other condition under

Saturn remains the same.

Change,

any, slight under

this ruling.

URANUS. Matters appertaining to real estate. One's labor, home and friends remain in a monotonous condition for some time.

NEPTUNE. Contra-indicates

journeys

dinating therewith. the indication

under

same planet

If business of person

reversed.

or is

co-or-

traveling

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

70.

ASTKAL NUMBER,

6 a

13138.

MERCURY. A

sudden and generally an unexpected trouble, soon past.

Sudden cooling of a friendship.

fever

short

duration.

VENUS. An

unfaithful

friend

a friend.

or lover.

heart ache caused by

trouble easily overcome.

Illness of

some

friend.

MARS.

broken marriage engagement in some that

lasts

some weeks.

friend

cases.

trouble

lawsuit.

JUPITER. A friend in some

Loss through a friend. Anxiety caused by money trouble.

pecuniary trouble. Illness caused

anxiety.

SATURN. Illness caused

by overwork.

Illness of

deep and lasting trouble,

some dear friend. A Concealment of a

secret.

bodily infirmity.

URANUS.

warning to be cautious.

Trouble with labor.

a Queen,

it is

Use

A psychic experience.

dealings with a friend.

care in If with

with a lady.

NEPTUNE. Trouble

connected

friend.

Inability

certain journey.

Avith

a self

journey. or

new

Parting friend

from

make a

GRAND SPREAD, SOLAR.

6 6 6 d

QUADRATED TO

TIME. o

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

80.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

63147.

MERCURY. Sadden power, soon expended. Opera and dancing parties. Gathering of friends and societies. Power and develop-

ment

of love.

VENUS. Social

and

religious gatherings.

development.

Spiritual force,

Advancement

in soul force.

power and Increase in

friendship and love.

MAKS. Gatherings or meetings where males predominate. Will force.

power.

music

Martial

music.

Parties

Strong where

by brass bands.

JUPITER. Meetings of friends or fraternal Consideration

financial

societies.

Financial power.

questions.

Strength

power of expression.

SATURN. and meetings for psychic investigation. Physicians meetings or societies of like nature. Power in over-

Circles

coming

disease.

URANUS. Friends working together. Labor of love. Spiritual development and power. Psychic force in conjunction

with friends.

NEPTUNE. Boating parties. Excursions by water. Power in line of something connected with travel. With 1 h and 2 h, good news from afar.

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAK VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

9. 1.

11471.

MERCURY.

A sudden disappointment soon over and gone.

Overturning

of plans by the action of a trusted friend or employee.

A love disappointment. VENUS. Disappointment in love. Disappointment in some friend. A heart longing unsatisfied. A misunderstanding. Disaprobation with the conduct of a friend.

MARS.

lovers'

male

misunderstanding. friend.

Disappointment caused by a

Jealousy of another person.

Injury to a

friend or relative.

JUPITER. Disappointment of strong

Loss of time in pursuit of love.

hopes connected with pecuniary

affairs of self or

near

friends.

SATURN. Misfortune, trouble and disappointment caused by either

imprudence, jealousy, lovers' quarrel or

illness of self or

friends.

URANUS. Want

of success in your labors.

Disappointment connected

with your work.

disappoints you in

some work.

labor of love.

friend or relative

NEPTUNE.

fruitless journey.

Disappointment regarding a

some cases regarding a journey. pointing visit from a distance.

friends, or in

visit to

disap-

GRAND SPREAD, SOLAR.

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9 V V 9 ^

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9 V

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

10.

SPIRIT VALUE,

11.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

65418.

MERCURY.

sudden success. Success in love and friendship. Rapid gaining of friends. Strong affection. If with a Queen, success of a lady friend.

VENUS. Success, triumph successful

and happiness in friendship and love. A affair. True love from one of the

love

opposite sex for yourself.

MARS. Reunion of old friends. Success in In some cases triumphs of a

a friendly negotiation. friend,

some a law

case.

JUPITER. Power, success, triumph and happiness. Strength of love and friendship. Help and confidence of friends. Business success based on friendly influences.

SATURN, Power over

sicKness, sorrow, death, trouble, disappointment, machinations of enemies, scandals and heartburnings.

Overcoming or

evil influences.

URANUS. Power, success, and good results flowing from your efforts connected with labor and business affairs. Overcoming of some bad influence, by psychic power.

NEPTUNE. Success in a journey.

Success in fishing, boating or any-

thing connected with the water. illness

caused by dampness.

Recovery from any

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

11.

21.

27268.

MERCURY.

A lover

or very close friend.

young man.

may

affectionate

A friend in sudden need.

and impulsive

In some cases

indicate a son or brother.

VENUS.

A warm

friend or lover.

A kind-hearted

young man.

amiable gentleman and a true friend.

young

Sometimes a

relative.

MARS. An

amiable and good-hearted young man. married in some cases.

to be

spiritual

Strong feelings.

nature.

Engaged

Deeply religious or

JUPITER. kind friend, a man who is of assistance to you pecuniary way. A man of strong affection and

in a

soul

powers.

SATURN.

A good

conscientious and true-hearted man, but in trouble and overcome by bad influences. In some cases ill

health

the cause.

URANUS.

kind-hearted and industrious helpful.

usually

Sometimes a young

young man.

strong

Friendly and

psychic

powers.

lover.

NEPTUNE.

A gentleman

of experience,

of the world.

who has

traveled and seen

A lover who has traveled

and traveling men are represented by

much.

this card.

much

Sailors

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

SOLAR VALUE,

12.

SPIRIT VALUE,

31.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

44516.

MERCURY.

merry, light-hearted maiden,

flighty,

who

loves parties

Sometimes indicates a female

picnics, balls, etc.

flirt.

In other cases a sweetheart.

VENUS.

warm-hearted, loving, faithful woman. Disposition of kindness and self-sacrifice. An affectionate sweetheart.

MARS.

warm-hearted wife or mother. Lady who has some male characteristics regarding business matters. Sometimes a strong and healthy young girl.

faithful,

JUPITER.

warm-hearted lady of some pecuniary ability and power. A good friend. If matched or co-ordinated with a King, she

married.

SATURN. An

affectionate

industrious, good and faithful

warm-hearted widow lady. lu some eases a divorced woman, but not through her own fault. Usually, unless contra-indicated, in poor health.

and

URANUS. sister or friend only.

May

woman.

loving mother.

be wife,

Gentle disposi-

tion and strong psychic powers sometimes.

NEPTUNE.

good-natured and kindly disposed lady a

great

general.

who

good talker. Loves Sometimes rather visionary.

deal.

has traveled

humanity

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MERCURY.

Quick witted but good tempered and kindly dispositioned. A friend to

middle-aged or elderly gentleman. you.

VENUS.

kindly, warm-hearted man. A good some cases a near relative by blood or kind and affectionate husband.

mild mannered, friend,

or in

marriage.

MARS.

good-hearted man. talker

and reasoner.

but soon over

it.

Usually a married man. A great Sometimes a little quick in temper,

An old military man JUPITER.

some

cases.

A professional man or merchant of much power and force character. A friend to you. A man of much power

of in

gaining friends.

SATURN. A

good,

kindly

dispositioned

physician, or in

friend,

some manner

who

usually

associated with sickness

Strong psychic powers under Saturn.

and death.

URANUS. A

who

good-hearted, hard working man, for the benefit of others. forces about

him and

Avith

has always worked

has powe^-ful psychic

him.

NEPTUNE. A

kind-hearted

man who has

story teller. sailor.

Sometimes

traveled a great deal. this

card

indicates

great

old

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14.

SPIRIT VALUE,

51.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

44731.

MERCURY. A

wish suddenly formed. letter containing a

aspiration for knowledge.

secret.

piece

news from

A j?

short distance.

VENUS. Letter,

when

in conjunction with deuces.

A wish gratified.

edge.

Good news

love cf

knowk

in a letter.

tele-

gram with good news.

MARS. Desire for

mucn knowledge.

occult communication. a gentleman,

when with

Inquisitiveness.

Love of power. a deuce.

JUPITER. may lead

Desire for knowledge that

Money

Desire for Letter from

or property possessions.

power (^ preferment.

With

2 or

indicates

a business proposition.

SATURN. Letter containing bad news, especially with 2

wish which will not be attainable.

gratified.

Bad news from

and

longing for the un-

a sick person.

URANUS.

knowledge regarding some kind of work. Aspirations for advancement in work. Hunger for

wish

for

occult manifestations.

NEPTUNE.

wish to gain knowledge and experience through travel. If followed by a 2 it indicates a letter from a distance. With Jh, news from a traveler far away.

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15.

SPIRIT VALUE,

61.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

36632.

MERCURY. Dispute with a hot-headed person. Sudden meeting with a person whom you have had dealings with. With the ace, it

means a

letter or telegram.

VENUS. Joining in study, oÂŁ two persons' Information regarding a subject of study. Introduction

Unions to

of acquaintances.

an intelligent lady.

MARS. Interview with a gentleman of business. reporter.

Interview with a

dispute between two males.

some

lawsuit, under

quarrel or

aspects.

JUPITER. Interview with a gentleman on pecuniary or business

A business

proposition.

affair.

Introduction to business man.

Joinings and co-partnerships.

SATURN. Interview with a physician or lawyer.

person

who

ill.

Conversation with a

quarrel, under

some

aspects.

bargain with a professional man.

URANUS. Labor with a person not related job of work. to use

Dispute regarding a

to you.

Co-partnership in labor.

your knowledge for another's

proposition

benefit.

NEPTUNE. Introduction to a traveled person.

from another

place.

a personal card,

letter,

Study

witli

when with an

a person

ace.

news from person represented.

With

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SOLAR VALUE,

16.

SPIRIT VALUE,

71.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

16545.

MERCURY. Indecision relative to a short

journey.

same time. Undecided Two ways open to you.

places at the study.

Needed two

as to

two

lines of

VENUS. doubt in an affair of friendship with a lady. Undecided news or doubt regarding a lady friend. Two ways open at once.

Indecision

oru*

MARS. with a gentleman. Doubtful news. Knowledge of an undecided character. If followed by an ace, the news comes by letter.

Indecision

regarding

transaction

JUPITER. Knowledge regarding a doubt.

financial

Undecided

mind

transaction,

relative to a

held in

certain bar-

gain or proposition.

SATURN. Indecision, doubt and distrust as to the future, caused by bad

influences

ill

health.

Knowledge

of.

a doubtful

character from two places.

URANUS. Doubt and a state of unrest and indecision regarding some line of work or appertaining to a real estate transaction. Doubtful psychic experiences,

NEPTUNE. DoubtUneasy feeling regarding a

Indecision relating to a journey to some distance. ful

news from

far away.

distant transaction.

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81.

54211.

MERCURY. Happiness lasting but a short time. A pleasant companion or an interesting book in your company or possession for a short time only.

VENUS. Happy home forting

comfort and

life,

Knowledge

joy.

Enjoyment

nature.

of a

com-

mental

spiritual

privileges.

MARS. Pleasant and improving conversations with others, especially

gentlemen.

Happy married

roundings.

Good news from home.

life

or pleasant

home

sur-

JUPITER. Business contentment. Satisfactory

Satisfactory state of

knowledge

pecuniary

money

matters.

affairs.

Good

transaction of a financial character.

SATURN. Good news

from a person who

received

contented person, although in

Goodness and

ill

is ill.

health,

happy and

indicated.

virtue.

URANUS. Contentment with labor performed. Satisfaction regarding work done by others. Home life and enjoyment. With 10

a satisfactory real estate deal.

NEPTUNE.

A pleasant journey. to

something

Good news or knowledge appertaining at

with a traveler.

a distance.

Instructive conversation

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SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

18. 2.

32342.

MERCURY.

sudden and unexpected change of feelings. A change in knowledge and mentality. Sudden news received. Journey to place near by.

VENUS. Sudden change in friendship, which may be either way. Change of mind regarding a certain lady friend. The

company of an entertaining

friend.

MARS.

misunderstanding, causing a change in one's of opinion regarding a gentleman.

With

news of a change in

Change

life.

slight quarrel.

affairs.

JUPITER.

A change in

pecuniary

affairs.

of a debtor causes a

Change

in the circumstances

change in your calculations.

With

a ten, the change will be for the better.

SATURN. Change of plans caused by

ill

health of self or others.

Jour-

ney, or short trip, for health, or to see a sick friend.

Discontent.

URANUS.

A journey,

Change in one's home life. Sale Change in mental or psychic powers.

by land only.

of real estate.

Change

in knowledge, regarding real estate.

NEPTUNE.

long journey

News

over land

and water.

trip

by water.

or knowledge of events that are transpiring at

distance.

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19.

SPIRIT VALUE,

12.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

44736.

MERCURY. Unchangeableness or monotony, lasting for a few days only. RemainSteadfast confidence and esteem for friends. ing quiet at home.

VENUS. Uniform and unchanging

friendship.

Knowledge and surLack of news.

roundings remain the same as heretofore. Quiet monotony of

life.

MARS. Absence of trouble, quarrels and changes, affecting males principally. Study and improvement goes on steadily and uniformly.

JUPITER. Monotony

standstill,

business

Pecuniary

matters.

A lack

affairs

no matter whether good or bad.

news regarding a business transaction.

SATURN, Uniform health or the contrary, according to preceding conditions. Lack of change in the sick. With physicians this card indicates

uniformity in business.

URANUS. Unchangeableness in home roundings.

Monotony

life,

physical and mental sur-

in study

and

labor.

This card

neutralizes the 5 of clubs.

NEPTUNE. Contra-indicates journeys Lack of change under same or co-ordinate planets. Neutralizes a five under Mercury in same life line. relative to travel.

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SPIRIT VALUE,

22.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

15253.

MERCURY.

trouble that comes suddenly.

Inharmony

Bad news from a

distance.

your projects.

Opposition to

feelings.

obstacle to gaining knowledge.

VENUS. Unfulfilled hopes.

woman.

Some kind

of trouble or quarrel v/ith a

Opposition to some belief held by you.

rejected favor or request.

MARS.

Opposition from a male. in

quarrel or a lawsuit.

gaining certain knowledge.

Antagonism

Trouble to

your

wishes and projects.

JUPITER. Trouble on account of some business transaction. Bad news regarding f^ merchantile firm or corporation Antago-

nism from some business

firm.

SATURN.

Ill remarks regarding the person. by worry or overstiidy. Overthrowing of your plans for advancement in knowledge.

scandal.

Backbiting.

Illness caused

URANUS. Misinformation regarding a piece of work. job of work. Trouble regarding real

Trouble with a estate.

Antago-

nizing influences of a psychic nature.

NEPTUNE. Bad news from

Trouble with some matter at a important letter. Antagonizing influ-

far away.

distance.

ences, that

come from some one

far away.

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21.

SPIRIT VALUE,

32.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

63642.

MERCURY. Rapid gaining of knowledge. A rapid development. MeetÂť ings for purposes of advancement. Strength and courage. Overcoming of obstacles to advancement.

VENUS. Feminine

advancement in

favor

of gaining

Spiritual development or psychic

knowledge.

powers.

Represents

female schools or gatherings.

MARS. Debates.

Male strength and

and advancement.

poAver.

Psychic unfoldment

Represents male schools or gather-

ings sometimes, of men, for political or other purposes.

JUPITER. Councils and meetings for financial consideration of ques-

Power and knowledge, making scheme or business. tions.

applied to

some money

SATURN. Power

to overcome illness or trouble, through knowledge and development. Recovery of a friend who has been ill. Good news from a sick acquaintance.

URANUS. Meetings and gatherings of persons for the consideration of questions connected with labor. Power and knowledge of business or labor.

News

regarding real estate.

NEPTUNE. Knowledge of

matters connected

with

travel

Ability to succeed in such avocations as that head.

or water.

come under

Ite

|ft|iite

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22.

42.

24926.

MERCURY.

sudden disappointment and bad news. Knowledge of a dissatisfying nature. A sudden dislike. Discouragement caused by antagonism to you.

VENUS. Disappointment regarding a personal friend; usually a Disappointment in gaining female, under this planet. knowledge. Friendly antagonism to your projects.

MARS. some person or thing you are brought into contact with. In some cases a lawsuit. Disappointment caused by lack of knowledge.

Dislike, distaste, disbelief of

JUPITER. Discontent with one's pecuniary matters, that

affairs.

disappointing to you.

News With

money

7 d, loss of

property by the disappointment.

SATURN. Disappointment,

discontent

some disquieting feeling

caused by illness of self or some one connected with you.

Disappointment in gaining knowledge; caused by

illness.

URANUS. Disappointment connected with one's business or labor. In some cases a wish to change avocation. Psychic experience of a disappointing character.

NEPTUNE. Disappointment regarding a journey. Generally a long journey, all or partly by water. Discontent with resiThis card neutralizes the 10, of same suit. dence.

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SOLAR VALUE,

23.

SPIRIT VALUE,

q2.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

65751.

MERCURY.

A sudden

and sometimes unexpected

Success in gaining knoAvledge. 7 c or 9 c next to

success.

Good news.

This card neutralizes a

it.

VENUS. Success in uniting with others in

Success in friendship.

gaining some kind of knowledge or mental growth. Indicates or predicts good news.

MARS. Also in study at home. Applies more particularly to males, however. General success in

Success in .

married

life.

professional avocations.

JUPITER. Success and contentment in merchantile or business avoca-

Advanced knowledge in your business. through learning and mind force.

tions.

Success

SATURN. Strength, power and

success

against

the

evil

effects

Overcomes bad influences through knowledge of men and things.

Saturn.

URANUS. Contentment

in success, connected with labor.

real estate transaction.

Success in a

General success in agriculture

and kindred pursuits.

NEPTUNE. Success on the travel or

water.

some

Successful

affair at a distance.

knowledge relating to Indicates knowledge

necessary for success in traveling.

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SOLAK VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

24.

62.

27844.

MERCURY. A

quick-witted and intelligent rival

to the

With odd diamonds

young man.

In some

person.

cases

In some cases a a lawyer friend.

at each side, a business rival.

VENUS.

jealous

young man.

Represents one

sharp, bold eyed

man.

With

who

is full

life.

females, this card in-

dicates a suitor.

MARS.

quarrelsome man. persons â&#x20AC;˘

nearly

plotter against

connected with

you.

some person or Sometimes an

attorney at law.

JUPITER.

A man

who

making money through

his peculiar knoAvl-

edge regarding a certain line of business.

Sometimes

indicates a business rival.

SATURN. A

young man.

rather dissolute cases

7 c

Keeps

late hours.

and 8 c, a

In some

man you should beware of. studious young man who is in poor

indicates a

With health.

URANUS. An

industrious business.

aspects

young man who has a good knowledge of his In some cases a real estate dealer. In certain

represents an intelligent farmer.

NEPTUNE. A

In some cases a sailor, and full of fun. A young man who possesses knowledge of a wide range.

jolly rover. lively

traveling man.

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SOLAE.

TIME.

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124

SOLAR VALUE,

25.

SPIRIT VALUE,

72.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

43472.

MERCURY.

smart, lively lady, intelligent and qnick witted.

Loves

and plays. A rapid reader. Represents a possessing knowledge of an unusual character. parties

lady,

VENUS. An

accomplished lady, of strong religious or

intelligent,

Sometimes a beautiful singer or

psychic proclivities.

musician.

MARS.

A smart woman,

but rather quick tempered.

In some cases

she presents a rather masculine disposition or appearance.

lady of strong will force and power.

JUPITER.

A lady

of strong powers and force of character. one who makes her own way in the world.

Generally

business

woman.

SATURN, An

intelligent lady, but one

ness

and

who

has experienced

Sometimes

trouble.

indicates

much a

sick-

jealous

woman.

URANUS.

hard working, industrious lady, who brings knowledge to One who earns money for herself bear in her work. In some cases, a farmer's wife.

NEPTUNE.

traveled lady.

One who

has profited thereby, that

fits

much of the world and who possesses knowledge

has seen

her for a stirring

lady life.

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26.

SPIRIT VALUE,

82.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

43474

MERCURY.

quick tempered man.

Smart,

men

ried

lively

and witty man.

Kincjs generalhj represent mar-

Quick to grasp a point.

men of middle

or advanced age.

VENUS. A

kind-hearted and even tempered gentleman. w^lio

Represents a

man

Usually one

some learned

learned, or following

profession.

of middle age.

MARS.

loud talking overbearing man.

Sometimes a military man, or one who leads or commands. A smart, active office

holder or politician.

JUPITER.

intelligent

reasoner and powerful speaker.

"power.''

With diamonds

In some

Shows generally

cases a physician or lawyer.

man

strong, a merchant.

SATURN. Usually a physician, but one hard-hearted. old

who

not sympathetic.

Rather

Inclined to be cross and exacting.

gentleman who has been a learned man.

URANUS. One who has has

much

studied hard and read a great deal.

One who

intelligent

will

power and psychic

force.

worker.

old sailor or sea

NEPTUNE. captain. A smart

traveling man.

lover of out door sports, boating, fishing, etc. cases a learned

man from

a distant place.

In some

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27.

SPIRIT VALUE,

ASTRAL NUMBER,

MERCURY. make money rapidly. A

wish to garding pecuniary matters.

23113.

telegram or letter resudden aspiration con-

nected with money.

VENUS. Desire for

money

to be used for a kindly purpose.

do good with wealth.

Wish to With

Unselfish wish for wealth.

a ten^ the wish will be gratified.

MARS. Wish

for

from

in some way with the law. j^ssome branch of law. Money letter

money connected

piration to succeed in a

man.

JUPITER. Important message on business. large

business

transaction.

Wish, connected with a Strong aspiration for

success in business.

SATURN. Wish

to succeed,

which

destined to be disappointed, unless

strong indications point the other way.

gram regarding

illness of

Letter or tele-

some person.

URANUS. Wish

for chance to

earn money by labor.

Aspiration to

succeed in some work to be undertaken.

ing labor matters,

when

followed by a 2

Letter regards

or 2 d.

NEPTUNE. Message from a distance.

Wish

for success connected with

travel or business at a distance.

News from

far away.

wish for money to be used in making a journey.

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SOLAR.

TIME.

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SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

28. 13.

32848.

MERCURY.

suddenly

arrangement very unexpected pecuniary offer. telegram on business.

business

concludedi

business interview.

VENUS. Introduction to a lady of means.

wherein at least one party with a friend.

Business arrangement

a female.

Co-partnership

MARS. Pecuniary bargain with a

Consultation with a lawyer.

Union

male. ing.

letter

of business interests.

business meet-

regarding money.

JUPITER. Business

consultation.

Union

combination.

pecuniary

monied

co-partnership. interests.

Business

meeting.

SATURN. Interview with

dunning

With

A demand for money. A A bill. An unlucky pecuniary affair.

physician.

letter.

sevens of

any

suit,

bad news of some kind.

URANUS. Consultation regarding labor. terests.

nership.

Profitable union of labor in-

Business and labor combined.

A real

Labor

co-part-

estate transaction.

NEPTUNE. Consultation regarding a business journey. travel for another. ly

when followed by

Money from

Engagement

a distance, particular-

a 4 d or 10 d.

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29.

SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

O O

23.

16311.

MERCURY.

sudden indecision

Two

arrises

regarding a pecuniary matter.

business ways open at once.

insecurity.

Doubt and

feeling oÂŁ uneasy

distrust regarding business.

VENUS. Indecision relating to

money affairs and a money matter.

Regarding

lady.

a certain friend and a

Choice between

two propositions.

MARS.

undecided pecuniary of

state

affair

uncertainty.

Doubt regarding

with a male.

uncertain

lawsuit in a

trouble

arises.

a pecuniary transaction.

JUPITER.

undecided business investment.

with a large transaction. pecuniary

affairs.

Indecision connected

Two ways

open at once in

Uncertainty and doubt.

SATURN.

Uncertainty caused by death, or perhaps only illness. feeling of insecurity regarding future pecuniary transaction.

URANUS.

real estate transaction held in suspense.

come

a labor

matter.

L^ncertain out-

Two ways open

Choice of two kinds of labor, both

once.

fair.

NEPTUNE. Uncertainty and indecision connected with money, a journey or some matter at a distance. Doubt and general indecision reo'arding future home and business.

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30. 33.

43771.

MERCURY. Your hopes

will

pecuniary receipt of

be suddenly realized.

Satisfaction

Indecision comes to an end.

affair.

money when hardly

Sudden

expected.

VENUS. money

affair and a lady. In come Adjustment of pecuniary difficulties. satisfaction of mind as regards money.

Satisfaction regarding a cases a dear friend. Greneral

MARS. Termination of a law case. Satisfaction regarding money and a certam man. Happy ending of a trouble. This card counteracts the 5 and 7 of diamonds.

JUPITER.

investment turns out satisfactorily. Satisfaction obtained connected with money. good business. Ex-

presses general good business.

Lost

money

restored.

SATURN. A recovery

faction in a pecuniary way.

when

of health causes satis-

will in person's favor,

follows a seven of spades, especially.

URANUS.. Work

prospers.

Satisfaction in your labor.

Pleasant busi-

Money

gained by labor.

ness prospects.

Happy work.

A satisfactory real estate deal. NEPTUNE.

A satisfactory journey. Satisfaction

Money

Matters turn out well at a distance.

regarding business connected with travel.

gained by travel.

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SOLAR VALUE,

31.

SPIRIT VALUE,

43.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

34133.

MERCURY.

sudden or unexpected change, affecting the pecuniary status or arrangements of person, or one connected in a business way.

VENUS. Change

by some pecuniary con-

in love or friendship, caused

Financial change connected with a lady or

siderations.

dear friend.

Followed by 10 d, the change

Change happening

money

MARS. male. A

to a

a good one.

journey on business.

transaction changes in consequence of the inter-

ference of a gentleman in same business.

JUPITER.

business journey.

Change in some

Change of

of an investment.

business.

Financial change.

pecuniary cross to bear,

cases.

SATURN. Change of

business, location or advantage through sickness,

misfortune or death.

This card

counteracted by the

6 d under Saturn.

URANUS. Change of

location of one's labor.

long journey by land.

change of home.

real estate transaction.

card represents a pecuniary change of

some

This

sort,

NEPTUNE.

A change

of a pecuniary character, appearing sometimes at a

long journey on business. This card counteracted by 6d or 6 s under planet Neptune. distance.

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SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

32.

53.

44583.

MERCURY. Matters will soon settle

You

will

down smoothly

not make

Counteracts the

a business

five of

in a financial

way.

journey at present.

diamonds.

VENUS. in a monotonous way. No parchange with friends. Contra-iudicates the five of hearts and diamonds under Venus.

Money

affairs

move strongly

ticular

MARS. Affects

money matters

financial

of males principally.

difficulties.

arrangements.

Smooth

moving

Settlement of of

financial

Counteracts the 5 d and 7 d under Mars.

JUPITER. Settlement of accounts. along.

Business matters running slowly

Remain unchanged whether good

Ex-

or bad.

presses general lack of excitement.

SATURN. Monotonous life which is quite apt to lead to ennui or illness. Sameness or want of change in pecuniary affairs. Counteracts the 5 and 7 of diamonds.

URANUS. Location

work remains the same.

Real estate matters in statu quo.

Monotonous

labor.

Counteracts the

five

of diamonds and the five of spades.

NEPTUNE. Chances for travel very poor. Counteracts one five under With two fives, it indicates a monotonous this planet. and long journey on business.

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SOLAR VALUE,

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33.

SPIRIT VALUE,

ASTRAL NUMBER,

63.

13318.

MERCURY. money. Trouble regarding a pecuniary matter. Sudden and unexpected loss of money or property of some kind.

Unexpected

call for

VENUS. Money money and

Trouble connected with

paid or given to a lady.

With 8h, money

a friend, or near relative.

paid out for

some

pleasure.

MARS. Loss of money through the law. Money paid out to a man. In some cases a lawsuit, when with 7 c, especially. Indicates trouble connected with money, generally.

JUPITER. Investment of money in some place where you will not see again soon. this card

Loss of

money

in a trade.

Use care when

comes under Jupiter.

SATURN. Loss of

money through

illness of self or

Misfortune or bad acts of another. and 10 s it is by death of some one.

some other person. If

followed by 7

URANUS. Money for

paid out for labor.

Investment in land. Paid out Loss of money for

some psychic manifestation.

labor done.

NEPTUNE. Money

paid out or entirely lost through something connect-

ed with travel or

some operation

acts the eight of

diamonds.

at a distance.

Counter-

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SOLAR VALUE,

SPIRIT VALUE,

73.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

63651.

MERCURY. Rapid gaining of ends sought, Meetings for pecuniary Overcoming of trouble shown by 7 d.

Sudden accession of power.

when related purposes.

money

matters.

VENUS. Power

through the

of gaining property

friends.

Indicates

female

made through psychic

financial

make Money

ability to ability.

gifts.

MARS. Power gained through numbers. financial cially

consideration

Meetings of males for Strength, finan-

of questions.

and commercially.

JUPITER. Meetings of stockholders and companies, corporations and Power and ability to make money. Somesocieties. times represents quite large pecuniary transactions.

SATURN. Meetings of physicians. Power and financial ability connected with illness or death. In most cases represents gain by what is a loss to others.

URANUS. Power of making money through labor. Power gained through psychic gifts. To make money through power of foresight.

Labor meetings.

NEPTUNE. Power

gain

property

money through a

distance.

travel.

Sale of goods or

Financial

concerns extending to far-away places.

power

large

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144

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

35.

83.

14486.

MERCURY. Financial disappointment,

generally

connected with some speculation.

coming suddenly or Disappointment

re-

garding a short journey.

VENUS. Disappointment of a lady, connected in some way with money. Love affair goes wrong on account of finances. Counteracted by 8 d or 10 d under Venus.

MARS. Disappointment of a gentleman in some financial way. Pecuniary dissatisfaction and trouble. Loss of money by a lawsuit in certain aspects.

JUPITER. Loss of money through some mercantile transaction. Investment of money that will bring no return in cash or property.

SATURN. Investment in some losing enterprise. Disappointment of hopes regarding financial matters, caused by illness and in some aspects by death.

URANUS. Disappointment connected with a deal in real estate. Loss In some cases loss of a job or posiof money on labor. tion where labor is employed.

NEPTUNE. Disappointment connected with travel or a long journey, caused by financial trouble. Money paid out for travel, sometimes.

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0^0

43647.

MERCURY. Financial success coming sudden-

Success in a speculation.

Success of a short journey.

ly.

" streak of

good

fortune."

VENUS.

A wealthy acquaintand money. Kind help of

In some aspects a wealthy marriage. Success in

ance.

friends

a friend in some cases.

MARS. Financial success of a male connected In some cases represents money gained by

Success in a lawsuit.

with person.

matrimony.

JUPITER. General success in financial matters.

Shows the planets

be favorable for pecuniary enterprises of any or

all

kinds, unless the card

aspected against.

SATURN. Success in cess

money matters, but

impeded through

ill

will not

long continue.

health, or death of

Suc-

some other

person,

URANUS. General success in a pecuniary way with labor, business

and

Success in selling property.

real propert3^

cess in occult matters

Suc-

and those connected with land.

NEPTUNE. Success

gaining money by

the road by sample.

travel. Selling goods on Also in business connected with

the water, such as shipping.

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SOLAR VALUE,

37.

SPIRIT VALUE,

14.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

25261,

MERCURY. A

young man who spends money freely and makes money easily. In some cases a railroad man, or connected with something

rapid.

VENUS. A

gentleman with a good income. free-hearted lover or

young

friend.

generous man.

In some cases a

clerk in a husiness house,

MARS. Usually a young married man. single

man.

Sometimes a middle aged A law clerk. A bank

attorney at law.

clerk or cashier.

JUPITER.

A well-to-do

man.

merchant, salesman, banker, cashier,

broker or something of that nature.

One who handles

considerable money.

SATURN.

man who ill

has fine business qualities, but

In some cases this

health.

dissipated

emblem

hampered by

indicates a wild

man.

URANUS. An

young man who makes considerable money by his own exertions. In some aspects, a writer who makes money by his pen.

industrious

NEPTUNE.

A man who a

makes money by

traveling

concern.

salesman

traveling.

agent

In general terms for

some

monied

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150

SOLAR VALUE,

38.

SPIRIT VALUE,

24.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

33842.

MERCURY.

A lady

who

where

loves excitement; parties, operas and every place

wealth

She

displayed.

loves

money and

luxury.

VENUS.

warm-hearted, charitable lady

who has considerable means.

In some cases a wealthy lady friend of person.

In some

aspects an actress or singer.

MARS. One who spends money freely. fond of dress and generally quite pleased with the

Usually a married lady.

She

admiration of the opposite sex.

JUPITER.

wealthy lady, or one who is closely connected with a gentleman who handles money. Such as a business man or banker.

SATURN.

A lady

with money or business

health.

In some cases she

ability, is

but hampered by

a physician.

This card

ill

an excellent one for physicians, under Saturn.

URANUS. An

industrious and energetic lady

own

exertions.

who makes money by

her

In some cases she has strong psychic or

occult gifts which she utilizes.

NEPTUNE.

A traveled lady;

one

who

seeing the world. singer.

has spent a great deal of money in In some cases an actress or opera

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SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

39.

34.

37651.

MERCURY. A

sharp, quick, active, moiiey-inaking business

man.

One who makes money

times a speculator.

Somefluctuat-

ingly.

VENUS.

wealthy friend. An actor or musician. business man with kind heart, who makes much

wealthy lover.

money.

MARS. In some cases a wealthy husband. A well-to-do lawyer, A or one who owns or controls mines and minerals.

man

of strong

money-making power.

JUPITER.

wealthy, money-making, proud, "self-made" inan, who, as has

been

said,

"loves his maker.''

In some cases

a banker, wholesale dealer or manufacturer.

SATURN A

rich

man who

cases

wealth

who

In some

very close with his money.

a miserly man. ill

Under some

aspects a

man

health.

URANUS.

wealthy

man who

labors

hard to make more money.

In some cases a large real estate dealer. of much psychic power.

gentleman

NEPTUNE.

A man who

has spent much money in travel. Sometimes a merchant or seafaring man who has made a great deal of money.

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154

SOLAR VALUE,

40.

SPIRIT VALUE,

44.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

56575.

MERCURY. A

secret wish.

secret

secret resolution.

With

society.

mystics

secret knowledge.

represents

the

Order of the Magi.

VENUS.

letter

containing a secret.

secret friend.

order.

secret love.

secret wish.

secret or occult society or secret

secret present to person.

MARS.

by a male. A marriage secret communication. A

secret shared

wish.

news

some

cases.

secret.

secret

with bad

letter

conspiracy or plot.

JUPITER.

secret mercantile business or speculative transaction.

secret personal business letter. 1

important

letter.

A A

secret order.

SATURN. Bad news by

letter.

secret

communication.

cases a secret disease or a concealed

cealed disappointment.

In some

trouble.

A secret kept from

con-

you.

URANUS.

secret journey

by land.

A secret

real estate transaction.

Secret or occult psychic power.

hidden

secret present.

will.

NEPTUNE.

journey by water on secret business. nature from a distance. Visit of a person

on some

A letter

News

of a private

on private business.

secret mission.

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156

SOLAR VALUE,

41.

SPIRIT VALUE,

54.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

36731.

MERCURY.

pressing engagement.

other.

unexpected

agreement to work for an-

ofiEer

a piece of work.

sudden union.

VENUS.

union with a lady in some kind of work. of forces.

proposal of a business nature.

joining

co-

partnership with a relative or near friend.

MARS. Work

yer.

conjunction with a man.

A combination

or plot.

Consultation with a law-

A letter from

a male.

union of male forces in some kind of labor.

JUPITER. man relating

Interview with a business

garding a piece of work.

to work.

Letter re-

transaction between two

persons.

SATURN. Letter announcing the illness of a person you are interested in.

News regarding

physician.

a sick friend.

Consultation with a

business call on the sick.

URANUS. Work done

by two persons jointly. Letter regarding a piece of work. News of the illness of a person at a distance, by land. Plan of work between two,

NEPTUNE. Interview with a person regarding travel on business.

from

a distance over water

tance from your residence.

and land.

work

News at a dis-

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158

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

42. 64.

13161.

MERCURY. A

case arrises suddenly where

Two ways open

courses.

you must decide between two Two ofiEers of some at once.

kind, relating to work.

VENUS. Indecision regarding a matter of work or health, connected

with a woman.

Undecided bargain with a decision regarding a home.

friend.

In-

Business indecision. Undecided business matter. ways open in business, both requiring much work. decision regarding a law case.

Two

MARS. In-

JUPITER. Indecision

regarding a cash

business, both requiring

Two

transaction.

much

kinds of

cash to conduct, open up

at once for the person.

SATURN. Indecision caused by a death or illness. of illness.

ing

unsettled

bill,

some

undecided case

cases.

linger-

illness.

URANUS. Indecision

relative

psychic experience,

a real estate

transaction, a job of work, a land journey or the con-

duct of some employee.

NEPTUNE. Indecision regarding a journey by water, a business at a distance.

The

visit of a friend,

a job of

or connected with transportation.

work on the water,

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160

SOLAR VALUE,

43.

SPIRIT VALUE,

74.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

54472.

MERCURY. Realizations of expectations for success in

some piece

coming suddenly.

of work.

Unlocked

case decided sud-

Satisfaction, of limited duration.

denly.

VENUS. Work for

others through love for Love for your work. them. Satisfaction in your labors. A happy home Contentment of soul. life.

MARS. Strength

Married happiness for females. Satisfactory labor

males. five of

in labor of love for

home.

Counteracts the

spades and seven of spades.

JUPITER. Satisfactory

labor.

Good

pecuniary

returns

therefor.

Reasonable compensation for labor performed ^and

satis-

faction gained thereby.

SATURN. Recovery from

illness.

disappointment.

same

Satisfactory ending of a trouble or

Counteracts the seven of spades under

planet.

URANUS. from one's business or labor. Satisfacnews received from a distance. Labor con-

Satisfaction derived tion from

nected with the farm.

NEPTUNE. Success in travel connected with business or labor. factory journey by water, when a

same or a co-ordinate

planet.

five

Satis-

comes under the

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162

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

44.

84.

27824.

MERCURY.

sudden journey. business

change of employment.

methods.

News

regarding

change

distant

transaction.

VENUS. Change in the labor of a female. Journey of a lady by land. Removal of home or habitation. Visit of a female.

A short journey. MARS. Change

employment of

city.

from a

Visit of a male

a male.

journey connected with business or one's labor.

A change

in one's usual life

and home surroundings.

JUPITER. Change

pecuniary

Journey

labor.

affairs.

Pecuniary change in one's

News

business.

business

nature.

SATURN. Change

employment caused by

illness of self or friends.

journey or removal caused by an

cases

illness.

In some

represents an unfortunate journey.

URANUS. Journey

connected

Change

with

business,

profession

in one's profession or work.

labor.

change, ron-

nected with real estate or agriculture.

NEPTUNE. Journey to a distance, professional or connected with some kind of work. News from a distance regarding a change.

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SOLAR VALUE,

45.

SPIRIT VALUE,

ASTRAL NUMBER,

44754.

MERCURY. End

Counteracts changes shown under same planet.

Settlement of

worry.

difficulties.

Steady and satisfac-

tory employment.

VENUS. Quiet, uneventful life as regards self

and

surroundings.

Matters

and intimate friends

move smoothly.

This

card indicates quiet and comfort for females.

MARS. Settlement of lawsuits, quarrels or anything of the kind

shown under this ment generally.

planet.

Absence of change or excite-

JUPITER. Monotony

in business or professional

Counteracts

smoothly.

fives

life.

Business moving

and sevens under same

planet.

SATURN. Recovery from illness when same is shown. Counteracts changes and troubles shown under this planet. FoUoAved ed by 4d, satisfactory and steady employment.

URANUS. Prosperity in profession or labor, or the contrary, remains

without change for some time.

Monotony

in profession

or labor.

NEPTUNE. If a

journey

general this

shown it is a long and drear}^ emblem indicates " no journey will

one.

be made."

Contra-indicates the five and seven of same suit.

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166

SOLAR VALUE,

46.

SPIRIT VALUE,

15.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

17782.

MERCURY. Trouble in some matter con-

Headache, severe throbbing. nected with your work.

Sudden accident or

illness.

Counteracts the eight of spades.

VENUS. Illness

caused by overdoing, late hours or excitement.

love, trouble or illness of a dear friend.

Counteracts the

seven of hearts.

MARS. by excitement, drink, late hours, passion or Represents Chills, cold feet and hands. trouble for males and for females trouble caused by males.

Illness caused

severe labor.

JUPITER. Illness

caused by business

trouble and care. loins

worry.

Indicates considerable

Sleeplessness, headache, pain in the

and back.

SATURN. Illness

and trouble connected with the rulings under Scorpio.

This class of diseases need not be particularized here.

Followed by a 4 d, a will in your favor.

URANUS. Trouble with one's work or profession. An obstacle to overcome. Illness caused by overwork. Some work is not satisfactory.

NEPTUNE. Illness similar

diseases

some

to sea

caused

sickness.

Rheumatism

dampness.

obstacle, to a journey.

Dropsy.

and

other

Trouble, or

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168

SOLAR VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

47.

25.

63388.

MERCURY. Power

and carry on profession or labor. Rapid accomplishment of work. Overcoming of an obstacle. to control

Ability to succeed against antagonistic circumstances.

VENUS. Power

Female power and strength Female organizations. Meetings of females for purposes of work in some cause. in

overcoming

of will.

obstacles.

labor of love.

MARS. Power gained through concentraDevelopment of power. Overcoming

Organizations of males. tion

of forces.

of obstacles.

JUPITER. Power represented by organizations such

manufacturing

companies, railroad corporations and labor organizations.

Power and strength

numbers.

SATURN. Power

in overcoming illness and obstacles to advancement. Recovery from illness, when such exists at the time of

the delineating.

URANUS. Strength and power in professional or other labor. Ability Organized labor. Concento overcome all obstacles. tration of forces.

NEPTUNE. Travel that affects numbers of people and business interests at a distance.

Concentrated

trol of laborers in large

effort at a distance.

numbers.

Con-

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SOLAR VALUE,

48.

SPIRIT VALUE,

35.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

12772.

MERCURY. Sudden

illness or

Injury to some person.

an accident.

disappointment, but

bitter

one

that will soon pass.

Dissatisfaction with labor.

VENUS. Illness

caused by powerful emotions.

friend, or relative

by marriage.

Illness

a lady

disappointment of a

wish or aspiration to succeed.

MARS.

Disappointment caused by a man. some undertaking. Loss caused through some cases a secret disclosure.

lawsuit.

Ill

success

illness.

JUPITER. Financial

loss,

disappointment, trouble, failure, bankruptcy,

default of employee and kindred troubles, according to

other indications in same lay-out.

SATURN. An

illness of self, or a

If with 7 s, your birth card,

near friend.

fatal termination.

If near

indicates a

warns you

to be extremely careful of yourself.

URANUS. Disappointment in one's labor. formed.

disagreeable labor per-

disappointing occurrence at a distance.

missed opportunity.

Disappointment

in a real estate deal.

NEPTUNE. An

accident by water.

Illness caused

appointment regarding a journey. distance.

by dampness. DisBad news from a

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172

SOLAR VALUE,

jT^l

49.

SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

45.

65413.

MERCURY. Successful

labor.

quick

return

for labor

performed.

Sucwith rapid transportation.

Success in a speculation.

Professional success.

cess in a business connected

VENUS. Success and happiness in one's labor,

surroundings.

home

life

and general

Indications especially strong for females.

Success in business where females are largely employed.

MARS. Strength to bear trouble and to labor for some great good. General success, especially for males. In some cases predicts success in a lawsuit.

JUPITER. General pecuniary success in sional undertakings,

mercantile pursuits, profes-

and manufacturing enterprises.

strong card under Jupiter.

SATURN. Success in the practice of medicine, healing and kindred pursuits.

shown

Indicates recovery

elsewhere.

from

illness

when such

Counteracts the nine of spades.

URANUS. Good and increasing success labor.

in all pursuits connected with

Success in real estate transactions.

Overcoming

of troubles.

NEPTUNE. Success in pursuit of various kinds connected with travel,

with by water.

especially travel

the

water.

Fishing,

boating

and

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174

SOLAK VALUE, SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

50. 55.

26666.

MERCURY. An

young man. A man who is engaged in some work requiring quickness and skill. A successman in most cases.

industrious line of

ful

VENUS.

industrious is

man who

engaged in some occupation that

clean and light, requiring keen perceptions and ability

make and keep

friends.

MARS.

gentleman connected with the law. or some trade requiring strong will force and power, or, in some cases,

manly strength.

JUPITER.

active

young man, engaged

A powerful

fessional pursuit.

some mercantile or proworker. Steady and in-

dustrious.

SATURN.

young

man engaged

or middle aged

some pursuit con-

nected with medicine, such as a physician, druggist, or

something of the kind.

URANUS.

hard-working young or middle aged man. a dealer in

real

estate.

In some cases

In some aspects indicates a

farmer or laborer.

NEPTUNE. Usually indicates a transportation;

sailor,

but

or one

may

salesman or tradesman.

also

connected

with water

represent

a traveling

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SOLAR VALUE,

51.

SPIRIT VALUE,

65.

ASTRAL NUMBER,

44576.

MERCURY. An

industrious lady,

about her work.

who

quick of motion and hurries

Generally quite nervous in temper-

ament.

VENUS.

affectionate, faithful and industrious wife and mother.

In some cases, however,

same

indicates a single lady of

disposition.

MARS.

hard-working woman, inclined to a masculine bearing. Sometimes shows a quarrelsome woman and one who talks against her neighbors.

JUPITER.

business lady.

One who

handle money. mercantile institution.

and to employed in a

loves to transact business

In some

cases one

who

SATURN. Sometimes indicates a female physician. A lady who is ill. A lady employed in some place where the sick are treated.

URANUS.

hard-working woman, who

delights in running things.

She cannot bear to see a speck of Kindly disposition.

dirt

about the house.

NEPTUNE.

A lady who

a worker in some line affecting or connected with travel. In some cases the wife of a man who traveled lady, a worker. travels. is

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SOLAR VALUE,

52.

SPIRIT VALUE, ASTRAL NUMBER,

75.

44585.

MEKCURY.

One who

quick-tempered, hard-working, rushing man.

employes many workmen, in some business man.

cases.

energetic

VENUS.

A man

of kindly disposition, not very wealthy, usually one

who

a hard

Kind to his family. In some employing females.

worker.

cases the head of a concern

MARS. Usually denotes an industrious, professional gentleman. attorney at law, a judge, or some

some

cases, the

In head of a concern employing male help. office

holder.

JUPITER.

manufacturer or a gentleman who employs a great deal of A self-made man. A man of influence. A labor. business rusher.

SATUEN. An

and experienced physician. In some cases a hardworked man who has bad health. L^sually represents an

old

over-worked person.

URANUS. A

sober, industrious, business

that employs others.

man who

carries

on a business

controller of labor.

real

estate dealer.

NEPTUNE. A

gentleman connected with travel and taansportation. In some cases an officer, a captain of a vessel or a superintendent of some company employed in water traffic.

CHAPTER

So far

Tfiie

VIII.

^ttcidrcite* FUETHEE INSTRUCTION

THE CEOSS OF CHRIST.

DELINEATING.

'N page 58 we gave an "Independent Solar Spread," which

Now,

there are

explained upon page 57.

many

strange properties con-

nected with this solar spread, or quadrate from the solar test book.

have explained on

pages 45 to 47 some of these properties, but will give "

Grand

here something more.

w^e

page 181 we give the

Cross," which represents the Cross of Christ, with

Jesus, the Teacher of Nazareth,

upon the center

of the

cross, represented

by the emblem which in mystic language

indicates a single

man

ing under Venus. in the

same place in

But

with a kind and loving heart, rulin the solar test

all its

book he comes

quadrations.

The two Marys are seen

at the foot of the cross, the

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182

emblem at the top with the emblems each side. The eight at the right hand end secret

represents power in knowledge.

emblematic meanings

power on

of the cross

I will not give all the

here, leaving

much

for our mystic

friends to study out.

But we

will call the attention of the student to the fact

that the quadration from the solar test book, endlessly

produces Christ

the

iipo7i

same place

The

in this cross.

king of spades, a representative of the kingly power, and the 8 of clubs before spoken

of,

remain throughout

quadrates in the same positions. the sun line.

same time complete,

from 183

In order

The king

at the

to illustrate this fully,

all

the

head of

and

at the

to give our readers the first 12 solar quadrates

upon the next alternating pages

will give

to 203 inclusive, the other eleven solar quadratic

They

spreads.

are all well worthy of study as independent

quadrates.

Following this

series,

will give

and 209 samples of quadrated

astral test book,

nomical time, with the deal in fours. of these, so

With

we give only three

this explanation,

upon pages

205, 207

upon

astro-

There are thousands

for purposes of study.

we are prepared to go on with our

work.

FAETHEE EXPLANATIONS OF DELINEATING. Combinations of cards, either under one planet or side

side in

materially.

same That

direction, either

life is,

lines,

change the indications very

combinations tending in a certain

good or bad, favorable or unfavorable, are

stronger than the indications of their component parts

would be

in separated positions.

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For instance, take the following:

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JUPT.

This combination indicates that the person will gain

many

friends

and through that power he

power of gaining wealth that he ;

will

in applying his knowledge to business matters

succeed in making money. the effect

by being

together,

The same

same spot

true of

all

and he

will

The two tens not only double but show a blending influence

in the shape of a double success in wealth

have the

have great success

and knowledge.

doubles, and three or four cards

value, together, increase

the power in like

proportion.

the other

hand take the following:

SAT. This combination

a very

bad

one

and

trouble, worry, illness, loss of a friend, loss of

indicates

money

property, disappointment in labor and in business, and a

double disappointment besides. NEUTRALIZING INFLUENCES. When cards of opposing qualities come together they neutralize each other in such a

ing of each cannot be taken.

manner that the

full

mean-

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6 6 In this illustration the or a journey,

five of spades, indicating a

contra-indicated by the

change

which shows

six,

that the change or journey contemplated will be postponed

This will cause a disappointment, but the ten

for a time.

of hearts following the nine, or

the disappointment will be slight.

money

matter,

indicates that

The trouble with some

shown by the seven

partially neutralized

Emblems

its side,

of diamonds, is only

by the ten, because the

suit is different-

THE GENERAL EULE. the same suit, that indicate

opposite, or

nearly opposite, qualities, strongly neutralize each other. Tf the suits are different they only partly neutralize each

other.

PLANETAEY NEUTRALIZATIONS.

When

good card comes under

bad

planet, or a

bad

card comes under a good planet, the indications are neutralized to a certain extent, ings.

As an

dependant upon the surround-

illustration take the following:

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Here the seven

ruling under Venus, and so also

four of hearts of

diamonds

Venus

by The

of hearts is neutralized in its effect is

augmented by

slightly lowered

the nine of clubs.

its position,

while the ten

in its power,

because

antagonistic to Jupiter, the principal ruler in

diamonds. In short, the student should constantly bear in

mind

the suits ruling naturally under each planet and give due force to the changes produced by

emblems appearing under

different aspects.

These various changes in indications are provided for as far as possible in the tables of indications preceding, but

the almost infinite combinations and meanings cannot

be provided

all

for.

POSITION OF THE PLANETS AT THE TIME.

The

professional expert,

who wishes

naturally to give as

perfect a delineation as possible, will need

board" upon

"trestle-

the wall, exhibiting the planets in their

proper positions for the time.

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Planets, Earth ajid Moon.#For the benefit of numerous students of astralism who have the necessary knowledge and means of

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tracing these bodies in their revolution about the sun we give a very brief synopsis of their characteristic effects.

Planet of impulse. Passion, sex love, activity, sudden changes. Stimulator of magnetism. Accidents. Quickener of effects of other planets. Rules fevers and all inflamma-

tory diseases.

Planet of

love.

Beauty, purity, devotion, harmony,

ideality, spirituality, affection, esteem, kindness, blandness, and truth,

Planet of ivar. Inharmony, quarrels, law suits, combativeness, antagonism, strength, vitality, sex force, restRules liver and bilious diseases, lessness under restraint.

music, poetry, art, grace, connubial love, honor Eules emotional diseases.

headache and dyspepsia. Planet of luealth. Power, avariciousness, pride, congoverning force, greatness, elegance, order, ascendancy, love of money, strength of will, selfish instinct, memory of events, firmness. Rules appoplexy and many diseases of trol,

the brain.

Planet of inharmony. Sickness, death, enmity, anger, intoxication, gluttony, poverty, disgrace, ill luck, hardship. Rules diseases of all kinds, in each houseof the Zodiac.

selfishness,

Planet of Labor. Domesticity, love of nature and the young, life force high, veneration, justice, foresight, frugality, ingenuity. Appertains to the ground. Rules tveakness and all diseases caused by a low vibratory force.

Planet of ivater. Locality, or poiver to remember places, bibativeness, sailing, traveling,' sublimity or love of the marvelous, intuition, application, eventuality, self control. Rules rheumatism and all diseases made worse by

dampness.

MOON.

Satellite of earth. Rules all forms of insanity crankiness. Effect constant upon inhabitants of earth but varied by polar changes.

and

EARTH.

Planet of selfishness.

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Grasping, greed, ac-

quisitiveness, tyranny, love of money and power, effect coiistant upon the inhabitants thereof, but changed according to polarity of earth in the various houses.

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Keep a pamphlet for sale at the Grand Temple each

which gives the position of the planets for the

year,

When

Sent postpaid for 25 cents, to any address.

year.

certain

planets are in strong aspect to each other; for instance in

conjunction or oj)position; or when two planets are each

same aspect

in the

relative to the

rature or sextile; the

earth, such as

emblems ruling

in the

and under those co-ordinating planets

augment

manner

same

life line

act together, so as to

their effect or neutralize each other in the

In order

when such appear to aid the

quad-

same

together under one planet.

student in understanding the plane-

tary effects, so that he can calculate as nearly as possible

whether the

as to

antagonize or are

effects co-ordinate,

neutral in any given condition.

give a condensed,

general table of planetary effects on page 190.

The suits

letters at the side are the ones

and are always used

instead of writing the

The

earth and

used to indicate the

in recording the

names out

moon both

names

of emblems,

in full.

and rule

act together

in clubs,

but the card lay-outs do not spread cards for those bodies because the earthly and lunarian magnetism ed for in the planetary calculations. a " constant,'' that distance,

The

already account-

The earth

effect is

a force constantly acting at the

same

upon the inhabitants.

effects of

the moon

nearly a constant as to distance^

but constitutes a changeable force as to polarity.

While the brains state,

of a

Luna has but

human

being are in a good normal

little effect

upon that person except

in the physical condition.

But the moment that the brain becomes

diseased, the rate

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power of the moon

of psychic vibration comes within the

co-ordinate therewith and just in proportion to the extent of

the cerebral unbalancino; or derangement the moon's effect takes the place of the normal planetary effects.

A WONDERFUL PECULIARITY. It is a strange fact,

but

has been determined by observa-

tions, that a lay-out of cards, spread

mixing of a ings and

all

from the handling and

lunatic, actually become reversed in their

rule

under the moon.

Bad

the normal indication, while good ones

mean-

cards are better than

become

bad.

Success becomes disappointment, love becomes hate, virtue and goodness

become immorality and

sin.

Trouble and

weakness are no longer indicated by sevens but by eights. Predictions

made regarding the

action of insane persons,

under given conditions, must be more or

less reversed accord-

ing to the extent of the mental aberation.

THE EFFECT INDICATED BY SUN CARDS. There are always three cards called " sun cards" in each lay-out.

These cards are the ones that do not rule under

any one of the planets

at the time,

and they are usually

regarded as emblems of effects that are not in the person's life

at the time.

By some

masters,

they are considered as

events or conditions passed and gone out of the person's

From my own

observations, I

am inclined

life.

to the belief that

the sun cards simply indicate that those conditions are not at present in force in the planetary aspects prevailing at the

time.

Heliocentric astrology does not take the apparent motion of the sun into consideration, for the sun

about the same and

effect is

called the "solar constant."

always

Ihi

J^fitte

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THE EFFECT OF THE But the manner tlie

earth

which

SUJST.

this solar effect

very important and

fully considered in the

calculations of polarity relative to the earth.

changes are

all

calculated on

received hy

These polar

a time basis, for " time "

nothing but a measure of motion of the heavenly bodies, particularly the earth.

If the earth stood perpendicular to the plain of tion about the sun, the polar

of the sun

there Avould be it

at the

same time, the

will

no change to calculate

would make no possible

a person was born, whether

The student

if,

was perfectly circular and the inclination

zero,

through polarity and

when

revolu-

changes would be so slight as to

scarcely be worth calculating, and orbit of the earth

its

was

difference

January or July.

understand by this explanation that the

"signs of the Zodiac" are nothing but points of measure-

ment dividing the heavens ,

these signs are only

into twelve portions and that

emblems and tokens of the twelve grand

polarities of the earth as that

body moves around Old Sol in

his yearly journey.

The signs themselves have no magnetic

effect ivhatever,

the

mass of suns in each sign being too numerous and too far awa}^ to be calculated or considered by mathematics.

MILLIONS OF TEAKS HENCE. After the lapse of an enormous time, comparatively Speaking, the planet Jupiter will have cleared its

atmosphere of

its

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loads of carbon and metalic vapors

now

held from

by the power of heat vibrations, and he abode of

human

beings.

ever acting laws

will

its

surface

become the

There, under the ever present and those beings

of evolution

will arrive at

a high state of civilization, growth and spiritual power. I

and

they will be obliged to pass through the errors

first

follies incident to all early

allow kings

Human

and self-appointed

growths.

The people

priests to rule over

will

them.

be trampled in the dust for ages and

liberty will

ages.

But the time

will

come when the

will be the religion of Jupiter,

" Religion of the Stars "

and kings and

priests will be

no more forever on that planet.

There are many reasons for Jupiter

which

this prediction.

One

that

inclined but slightly to the plane of the ecliptic,

will

make

the seasons uniform and the effects from

magnetic conditions very constant.

While the enormous

length of time that the planet will be in a condition to sustain life, will give

ample scope for the work of evolution

advance the people to a high state of unfoldment.

But our business

with our

of a planet, at present, so

away

again.

own

little

will

endeavor to not wander

insignificant speck

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CHAPTER

IX.

Tcirotofocjg< THE WONDERFUL PROPERTIES OF THE TEST BOOK TAROTS.

Book

strange properties of the Mystic Test are beautifully illustrated by

made from

tarots cients

its

called these tarots

"Magi"

means of the

magic pages. "

Magic

The an-

" squares

squares, and they are found carved

upon

stone upon ancient monuments.

The squares thus found, however, are those made of ary numerals, because the ones made of the symbols Test

Book

are

much more

difficult to represent

besides being held as too sacred to be thus

But the sacred quality ent standpoint now. all

made

ordin-

of the

upon

stone,

public.

looked upon quite from a

differ-

The Order regards the Test Book and

the other matters connected with our religion and

as "sacred," only in the sense that all

knowledge

work

sacred.

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no longer look upon anything with that superstitious

reverence that belongs to the childhood of races,

saw a God or demon

in everything that

when men

was the

least bit

out oÂŁ the common. It will be impossible, in this

prehensive treatise

upon the

work, to give a full and comsubject, that will enable the

student to find individual tarots for any and

all

birth dates,

because the key birth tarots alone, from Avhich the test book tarot sare constructed,

number

six

thousand eight hundred

and sixteen.

The key

number

tarots

from which these 6,816

are constructed,

hundred and forty-four, and they are only to be

six

found in two books upon

Therefore we only

this planet.

intend to give, in this work, elementary instruction upon a subject that

practically infinite in extent.

The simplest form

of tarot

tarot.

known

the 3x3

number

3 5 7

4 9 2 The

horizontal lines, perpendicular lines and the diagonals

from corner

to corner each add

figures in one

all

15,

which

row multiplied by the center

equal to the

figure, five.

odd numbered magic squares this law holds good.

will

now produce

the same from leaves of the Mystic

Test Book.

The

spot value of the emblems, being the same as in the

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number

tarot,

forms a perfect tarot

as in the preceding,

but

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in addition

find that the solar values of the cards

form

the following tarot:

3 18 33

17 35 2 This

That is

"perfect," because

is, it is

not a perfect

the line

all

the eight lines add up 54.

a perfect solar tarot, or physical tarot.

first line at

95 and the

spirit tarot in

But

any manner whatsoever, for

the left adds up 184, the next perpendicular last 54.

The

spirit results are

mixed.

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Let us ^ake another one

now and

note the difference.

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THE SOLAR VALUE

THE SPOT VALUE.

38 5 23 7 23 37

12 5 10 9 11

2139

8 13 6 The

first

forming a perfect tarot adding up

The second being

27, or 3 times 9.

66, or 3 times 22.

Now

take the spirit vahies of the same cards, found below.

This

a perfect " spirit tarot " adding up one hundred

and twenty-six on its

a perfect tarot adding

all its

central number.

eight lines.

That

is,

three times 42,

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Why made

is it,

think

3^011,

that the same tarot of cards,

of different emblems, changes

more have

this property,

why

its

when

If one or

properties?

not all?

24 50 52 70 42 14 32 34 60 Again, when we find the ly different

from the

spirit of these cards so

solar values

complete-

and spot values, why should

they ever form a perfect tarot?

The reason ties,

is this,

because these cards have divine proper-

or occult properties not possessed by

ever existed

For the purpose of further will again

any other book

that

upon our planet. illustration of this point

produce the sacred star and examine into

its

properties.

The

tarot in the center

shows the emblems of wisdom, run-

ning from the quarter of labor to the quarter of knowledge.

The queen

of love rules

upon the point of the

star

where

the four of hearts represents satisfaction in love and friend-

The knave

ship.

love" and that

is,

of hearts

in the point

his position corresponds to the

of "

power

male birth house,

Aries.

The king of

hearts

in the place of m,arriage, that

is,

the

house of Gemini.

Upon

the points, the seven of hearts, with the double

signification, spiritually good; physically bad; rules

with Leo,

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the

emblem

of the Infinite Power, and Cancer, the

emblem

of the retrogression of the physical.

The

ace of spades, the secret emblem, representative of the

secret order, stands

between the balances of Libra, and the

Virgin of the sixth house upon one of the dark or " occult points of the star.

The

2 of spades on another dark point represents " union

in labor."

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All the points from the Magi card around to the the sacred number that

we gave on page 23

left,

in the

form

emblems

number

equal to 3 times

of wisdom, which represents one-seventh of the

the Infinite.

V P 6 6 The

spot value of this

or 27, the

in the central tarot.

occult

row

just

same number that constitutes

But the

number 12x12 used

the

sum of

solar values add

much

each row

up 144, the

in the mystic books

of the Bible.

But,

now

observe the vast difference between the spirit

values of the sacred

number and

the tarot.

forraer=44+40+54+80+84+70, which

While the

equal 872 or 12

times 31, the latter, or tarot lines are but 126.

TAROT SOLAR VALUES

TAROT SPIRIT VALUES.

12 33 21

31 63 32

31 22 13

43 42 41 52 21 53

23 11 32 The

solar values add 66 against 144

the spot values are the same.

two opposite

Again, take the cards on any

points, light plus dark, positive

and they invariably add up the same on

on the points, while

all

and negative,

the points, thus

find that as different as the various values are, the co-

ordinations are so perfect that each opposite pair of points

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balance with eacn of the others as shown in the following table: -

Quarter values add up

Spot values add up Suit values add up

124

Solar values add up Spirit values add

31=372.

The

three triangles together^l2 times

wish to particularly impress upon the minds of our

readers the fact that these

which

are arbitrary

numbers

are not like

mere words

and invented by human- beings, but on

the contrary, these wonderful and astonishing mathematical relations, connected

with the Test Book,

inherent in the very laivs of the Infinite. fixed facts, not only

upon

divine attributes

dtxe

Therefore they are

this particular earth;

but upon

all

the planets that exist throughout the vast realms of space.

THE SIXTEEN" MAGIC TAROT.

The

next tarot to the one

we have been

by far the most important, squares or 4 times

considering, and

the one containing sixteen

These are called " birth tarots," from the fact that every person born into the world has one as his or her ruling tarot.

all,

there are

belonging

many

any

millions of these tarots, and the one

individual

can

only

found by

mathematical calculation.

Some

person's tarots are perfect in spirit as well as the

solar values.

Others are very imperfect, while some are

partly perfect in spirit and in

The

tarot of

some cases almost wholly

any person shows how well the

balanced to the mentality and physical.

so.

astral or spirit

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214

In some the solar values are low, while the

In others the law

are high.

peculiarity spirits

of all

what

that

is,

reversed.

some

the

spirit values

But the strangest cards have

minus

called "double astrals," while there are

persons to correspond. It is not generally

who

persons that one

known

that there are, here and there,

actually have a double inner self or astral

positive, the other negative.

and

I hesitate to put

forth such facts without going into details which support

the claim, but I will be obliged to only give the mathematical side of the

tarot to

questiqn in this work, or the relations of the

man.

RULE FOR FINDING THE NEGATIVE SPIRIT OF A CARD, "Subtract the positive spirit of the card from the number eighty-nine^

and give

the

remainder the minus

sign.'"'

EXAMPLES OF DOUBLE ASTRALS. Five of spades: positive 84, negative

Seven of hearts: positive

Nine

70, negative

of diamonds: positive 83, negative

King of clubs: positive 82, negative As a matter of fact every card has a negative

spirit that

6 7

astral,

even inclined to believe that each and every

being has a negative

and

human

comes uppermost under

certain conditions, but the negatives of nearly all the cards

do not appear to assert themselves only under very extraordinary circumstances. In the same manner, the negative spirit of

human

beings

some

certain

generally keeps back, except in the case of

ones to

who

act

appear, at least from a mathematical standpoint,

under the negative

astral nearly all the time.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

215

have found several persons during our temple worK of the past three years, ivho act under the negative magnetic astral

number and calculations must be made accordingly cases.

This extends to planetary affects

The "Strange Case

Jekyl and Mr.

Dr.

in their

too.

Hyde,"

although written as a novel only, seems to be founded upon a fact in

human

nature.

The following examples of birth tarots are all taken from the Test Book at one time and they illustrate the various phases mentioned heretofore.

9 d 6

ÂŤ

I**

V V

* * V 9

a 6

d 6 THE

One called

line of tarots,

"Century

values add

CENTURY

" TAROT.

comprising 354,43b in number, are

tarots,"

just 100

from the all

wonderful examples of high

fact

the lines.

that their solar

But they are

spirit tarots, the astrals

also

adding

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

216

199 on

all lines,

thus showing them to be perfect in spirit on

the positive astrals.

THE SPIRIT VALUE

THE SOLAR VALUE.

4643 8 3015 74 80 34172029 73 8122 23 21303316 3233 6371 42 7 4 47 64 704025 3

Adds 199.

Adds lOO.

This line of tarots has a spirit value almost double the solar value.

Lack but

a unit.

9 9 6

o 0^0 0^0 9<^9

9^9

EXAMPLE OF A SOLAR 122 TAROT FROM THE SAME BOOK.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

217

Class 122^ spot values add 44: solar values add 122: spirit values

add

152;

52+100, the

exactly

solar value of its

the

Test

Book number

mate given above.

There

are 54,528 of these tarots.

SPIRIT VALUES,

SHOWING ONE NEGATIVE ASTRAL.

65 45 41

34 52 72 -6

82 4 24 42 35 31 11 75 In

adding the

lines,

you should add the positives

9 V ^ 6 ^,

V ol

^1 fjj V'

9 9 V fi 6

^ o

TAROT FROM CLASS NUMBER 92 SOLAR, FROM SAME BOOK.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

218

together and subtract the negative from this instance the

diamonds. line

negative used

75+42+41=158.

adds in same manner 152.

perfect,

158—6=152. In

which

This entire

—

" book,"

The

cross

class 92 the spirits are

adding 119, but using the negative

of spades

the sum.

that of the nine of

spirit of the 5

This series contains 27,564

tarots.

which means 48 cards, 4x12, exclusive

of the knaves, contains 436,224 tarots.

TAEOT FEOM CLASS NUMBER 96 SOLAB: SERIES

842.

6 6

o o

* *

* 9 9 6 C> 6

•

Another

series

is still

more remarkable

for the

wide

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

219

divergence between the solar and spirit values, also from the fact that the astrals are is

class

272,448.

96,

number

Spirits add

all

positive

tarots

and

109,056.

This

perfect.

Entire

up 248; more than two mid

series

one-half

times the solar values.

One

peculiar series are called " Court Tarots " from the

composed of all the court cards. EXAMPLE OF SOLAR COURT TAROTS NUMBER 124.

fact that they are

Up class

to the present time but 27,264 are

number

124, but

it is

known

of the

quite probable that this will be

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

220

exceded.

belongs to a very large

series,

containing

nearly half a million in number.

The

solar values

and

spirit values of class 124 are

very

nearly balanced, 124 to 172.

NAMES OF THE FIVE All tarots, of whatever

" POINTS " OF A TAROT.

number

of squares, have five

points, consisting of the four corners

odd numbered square

such as the 16 or

center.

such as 9 or 25 square, the center

tarots,

one of the

and the

" points."

But

in even square tarots

36, the center point is

where the middle

lines cross.

The names

of these points are as follows, being the ones

used in ancient times: -^.

*•**-*

*Tot.

3\na.

»f|

^l &^ *

Tau. J

¥ Ot\).

•*-

-Ai-

* *

The word "Tot" means small, and denotes the place of the Ego or 1, in a tarot of first position. "Ana " signifies

Rad " signifies a root or center Orb " means the earth, and that

" over, opposite to another.'' "

from which points corner '

Tau "

radiate. "

ruled by the earth in the male line of a 16 tarot,

signifies " over,

beyond, to a point beyond another."

HOW TAROT SQUARES COME UNDER THE The male squares

PLANETS.

in a tarot are those forming a " Saint

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

221

Cross," or the letter X, and the planets rule as

Anthony

follows therein: -*

3vler.

yit

Yen

YetvT-UTa.

*$at.

—

%^\.

l^tr.

lira

Yc-w^iXa.

JU>

Tet

3Mef. Mat.

^K T,et.

3yiep:

\3ulp.

^ccc.

'S\\o>l\e...

The female squares of a tarot fill the remaining squares and form a circle. THE FEMALE CIRCLE OF PLAifETS. This line differs somewhat from the former conceptions held

regarding

the

Later

female squares.

discoveries

changing the rulings on some squares.

see here illustrated the very original, conception of

the cross X, and circle

Any

tarot to that of

emblems

of sex.

be changed or transposed from a Mercury

tarot can

any other planet, by crossing the cards over

uniformly in such a manner as to bring the place of the Ego to the

square ruled hy the planet; but this change revolves

the ego in the female circle constantly,

feminine

tarot,

male one.

If the changes are

the ego from the

made

such a manner as to throw

^o the X, or vice versa, the tarot will

in its entire nature

imperfect one.

the tarot

and on the contrary the ego remains in the

X, if the tarot is a

changed

At the

and in many cases rendered an

least it will

be thrown into another

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

222

from

series or class, very different

its

former solar rank.

The following series of seven cuts, exhibits in a graphic manner the way changes are made from the primary, or

Mercury

tarot, to

The lines emblems

each of the other planets.

drawn from one dot

to another, signify that the

or figures in those squares are to be

exchanged one with

another.

In the illustration of Jupiter the crossing from corner to corner

indicated by

arrows

save

confusion

the

of lines. *f-^

-%•

V»

-ft-

•

•!».»•

•

-4««?i U.1CXV.

A-

Any

Hi-

•

-»

sixteen tarot that exists, can be changed thus, with-

out spoiling

its characteristics.

THE

MYiSTIC TEST BOOK.

223

There are many other changes that could be shown upon

movement

diagrams, illustrating the

changing from

and

series to series

of the

numbers, in

class to class, but

it is

\Jx<x xvu^.

-*—*-

not intended to give a complete description of plex changes that are

made

all

the com-

in this branch of occult sym-

bolism, because the reader could not well understand

anyway.

Besides this he could not carry on the calculations

Ea\\\v. fir

»-

-a-

•

-A-

•

-»

•

-jB

M-

without the elaborate keys and tables necessary^

Should

time permit, I intend to get out a special

work on tarotology, with directions,

require

some time

much

all

in the

time and labor.

the key tarots, tables and future.

Such

work

will

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

224

In an impersonal card the one which

tarot, the "

ego square

always

occupied by the card having the smallest

solar value.

But

The following

called the "

tarot, class

from the fact that the alike.

by the birth

in a personal tarot, the square occupied

card of the person,

The

spirit

Ego

158 solar,

and

Square." is

very remarkable

solar values are so nearly

solar value, 158, being actually greater than

the spirit value, which

but 156.

MERCURY TAROT, CLASS

158, SERIES 621.

oXo

0% x^x

Class 158

entirely in

diamonds and spades, but the

other classes in same series are in other suits and are

devoid of the peculiarity mentioned. Class 158 contains 13,632 tarots. series 621

somewhat remarkable

quality, as its spirit is

One

class

belonging to

for just the opposite

more than three times

its

solar value.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. There are other members of this ill

various directions.

One of

225

series that are peculiar

the tarots in another class

oiven below as a sample from same

A MARS MALE TAROT, CLASS

series.

54, SERIES 136.

9 V 9 V 6 ^,

6 6 6 6

9 6 6

6 V ^

M wÂť

B Ht

6 6

V V

9 V

6^6

6 6

Solar value 54: spirit value 184:

number

of tarots, 13,632.

Strange to say, every class and series have their peculiarities

theirs.

in the

same way that people and animals have

Yet, like animals, and even vegetables, there

law that runs through

all,

that

manifest to us upon

examination in a certain geometrical form that exists with all tarots.

will next give

an example of a large

that belong in solar 96,

same

class as the

class of tarots

one given a few

pages back, that has a constant spirit of 248, positive. But, strange to say, this one, although of same solar is not spiritually perfect at all;

some

lines

adding

70,

class,

some

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

226

248 and some 159. There are a large number of " tarots, there series.

being no

Persons

who

less

off spirit

than a hundred t/iousand

in one

are born under the rulings of one of

these species, are of changeable, mixed astral development

and cannot be taught

spiritual things scarcely at

all.

SATURK, FEMALE TAROT, CLASS 108. SERIES 186. Solar 108: spirit 142:

number

in class 27,264.

ÂŤ

0^0 0^0

9^9

1.1

I23C

IIdL

Ei^l "*

But there

members

of the

wide diversity in even the component

same

perfect in spirit and

class, for

some

them

are nearly

some can be made perfect by one or

two negatives.

Another peculiar thing about

this

tarots is the fact that a transformation

particular class of

from one planet

another often changes certain squares to negatives and at the same time changes negatives to positives.

In other

words, the changes of the environment of the tarot changes

its

—

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. spiritual nature.

change in

spirit

Other

tarots,

227

given heretefore, do not

under environment.

MERCURY MALE TAROT FROM CLASS

96, SERIES 268.

^—

9 9

9 ,6 ^,

6 6

9 g 6 6 6

•

9 _._iJ

This would seem to be in perfect harmony with nature, as

we understand

it,

for

correspond to these two classes of

human who

often see people

tarots.

One

class always

remaining uniform in spiritual growth as well as in the inner

life;

spirit

and

the

same

the other class changing under environment, in life,

class.

so to be scarcely recognized as belonging to

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

228

the use of the negative of the 3 of spades the hori-

zontal and perpendicular lines are brought to 159, but the cross lines

X are each 248 and cannot

SAMPLE FKOM CLASS

changed by negatives.

96, SERIES 268.

—

*** '

—

« «

.0 0.

^00'

.o^oj J

This

a sample of the " off spirit " class, in second

third quarter emblems.

sions of spirits, like

its

has no

less

and

than three expres-

male mate above, in same

class,

CHAPTER Tfiie

Tarot and

tfte

Zodiac*

WHY THE SIXTEEN SQUARE TAROTS ARE

BIRTE TAROTS.

CALCULATIONS REGARDING THEM.

reason

why

the 4x4 tarots are considered as

birth tarots, are many. of

them

will give a

few

here, so that the reader can compre-

hend in a measure what

lies

beyond our ordinary

grasp.

In the

first

workers in the occult

place,

line,

anything that

should have within

used by

itself

con-

formity to the motions of the heavenly bodies and time.

Time is only an abstract, however, and does not really exist, for we can have no conception of time only as it measures the motion of something we are familiar with. Thus we say " day " to express the fact that the earth has revolved once upon its axis. We say year," as a convenient way of stating that the earth has performed a ^'

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

230

Of course we can divide and

revolution about the sun.

sub-divide these expressions for convenience sake; but fractions partake of the

all

same quality as the whole.

have shown how the Test Book conforms to time,

which

really motion,

will

now show how

the

sixteen tarot conforms to time and motion.

-*-

'*'

'^^'

-*'

-^-

-^'

ify

* :

â&#x20AC;˘*

^ ^

* y^-

Hi^

>ÂŤ-

5*e-

^M'

>>I-

M-

ILLUSTRATION OF A 4x4 TAROT FRAME.

The

tarot

frame given here

will be

the owner of this book to enter his

when he becomes

possessed of

it,

an excellent place for

own mathematical

thereby having

tarot

for pur-

pose of study and permanent record.

The perpendicular, middle

line, is

the horizontal line that crosses

the celestial meridian;

midway, is the

line of the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

231

Apsides, both lines corresponding to the same ones used

on the

celestial

These

sphere or the Zodiac.

the "Celestial Cross,"

(

quarters, corresponding

)

lines, called

divide the tarot into four grand

and the four

to the four seasons

quarters of the Zodiac, as well as the four chapters of the

Test Book.

Beginning

at the lower celestial

meridian the houses of

the Zodiac run around the outside in regular order as

shown incut. -Âť

-Âť

ri-

^i^

No,

10.

SIGNS OP THE ZODIAC ON TAROT.

The

central part

the

place of the

sun,''^

and represents

power and glory in the ancient symbolism. divided

into

four

quarters,

so that

the

It too, is

tarot

really

expresses, not only the twelve houses of the Zodiac, but the

four quarters at the same time.

The seven

planets and the earth constitute with their

satellites eight

grand centers of vibratory

magnetism, in our solar system. circle of planets in the

The 4x4

female line and

force, or astral

tarot with its

its cross, X,

in the

male line, represents them in their two-fold qualities, corresponding to the positive and negative in nature.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

232

Birth tarot No.

numbers one to

mathematical,

to sixteen joined together

form a complete and perfect

From

original

this

formed from the

under a certain law

tarot.

Mercury

tarot

all

the six thousand

eight hundred and sixteen mathematical 4x4 birth tarots are constructed.

FOKMATION OF TAROT NUMBER ONE. Begin at the upper

left

hand corner of the

and enter the numbers in regular order from

tarot

frame

left to right,

but only those which fall in the male cross Secondly, begin at the lower right hand corner and enter the

numbers

in the

that you only enter

same manner from right

them

illustrate the tarot thus produced,

numbers

to left, except

in the vacant female circle

showing the male

in black faced figures, the female in light.

this basic tarot all the Test

Book

From

tarots can be made.

Every perfect mathematical 16 tarot has the following peculiar properties: 1.

which sacred

The is

characteristic

number, found by addition,

34,

which, in turn, add

the

composed of 3 and

number

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Every perpendicular and horizontal

line,

233

8 in

number

add up 34 each. each add up 34.

The diagonal

The four sun squares

The

The two middle top squares

lines

in the center add just 34.

four corner squares add exactly 34.

the two middle bottom

squares equal 34. 7.

The

9 V V <0 6 6

side squares, corresponding to the last, add

0/vO

i 11 0^0

6 6 6 6 o o o o o THE WONDERFUL 36 TAROTS.

6 6 THE

" QUEEN"" TAROT.

34.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

234

Many lar in

form, and they are

Queen 117,

millions of these tarots are very beautiful and regu-

tarot

interesting.

all

The

solar value of the

171, spirit value 286, spot value 54, suit value

quarter value

15.

All

making

perfect

tarots

when

placed in frames by themselves.

The numbers

of these tarots are simply

comprehension.

number is

beyond the human

can be demonstrated by mathematics

number

that a certain the

them could be constructed, but

so great that they never can be all constructed.

They have the same

peculiar properties belonging to the

other tarots, only the poveers are greatly enhanced from the fact that a

6x6 tarot combines the properties of the 9 and 16

tarots together.

Thus, we can form a 36 tarot by combining four 3x3 tarots in a proper

manner, or we can make one by means of

the tarot frame of card emblems as

The following cut exhibits a 4x4 tarot.

shown

a 36 tarot

The one shown belongs

'â&#x20AC;˘

in the engraving.

frame " for holding

to the " Century tarots."

In the vacant square we produce an engraving which will be found useful to the student of phrenology and astrology

combined, but we will not enter into an explanation here. It

speaks for

Any

itself

inside of this

frame and form a perfect 36

the 16 tarots are lions of these

and

however.

one of the millions of century tarots will

made

brother,

number

sea for multitude/'

But milall sorts

making the permutations enormous.

who makes

that can be

into the

tarot, provided

of cards not in the frame.

frames can be formed, fitting around

classes of 16 tarots,

One

fit

made

a study of 36 tarots, said: " of them,

The

like the sands of the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Let us see

this

an exaggeration.

235

One pound

of fine

sand contains about 700,000 "grains," or particles of sand, as

found by counting and computation some years

since.

ÂŤ

9 6 6

6 6

9 9 9 9

6 6 9 6 6

9^9

6^6

9 9 6 6 C?

9 9 9r)9

6 6

9 9 9 6 6

6x6 FRAME FOR CENTURY TAROTS.

One ton

contains, on that basis, fourteen billion grains.

Oar earth would contain, provided its immense bulk was all made of sand, 84,966 septilUons of grains. But the number

of 36 tarots that can be constructed

from

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

236

the Mystic Test Book tion,

which

equal to the thirty-second permuta-

exactly:

268,130,836,933,693,530,167,218,012,160,000,000 or to express

more than two hundred and

in words,

to the conclusion that the

actually

more than equal

number

sixty-

Therefore we are forced

three thousand millions of septillions.

of these tarots possible,

would

to the particles of sand that

be contained in three jnilUons of such globes as our earth. If

look at

from another standpoint, we

astonished, for

less

number

find that

of perfect tarots, the

Book can be is

for all of the

number

one I

it.

enormous

ways that the Test

placed in the squares, tvithout forming a tarot^

so perfectly enormous, that the

encompass

none the

are

mind

There being more than a

man

cannot

billion non-tarots to

tarot.

from

aware that these figures

will lay

superficial thinkers, as did

open to criticism

statement in " Religion

of the Stars," relating to homeopathic attenuations.

any person wishes to take herein, let

him be sure of

me up

But,

statement contained

his figures before hand.

Several persons wrote to me upon the subject of the "homeopathic statement " I made oh page 128 of the Temple Lectures, where I said that the thousandth potency of

muriaticum contained

less

than a grain of

salt

natrum to

ten

thousand tons of sugar of milk, and a grain of that triturated with a million tons more of the sugar.

Some contended that the statement was " wild and untenTo satisfy myself as to whether I did make a able." " wild statement or a " mild " one, I began a careful math''

ematical examination of the question.

Friends, as I

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. livinf^

man, I did not dare publish

astounded at the truth when

Why, my

of sand, the truth would

the results.

found

the truth

statement one grain

the entire space covered by our

fill

cluster of over sixteen million suns; is

one called

was utterly

it.

much under

statement was so

regard to quantity, that,

237

which

so large that

estimated that light consumes fifteen thousand years in

crossing from one side to the other.

Not only

there would be enough sand left over to

more than fourteen thousand times

fill

this,

but

the same space

! !

CALCULATIONS OF POTENCIES. This

good a place

shall have to introduce the

rales for the calculations of potencies

The reason

for introducing

here

on the decimal system. is

for the purpose of

showing the connection between the mystic

star

and the

sources, that of the

pyramid

units of measure. It

has been found from

measure being a but are

many

prolific one, that

measures are not arbitrary,

based upon some fact in nature.

all

that the repetend that occupies the points of triangle, being as

it is,

a repetend of the sacred

should have some such connection. Let

be required, to find

The

not strange the double

number

seven,

on page 25. how many pounds of sugar star

of milk there would be, to one grain's weight of the drug, in a decimal trituration.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Let

represent any required potency.

Then begin on the top point of the star Then P and set down the number of spots on each card, passing 3=a;.

to the left on the star and

of the seven.

figures as

iviJl

Keep

this

making your

figures to the right

going until you have made as

he equal to x.

many

THE MY8TIC TEST BOOK.

238

This

a solution of the problem

What

one by ordinary mathematics. Avoirdupois weight

correct.

which

indeed a tedious

more,

used, as that

absolutely

it is

the one for

large weights.

EXAMPLE FOE PRACTICE.

How many grain of

pounds of sugar of milk would there

salt,

in a potency of 20, of

be, to

one

natrum muriaticum?

Ans. 14,285,714,285,714,285 or over fourteen quadrillions.

RULE NUMBER

find

how many

P â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 8=x.

potency, or

to the

tons of a trituration would contain one

Subtract eight from the number of the

grain of the drug.

Begin

II.

at the 7 point

amount of

Example:

and

set

down

the figures as in rule 1

This gives the answer in tons.

How many

tons of sugar of milk would con-

tain a grain of the active principle, at the 32d trituration, or

potency ?

Ans.

hundred

714,285,714,285,714,285,714,285,

over seven

sextillions of tons.

The statement made by me

in "

Temple Lectures'' was equiv-

alent to less than 20 sextillions of tons, so that

if I

the thirty-second potency, instead of the thousandth,

ment would then have been five I tice,

had

said

state-

far below the truth, or thirty-

times too small.

do not intend to throw a straw in the way of that prachowever.

used none other in

fact, I

a full believer in

family for years.

But

and have

do want to

impress upon the minds of our readers the great truth that the unseen astral potencies are stronger than the seen.

firmly believe that the potency of high homeopathic dilutions

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. and triturations are

in reality sjnrit potentials.,

heal through spirit power.

them or leave them

and therefore

conclusions; take

you choose.

Our sun, together with less

These are

239

all his

planets and satellites, weigh

than two octillions of tons.

Less than one-third of the

sugar of milk in the 36th potency, containing one grain of drug.

Our

entire system of suns are estimated at sixteen

and a half millions in number and would weigh about thirtythree million octillions of tons at the avei'age weight of our

own

This vast weight

solar system.

is less

than the amount

of the forty-third decimal trituration.

So many people

fail

through their inability to

grasp the wonders of

mathematical demonstration.

Book and

dous co-ordinations that exist with

emblems.

results

Such persons cannot under-

stand the wonders of the Mystic Test

Some

nature,

realize the cold facts revealed

its

the tremen-

think " chance" brings about the wonders,

when

the

cannot by any possibility be attributed to chance.

In the same way, dividuals,

common

many

erronious opinions are held by in-

which opinions would be

dispelled

sense resort to mathematics.

of people take up

by a

little

have had numbers

some statement of mine, such

as the

one

regarding the " curve of the earth's orbit," and show from their treatment of the subject that they

knew nothing about

the mathematical laws governing curves.

In view of

all

the foregoing facts, the reader need not

" wonder that the author regards the " Religion of the Stars as the divine religion of its priest

and interpreter.

man, and mathematical science

CHAPTER

Tfte

Word*

l^ost

XI.

ÂŠtfter

Won-

derfttf Fi^ttres* THE STRANGE CO-ORDINATIONS OF THE TRIANGLE.

JE have glanced briefly at the wonderful Egyptian tai'ots,

and we have but to

finish our

book

with a few other exemplifications of the mathematical co-ordinations of the

little

Mystic

Test Book.

We how

the book

fits

have already shown, in former pages, the Zodiac; one particular arrangement

being upon page 27.

Another arrangement

own

quarter,

such that each suit

spread in

its

and the spot values are just equal to the degrees

in each house.

The four

aces appear at the four corners

and

indicate the four quarters by suits; hearts, clubs, diamonds

and spades.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The

illustration,

on this page, shows

241

emblems

the

Twelve times thirty equals

the twelve signs of the Zodiac. 860, the degrees in the circle.

So the Test Book not only represents the days in a year but the degrees of the

each house

two

add

celestial circle.

nine,

inside ones add 21, that

The two

outside cards

the golden number^ is,

while the

three sevens.

THE WORD OF OEIENTAL MYSTICISM. " In the beginning

word has

its

was the word."

That

is,

the long-lost

foundations in the very beginning of

fundamental principles of nature.

life,

in the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

242

Thousands and millions of human students of magic and occult knowledge,

have searched for this word in vain.

Thousands have claimed the possession of

with no power

it,

or knowledge to back their pretentions.

Tho whole world has word', but It is

few can

beauty and

known on

round nor square, yet

" abideth with

two in one,

whole world knows

it is

man

for

all

this planet.

a thing of

it is

earthly time."

three in one, and

four in one.

Its principles " abideth eternal in the heavens."

God, yet

it is

The

word

for

It is of

man, and by man.

must not only be

lived

its

component

but each and every mystic syllable and even each

parts, letter

man,

the

word.

the most peculiar thing ever

It is neither oblong,

It is

the ivord; the

live the

must be

use

its

lived

by the mystic who hopes

be able to

wondrous power. permitted by the higher brotherhood, to give one

of the expressions of the

"Word," the

three, four

and

five

expressed in mystic emblems, forming the sacred triangle. It is

generally

known

that

Europe and Asia, regard

all

ancient secret orders both

this triangle as a significant

portion of their teachings. It is a basic, right-angled triangle,

with

its

sides in such

a proportion to each other that the smallest possible

numbers can represent each three, four and Jive.

of the sides.

whole

These numbers

being

The sides of all right-angled triangles have known mathematical property, that the square of plus the

square of the

square of the hypotenuse.

perpendicular, will

the well the base,

equal the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. To

find

243

numbers with these mathematical

not very easy, except by actual

relations is

with figures.

trial

take the base, haphazard, and perpendicular also,

you come

to square

them and add them

you

when

together, the

chances are very great that no root can be found to the

number produced by the

addition.

For example, take for the base, 3.

The sum

third side

of their squares

for the perpendicular,

equal to 13, therefore, the

equal to the square root of thirteen.

no such number

Any

1st.

There

really in existence, in the universe.

fraction, squared,

must on pure mathematical

principles produce a fractional number.

Two whole numbers added must produce

2d.

number.

a whole

Therefore a right triangle, such that the base

and perpendicular each squared and added together forms a whole number, cannot have a hypotenuse that can

found, unless

know

be in whole numbers.

that the squares of 9 and 16 have for their

number root. As we have shown heretofore, that a whole number cannot have a fractional root, because no fractional number in roots 3

and

therefore 13 can have no whole

existence can be squared so as to produce a whole number, it

follows that 13 can have no numerical square root.

root thereof

Our

readers

The

forever hidden from man.

may wonder why we

introduce this explana-

tion here.

The reason

practical, or

even theoretical mathematicians,

is this,

that those

who

are not

may thereby

understand the wonders connected with the word in relations to the

they

may

fully

emblems from the Magic Test Book.

its

That

understand that the wonderful co-ordina-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

244

tions that exist in the one phase given here, could not exist

by any system

of chance,

by any arbitrary arrangement

the emblems, or by any species of occult necromancy

known

human

beings.

MYSTIC TRIANGLE OF THE MAGI.

We gle, as

will

now

explain the symbolism of the mystic trian-

spread upon a diagram of the celestial

circle.

THE INNER AND OUTER, CIRCLES.

The inmost

circle,

" Circle of

Mercury,"

drawn

about the sun and just impinges upon the hypbtenuse of the triangle.

The

Venus

Circle "

touches the perpen-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The

dicular.

Mars

Circle " touches the base.

Jupiter, the intersection of the "

245

That of

base and perpendicular.

Saturn Circle " comes to the intersection of the base and

hypotenuse. "

tersection.

The "Circle of Uranus" strikes the third inNeptune Circle " encloses all and represents

the outer darkness.

Thus we have

the six points of this triangle represented,

although the relative distances of the circles do not corre-

spond

to the physical distances of the orbits of the planets

These

named. ples

circles all

have fixed mathematical princi-

and proportions, wholly separate and apart from mere

physical or concrete distance.

This being the case, the triangle can be conceived, of

any dimension whatsoever and the one actually given has the same qualities both mathematical and geometrical, as

one would have, that should extend from the orbit of Saturn on the second meridian to the orbit of Uranus,

where In

cuts the upper celestial meridian.

fact,

the same proportional triangle can be construct-

ed so as to impinge at the points shown on the diagram, with the actual orbits of any two planets that

may

selected,at one time.

The

triangle is

composing 3: 4: 0,

shown

in the illustration with the cards

placed so as to show the actual proportions

the cards thus forming by their number, the

first

shown from the Q values

primary representation of the sides of the triangle.

ThÂŤ next

co-ordination

the cards, which are as follows:

one heart=l, making

Base, two spades=8.

Perpendicular, one spade=4, two

diamonds=6, one club=2,

total

12.

Hypotenuse, two

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246

spa(ies=8, two clubs^4, one diamond=3, total 15.

square of

That

9+ the

square of 12 equals the square of

15.

81+144=-225.

is,

Next construct the

space,

The

triangle

from

suit values,

and

will use the initial letter of each of the

to save

names

the sides in place of the full name.

Suit

B=39+39+0=78. P=39+26+26+ H=78+26+26=l30. Now we apply the test

values.

13=104. and we

find that 78, 104

and 130 form a perfect

triangle.

TRIANGLE FROM SOLAR VALUES.

P=20+31 +29+40, total 120. H=19+18+43+42+28, total 150. Now we square these B=l+48-|-41,

totals

and

total 90.

find that the square of 90 plus that of 120, just

equals the square of 150, which

Another per-

22,500.

fect co-ordination.

Remember what we have

said about the difficulty of

forming perfect triangles with perfect

roots,

and then con-

sider the wonderful character of the above.

But exists.

add up

this

That

not

is,

all,

for another strange co-ordination

that the sides of the solar value triangle

exactly 360, the degrees in the circle.

either, for the triangle covers the

number

That

not

all

of houses with

each side that corresponds to the length of the sides and the solar values of each of these divisions exactly equals the degrees in the houses covered.

THE FINAL GRAND All of the ^bove to a higher

TEST.

wonderful enough; but now we come

and grander

test still,

one that

enough

almost take the breath away from a student of the occult,

and

make him bow down

awe before the

" little

book"

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. that possesses so

many mysterious and

247

divine attributes.

I confess that I should be afraid to give this final wonder,

were

not that

it is

mathematically demonstrable, so

that no skeptic can dispute

THE Take the

SPIKITS OF

it.

THE MYSTIC TRIANGLE.

The spirit

base.

of the ace of hearts

is 10,

of the

nine of spades 35, of the two of spades 54, a total of 99.

The

Take the perpendicular. is 22,

of the five of diamonds 43, of the three of diamonds 23

and of the ace of spades 44,

Take the hypotenuse. is

seven of clubs

spirit of the

total 182.

The

spirit of

the two of diamonds

13, of the three of spades 64, of the four of spades 74, of

the five of clubs 2 and of the six of clubs 12, which together

add up one hundred and

sixty-five.

Now, 99 squared^

9801. 182 squared=17424. 165 squared=27225.

17424=27225,

The

latter

last figures,

The reader

the

number and

will

As 9801+

numbers again represent a perfect

triangle.

represents the square of 15 in

two

27, the 8 times 9, in its first

remember the

relations of these

its

figures.

numbers

in the 3x3 tarot heretofore given.

Aside from the overpowering proofs furnished by the absolute demonstration by mathematics,

other peculiarities about the mystic triangle, best appreciated

notice

many

which can be

by those persons who have made the

journey " around the Zodiac."

For instance, as

it is

" eternal in the heavens,"

inasmuch

geometrically covers a given circle in the heavens in

any and

all cases.

always did;

always

will.

If every

planet, as well as our sun, was annihilated, or turned to cold barren masses, the "

word " would

still,

in the form

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

248

of this

grand

triangle, cover

heavens; would

We also

hold

still

its

majestic sweep of the

its

mystic sway forever and ever.

notice in some minute particulars, such as the

place of the Secret

Magi emblem

in the house of Libra

that the cards themselves occupy emblematic places. of spades occupies the " house of death."

The nine

The

quarter of love, with a heart

ace of hearts begins the

From

single to the labor of love.

that house

upward

the house of Virgo, each card corresponds in spot value to the house

occupies.

Coming down one, three,

five,

the line of the perpendicular,

we have the

seven, steps of the Mystic Temple.

each spot value to that of

its

Add

mate on the hypotenuse, be-

ginning at the apex of the triangle, and we produce

numbers which give the numbers

emblems

are placed

The sacred

triangle

emblem

line.

constantly showing itself in a multi-

tude of ways in tarotology. card

house where the

of the

on the perpendicular

It is truly wonderful to analyze

tarots in all their manifestations under various

conditions and to observe the peculiar triangular formations that manifest themselves.

the next page

give the birth tarot of Mrs. L. J.

Shafer, Grand Sentinel of the

Temple

at Chicago.

this particular tarot for the reason that

peculiar features,

among which

select

exhibits several

the " word " appears, exhibit-

ed in suits, in a variety of ways.

It is a "

mystic tarot " in

every sense of the word.

The reader

will first be

apt to notice the row of mystic

sevens running through the tarot.

and the strange part of

it is^

This

that in

a peculiar feature

all this line,

those four

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

249

sevens stay together, sometimes running from corner to corner; again forming a group of four in the center of the

But they invariably appear

tarot or in one corner.

the sixteen characteristic positions

in one of

which add 84

in the

numerical birth tarot.

9 9 9

ÂŤ

6 6

9 9 9 9

* * *

^ 0^0 0^0

f*.* 4

9 9 C)

o\J

9 9 9 6 The one given

132, series 231,

Venus

and the

series

tarot; solar

number

106, spirit

contains 74,976 tarots.

THE TRIANGULAR FORMATION. All through the tarot the right-angled triangle appears,

both in suits and spot co-ordinates.

For instance, the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

250

and 10 of spades as well

each group.

each suit forms in

So that what

as the 7, 8

itself

will be observed that

a counterpart of each of the others.

true of one,

and 9 form a triangle

examination

true of

all.

So we have eight

perfect right-angled triangles, in suits, in this tarot.

Next we observe that the three triangle

sixes are in the

form of a

on the right hand upper corner while the three

eights balance

them

a like triangle in the lower corner on

the same side.

SOLAR TAROT Nd. 116, SERIES 861.

6 6

^ V ^m

WSb

V 6 a d d

â&#x20AC;˘ N

Strange to say, ing

all

through

this series these

-ÂŤ ^

two co-ordinat-

keep their positions relative to each other

triangles

except that they revolve at

all

angles and sometimes form

larger triangles.

The number

of tarots having the triangular peculiarity of

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. their suit

numbers all

arrangement

in the

the other

We this

in great

century series and likewise extend through Their exact number has not yet been

lines.

computed, but

They appear

enormous.

251

extends into millions.

give a few isolated examples from various lines, on

and contiguous pages.

6 6 6 6

9 9 9 6 6

OoO

9^9 9 9 6^6

SOLAR TAROT NO. 112.

Number 116

SPOT VALUE 34.

solar, illustrates a peculiar feature of certain

lines of tarots.

The

reader will notice in different tarots,

also in the tarot given

a peculiar shape

shape in the light

suits

form

also reversed in the

same

on page 249, that the light

which appears suits.

The dark

suits also

part, or negative to the light ones.

only has this peculiarity in the horizontally, but

also

form a counter-

Now, number 116 not suits,

crossing the tarot

shows the same identical form,

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

252

court cards and

a curiosity,

common

cards alternated, perpendicularly.

will give a

wonderful court tarot in nine

squares, that enjoys the distinction of being the

of all tarots, is

inasmuch

but few of them

most unique

exist.

The same

true also of one co-ordinating tarot in clubs, diamonds,

and spades, the only

rival to the

The reader

one given.

wil/

notice that the three Queens form one diagonal in Oider to

make

the spot values 36, correct, while the other diagonal

contains the three clubs that are necessary to give the solar

and

suit values.

In no other way can a tarot be formed in

three suits.

the following page

we give

a mystic chart that has

been in the archives of the Order for ages. sents a magic square of words in the

the letters are so arranged that a

first

number

repre-

square, where

of the symbolic

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

253

words used by the Order are to be found in the readings up, down, across and diagonally.

all

other produc-

emanating from the Ancient Brotherhood, the word

tions

"Magic" appears

and the sacred

across the middle

occupies the place of light in the center.

T U R N

E H

MAH

P L E V E L 1

At the other proved thus

J42857J M 5 le 15 1 2 K 4 3 13 14 r^tc

side

111

R D H

A C

Up s

N K C

who have attempted

was evidently constructed by

magic square appears, that has

a " sphinx " to all

far.

Ul (D

E M P E

A P

its

solution

a brother of the

Order, as appears in the diagonal line, but what the mean-

ing can be no one knows.

Some think

has some con-

nection with our Temple at Memphis, while others see

that way.

moderns and

At any will

rate the

remain so until some person solves

The only explanation

the riddle.

come down

to us with

fail to

words are unintelligible

it, is

that

that has survived and

contained a secret of the

Order, the key to which was thrown away by a "brother of the sacred line,"

order that

all

was placed

in the mystic chart in

mystics might have a chance to study

have only given a few points in this Avork, upon a

subject that

practically infinite.

have given enough,

however, to lead any mystic mind forward

more for

sands

it.

light.

The

a search for

light will be found, too, by those Avho seek

in the right spirit.

who

read this book

know, of course, that thou-

will feel

an ambition

to be able to

exhibit the mystic powers that they have read of.

all

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

254

such we would respectfully say, that the secret source of knowledge, froni whence comes the astonishing prognostica-

have bewildered sages and philosophers and

tions that

classes of people, are

The world had

now open

to wait

all

but a few.

two thousand years for even one to

mantle and be invested with the tremendous

receive the

responsibility.

He who

not

fit

to be a student,

cannot

hope to aspire to be a teacher. Again, the truth should be able to stand alone, regardless of he

who

utters

it.

You do

not need a commission from on

high to enable you to help in spreading the light. Friends,

are nearly at the

end of our present

edition.

well the proofs given here of a divine purpose, a

Weigh

divine plan; not the arbitrary wish or thought of one being,

one soul, but the concensus of all

soul, all being.

Consider the mathematical demonstrations exnibitea in this

work and

in other

works upon co-ordinating

lines,

and

then ask yourselves the question:

COULD ALL THIS COME BY CHANCE?

We mere

should emphatically say not. Avords,

of ideas.

which are

see this done in the pulpit

rostrum, as well as in the press.

Figures

ivill

Men may

not

lie.

juggle with

at best but arbitrary representatives

But

and upon the

figures are facts.

They have the habit

truth in tones of thunder.

up against the dogmas

of speaking

All the arguments ever brought of the church,

would not have

shaken her hold upon the minds of the people

But the

cold, sharp,

an age.

unyielding and glittering blade of the

sword of truth, has been wielded by the mailed hand of mathematical law, and the props of superstition are gradually

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. but surely yielding and falling before

The

first

its

255

tremendous sweep.

been smashed by the

chapter of Genesis has

The story of Joshua and the Sun, has

figures of geology.

been knocked to atoms by the figures of astronomy.

The man-made Jehovah of his place in Siderial

of the Bible has been driven out

the heavens,

The

investigation.

by the wondrous figures ridiculous

ascending

idea of

into heaven bodily, being resurrected in the flesh and going to

heaven in that form, together with hundreds of other

childish conceptions of the past, are gradually being wiped

out by the figures belonging to philosophy, chemistry and other scientific branches. Last, but not least, the old conception of

the

numan

soul

and body existing by some act of special creation; or the grandest product of the earth, the

human mind,

the entity,

being the growth of a few weeks; or a few months, together with the erroneous belief that " tiny," or, in fact, all

must

turn

anything

fall,

man

else

controls his

own

des-

but a creature of the Law,

before the sublime demonstrations

furnished by the figukes of mysticism.

Test

IBooft Suppremetit^

DIRECTIONS FOR DELINEATING A GRAND SPREAD, ILLUSTRATED IN DETAIL. — TAROTS AND TRANSFORMATIONS — TAROT LAWS. —MORE ABOUT THE WORD TRIANGLE. — HOUR RULERS, MINUTE CARDS- AND

AND READ

OF SAME.

OTHER MYSTIC AND INTERESTING

FACTS.

j^HE first edition of the Mystic Test Book was but fairly out when we realized that many persons could not understand what we thought such plain directions for laying a grand

spread as are given on pages 56 and 57.

Some

which

could

not

understand

side to sit on," or

whether

lines ran across or lengthways. aid the

tant subject,

on a

table,

understanding of this impor-

have had an engraving made of a spread laid

with the planets at the end of each planetary

line, place of sitter and reader, sun cards and all complete.

The

cards are laid from the side of the delineator to the

other side for each planet, beginning with Mercury and end

ing with Neptune, and then the

last three in

same way

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. the sun row at top.

257

The "Life Lines" run up and down

the table, crossing the planetary lines.

Some persons

write to

know "which one

various definitions given under a card in the tables right one."

the

this question I can only say that "cast-iron

rules " cannot be given in

meanings

of the

such a work.

as nearly as possible.

1 give

the various

The delineator must con-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

258

sider the

environments of the person and the positions of

other cards in the layout, in determining which

the cor-

Sometimes more than one of the clauses

rect definition.

are indicated simultaneously.

made on the above spread reproduced by lines to make it plainer:

The following and the cards

delineation

V V V

* *

DELINEATION UNDEE MEECURY.

The past shows an

obstacle to your gaining certain knowl-

edge which you have craved, which obstacle you have greatly

overcome through your power and perseverance.

shown much courage, and have worked the help of a middle-aged gentleman, to you,

steadily until,

who

a good friend

you have achieved success in gaining knowledge

which largely pointment

months

You have

;

effects

will

your future success.

arise,

A sudden disap-

in a pecuniary way, before

a change of

employment and

many

a journey will be

necessitated therebv.

9^9

9 6

DELINEATION" UNDER VENUS. Indecision and perplexity regarding a love affair ted in the past lady,

;

which terminated unfavorably and caused the

some money

indica-

and a co-partnership or undertaking with a

to yourself.

You have many friends

loss of

at present,

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. and make friends

easily.

One person

259

you very

loves

truly;

but the ace of hearts following the ten shows that the love is

kept secret and will not be revealed for some time to come.

You have a friend, who is a very intelligent lady. You will many times during the coming year, and you will enjoy her society very much. You will gain much knowlsee her

edge of her, which will be a great satisfaction to you, as

you have an ardent love of wisdom and knowledge. union of hearts

indicated,

and a possible marriage in the

near future.

a* DELINEATIOIf

military

man

shown

in your past,

siderable influence over you.

been caused by the

ill

UNDER MARS.

success of a certain

intrusted with a business matter.

produced in your

A he

affairs,

future.

man whom you

change was thereby

and a quarrel which

youngish gentleman, a lawyer, is

and he has had con-

Quite a disappointment has

yet pending.

a friend of yours,

and

money-making man, and will prosper greatly in the This man has met with a disappointment, caused

by the death of a prominent man, which produced a great

change in his past

A law suit,

life.

or some kind of a pecuniary matter, with con-

siderable uncertainty attached, eventually results satisfactorily for

your interests and labor.

a gentleman in

co-partnership with

some pecuniary undertaking

future under the planet.

shown

in the

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260

9 9

6 6

0^0 DELINEATION UNDER JUPITER.

business journey

shown

in the past,

which changed

the conditions of yourself and a friend, and resulted in a

money now between two gentlemen

pecuniary transaction in which the friend made more

There

than you did.

a secret

regarding that business transaction.

In the future, the king of diamonds indicates a wealthy

man whom you you

will obtain a co-partnership with, in

This

shown by the two

The ten

of clubs.

indicates great success in this enterprise, and

considerable

which

knowledge which you possess.

will contribute certain

money through

diamonds

will

make

illness of

some

you

the co-partnership.

9 9 6 6

d 6 DELINEATION UNDER SATURN.

The seven lady.

of spades

shows in the past an

This illness interfered with a wish which you had to

gain certain knowledge, and in consequence the opportunities for

gaining that particular information have been unsat-

isfactory

and monotonous.

You

will

soon meet a lady of

means and business capacity and great

abilities,

exert considerable influence over your affairs.

grow to love with a rebuff.

her, but will

meet with a

The nine of hearts

who You

will

rejection, or at least

indicates a disappoint-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. ment

The

in love, entire

and following the

shows a quarrel.

seven,

under Saturn indicates more or

la3'out

trouble in your love

less

affairs.

DELINEATIO]Sr

The three

261

of spades

UNDEE URANUS.

shows an indecision regarding a jour-

ney, which is connected with

some kind

work and

iness transaction in which a real estate dealer,

knave, bears an important part.

The

shows that an actual transaction in

a bus-

shown by the of

diamonds

real estate

was made,

five

which resulted in better opportunities and more power for yourself.

man

Another

real estate dealer, older

of large experience,

than the former

comes into your

life

soon, and

your labors take on a high form of success, and you gain in

wealth through the sale of property.

The four

of diamonds shows

pecuniary standpoint, and

many

much

satisfaction

from a

deals of a successful char-

acter. 4k

133

9 V V ^ 6 6

ÂŤ

i.^S

DELINEATION UNDER NEPTUNE.

The nine

of clubs

shows a disappointment regarding a

long journey which transpired a year or two ago.

journey was to be to eled a great deal.

visit

The

a kind hearted lady,

who has

six of hearts indicates a

This trav-

monotonous

THE MYOTIC TEST BOOK.

262 life

for a time, which ends, as

shown by the four of

spades

a traveling man,

travel with for a time.

whom you

The journey

will soon will

clubs,

The knave

in a short, pleasant journey just completed.

meet and

be monotonous,

although pecuniary successful.

The eight tance,

of spades shows a business interest at a dis-

and a control of many

Concentration of

laborers.

efiPorts.

A GENERAL DELINEATION. The ruling sun card

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;ace of diamondsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;indicates that an

ardent desire you once had for riches has

The

now

departed.

three of clubs shows that a certain indecision regarding

a religious opinion or doctrine has departed.

The four

hearts in the sun shows that a satisfaction you once enjoyed in the love of a certain person has disappeared.

The past,

future shows

more brightness

for

you than

in the

but the disappointments are pretty near evenly bal-

anced.

past, in

Neptune, extending upward to Jupiter, and then

peculiar line of court cards, beginning under the

dropping down in the immediate future to Neptune, indicate that the majority of persons with

whom you

associate

and

do business with are connected and acquainted with each other.

This condition will remain about one year longer,

when

there seems to be a complete change of associations,

and a breaking up of old

companion the

Your

ties.

latter part of

One

your

lady only will be your

life.

birth card, the knave of diamonds,

surrounded as follows, the card

itself

immediately

being indicated in

the lay out by a button placed thereon

The ten

of hearts, under Venus, just above the Birth

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. you have

Card, shows that

The

disposition.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;just

263

a very affectionate

ace of spades

and loving

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the secret and mystic card

below, indicates a mystic disposition and a love of

secret, unusual

knowledge.

in a state of indecision,

Your money

and you do not

10 H

IH 3D

feel

wholly settled,

7D 5C

affairs are usually

POSITION OF PEKSONS' BIRTH CARD.

and

desire a

change of business.

This

indicated by the

five of

clubs and three of diamonds on opposite sides of your

birth

card.

The cornering cards

are not so significant, but

the ace of hearts indicates a desire for love and affection,

and the jack of hearts indicates a true friend.

DELINEATION OF SIGNIFICATORS,

They are well

Significators.

distributed, falling, as they

do, under all the seven planets. life, at

present,

ruling with you

This indicates that your

well balanced, and the three success cards

now

are indicative of future success in

your

undertakings.

The four of spades labors.

The eight

indicates a satisfaction in your future

of diamonds, a power in pecuniary affairs,

and the six of clubs, a slow gaining of knowledge. queen, ruling under Neptune, indicates a loving affects

your

life

The

woman who

strongly.

The good and bad

well balanced,

and the

red and black emblems are not in long diagonal

lines, as

with

many

persons.

in your life

This fact indicates that you do not

hold to one line of thought, action or labor for a long period at a time.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

264

Your

life

has presented a variety of

but not a great variety of

human

effects

and events,

friendships and compan-

ionships.

TAKOTOLOGY. matter of regret that we have been unable to get

It is a

out a complete work on tarots ere

demand have

The work

therefor.

this, as

find a large

under way, and we hope

out before the end of 1896.

In the meantime we

make

will

a few additions to the

matter already given.

QUADRATION OF TAROTS.

A number

of Mystics

have been considerably interested

in this phase of tarotology, so

the knowledge of

we have resolved

to all our readers.

extend

The quadration

of a

makes changes therein which the ordinary duplex

tarot

changes under the various planets, according

diagrams

to the

The quadratic change

on pages 222 and 223, do not make.

seems to run through several different branches of a given

and

series,

to unfold

To perform

many new

the quadrate, take any card tarot

example, No. 96, on page

hand corner, place the

Then

218â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and

first

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; say, for

begin at the lower right-

card on the one next above

place the two cards on the third, and so on.

four are piled up, place the pile,

tom card case

characteristics.

of next row,

we have before

and

still

it.

When

face up, on to the bot-

on until

all

are piled.

us the eight of hearts

In the

put on the ace

of clubs, those on the five of diamonds, those on to the four of spades,

and those on

to the

two of spades, and so on, end-

ing with the ace of spades.

Now

turn the cards over and deal the two top ones face

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. down on

265

the table, together, not changing the order of them.

Let us say there

a Zodiac on the table, for the purpose of

this description,

although not necessary for the experiment.

Say you put the

first

two cards in the heart quarter.

Now

put the next two in the second, or club quarter; the next

two

and next two in the fourth, and so on again

in the third,

until all are dealt. ter precisely as

Then

Now

gather them on to the

first

quar-

you do in performing any quadrate.

lay out a

new

tarot by placing the top card at the

left-hand top corner, and the next to right of as you would read a book.

it,

and so on,

As an example, we show

the

result of the first quadrate:

t ^

6 6 4 o 0\

-li

9 Z> V Z> 6 6 A

9 9 6 d

careful examination of this tarot and the original

shows

several wonderful changes, on comparison. First, the original tarot

runs two hearts with two spades

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

2(56

and two diamonds with two clubs on

what the

all

the lines across, or

called the duplex formation; while up and

down and

quadruplex, or each line containing four

But the new X, which

tarot is quadruplex

all

suits.

the lines except the

duplei.

o o

o o o

d 6 6

0^0

o o

o <0 a d d

* *

6 o

a 6

y o o o o

a a o c

* *

â&#x20AC;˘

Second, the tarot negative.

on the ace

d d d d

completely changed from positive to

If the first tarot is regarded as a

of spades,

Mercury

tarot

has been changed into a Jupiter femi-

nine tarot.

Furthermore, every male square emblem has changed over to a female square.

other manipulation

completely change a tarot in

known can

its characteristics.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. An examination

267

of the last engraving will

show anyone

the transformation which takes place under quadration. Starting with No. four suits on

is, all

we have a duplex formation; that

all

the lines except the diagonals, with

one court card on each line everywhere. duplicate, quadruplex on all the

duplex tarot; that the

No. 4

plex.

is, all

No. 2

No.

lines.

a female

a male

the lines are in two suits, except

the fifth quadrate, again

it is

a full quadru-

have not called attention to half the changes, but

the Mystic reader will notice the

and other things about

way

the court cards change,

it.

This series of tarots also has the peculiarity of the "spot values" adding thirty-four, exactly the same as the

number

tarots.

In No. 4 we find the conditions of suit formation restored, as in No.

But the

tarot

changed

in sex,

and the posi-

tion of the colors are, therefore, exactly reversed.

In many tarots the quadrate piles

be cut and then quadrated,

Some

of our

ways

all

may be

gathered on to other

than the heart quarter, and there are some which can still

forming perfect

members have quadrated

possible,

tarots,

their individual tarots

and have recorded each

result in a

book

for purposes of study.

The change taking

place in the next tarot shows the usual

quadruplex changes, and also changes the duplex positions of the emblems, so that such appear only in the

all

of this

we have not taken note

of the spirits of the

But the same wonderful changes have manifesWherever ted themselves there, as well as in the physical. the physical is displaced anywhere there is always a corre-

emblems.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

268

spending astral movement, which

usually even greater in

influence than the physical movement.

QUADEATE OF TAROT NO.

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122,

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9 9 6 6 MOVEiMENTS UNDER QUADRATION.

The movement which takes place with any number under successive quadrations is peculiar.

particular

the succeeding page an engraving will be found, which

graphically illustrates the four phases under quadration.

The same diagrams

also illustrate the

movements of

all

the emblems by one quadration.

Diagram

A gives the

movements which take place on one

on another.

In addition to this there are two

line,

and

movements

called "vibrators,"

which correspond exactly

which form the cross

the vibrators of the triple quadrate

the heavens.

DiasrraraC shows the vibrators.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. It is a curious fact that

the same as B, yet

A, turned bottom up,

takes both

269

movements

exactly

to cover all the

tarot except the vibration squares.

DIAGRAM

Now, form" 222,

we take

DIAGRAM

a tarot and quadrate

under Jupiter, according

we have

a female

Mercury

from the

original

show the

direction of the

tarot.

and then "transdiagram three, on page it,

The

entire

movement

very regular in a quadrilatural motion, as illustrated in diagram D. The arrows tarot

movements.

By an examination of diagram D we notice that each line composed of the emblems which, in the original, occupied the corners of quadrilaterals, and therefore we are able to formulate the general law that it

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

270

Ani/ tarot can he quadrated perpendicular and

a perfect tarot when the four

-four horizontal

parallelograms are perfect

thirty -fours.

With

card tarots this

"'number'''' birth

tarots I

common characteristic, but with know of but three hundred and

eighty-four which have the perfection of quadratic formation.

There are other

series,

however, which exhibit the

quadratic thirty-fours in other situations.

been called " the IS first

cousin to

wonderful

;

wonder

it,

tioned, as one

but another

called the " cross series,"

so I have

will take

series,"

This

named the other

series has

series, is

which

even more

" the quadratic series."

specimens and exhibit the peculiarity men-

would scarce notice

unless attention was

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. particularly called to

Sun

tarots in the

it.

These quadratic

271

tarots are called

Quadratus used in the Temple at Chicago,

BIRTH TAKOTS OF THE QUADRATIC SERIES. 1

The marvelous number

of quadratic forms,

thirty-four in the above tarots,

ring to the diagrams. thirty-fours.

tain eight It

is,

D contain

illustration, E, F,

H, however,

which add up

best understood by refer-

A, B, C and

In the next

9 7

a pair which

ten quadratic

G and H

all

con-

tarots have.

like the quadrate of the four corners and four inner

squares,

common

to all tarots.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

272

Now,

sum up

one of these

the thirty-fours in

all

numerical tarots: Quadratics on diagrams A, B, C,

Corner and center quadrates, Diagonals

of tarots,

common

Quadratics on diagrams E, F, G,

Perpendicular lines

4 4

Horizontal lines

Total

Common

.30

to all tarots

Extra above the

Just equal to the number

of squares in the birth tarot.

The following specimens "cross" in the

least quadratic

are tarots

the wonderful

because a number of them are used

series, so called

unfoldment of the magic cube into the magic

cross.

They are not only remarkable from their quadratic qualities, but they

all

have the strange peculiarity that any line can

be taken

off

of any side and

moved

to the other side, or top

bottom anywhere, without injury to the 14

tarot.

12.

SPECIMENS OF CROSS TAEOTS

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

MALE.

There are 384 of these tarots on record in the archives of the Magi.

On page 274 we

Cross," from one of the

of careful study, as

give the celebrated " Tarot

Grand Temple

shows wonderful

charts.

It is

worthy

characteristics,

which

go to prove that the "Cross," as a magic emblem, belongs to the Magi.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

273

Originating in the southern heavens, in shining stars,

belongs to the ^''Religion of the Stars.'" It is also "

formed from the unfolding of the geometrical

magic cube," held in such high estimation by the ancients.

The peculiar quality the cross tarots

of "side tranposition

such that we can place

gether in a section, from which we can take

of sixteen as

belonging to

many tarots toas many squares

please in any direction, side ways or bottom

up, and half of these will be perfect tarots.

In some card

tarots every square is perfect.

The diagram on ics

this

page

illustrates

not given in preceding diagrams.

cross tarots carefully,

some

of the quadrat-

Nom' examine the

and note the wonderful quadruplex

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Remember

character of them. fours, or

what

are

common

that the

called " constants,"

275

number

thirty-

fourteen,

"variables," as they are called, a cross tarot has as fol-

lows:

Quadrilaterals like diagram

ÂŤ...

C...

L.... 4

M....

N.... 2 P.... 4

Total variables

Grand

Total constants

total

In other words the quadratic and line thirty-fours are equal to just twice the squares of the tarot.

There are

other quadratic thirty-fours not given in the above.

have few;

tarots

exhibited.

The

others nearly as

tarot

many

still

Some

as the samples

which represents a given person has

the qualities of the person so represented.

Some persons

have high geometrical natures, others are low geometrically. This

beautifully illustrated in the combination or super-

imposing of tarots of males and females.

But that subject

cannot be taken up in this work, but will be fully exemplithe work which I shall soon publish, devoted exclu-

fied in

sively to tarotology.

a curiosity

we herewith

quadruplex character. rate of

To the

give a tarot with very slight right will be found the

Quad-

it:

examination of No. 2 will show that the quadrate has

knocked out every thirty-four

it,

except the diagonals X?

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

276

and they have survived the wreck by being composed of the

two common quadrates, H, of diagram on page 271. 9

SINGLE FEMALE, NO MATE.

also find,

erals of

from

SAME QUADRATED.

this illustration, that the

one tarot form the

H quadrilat-

of ^he next in the quadratic chain.

GENERAL TRANSFORMATION OF TAROTS.

Some

students have requested

to exhibit

some

of the general changes which can be applied to all tarots,

which while changing part of the intact.

There

are a large

number

tarot, leave other parts

such changes, some of

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. which only apply to particular kinds of

277

In the next

tarots.

The

illustration the first three are general transformers.

show which numbers

lines

a transformer of only the

the transformation

No. 1

tarot.

No.

Number

are to be exchanged.

XX tarots, so called because X in the middle of the

makes a double

called the " Braider;" No.

the " Grosser;"

the " Twister," by manipulators of the tarot blocks

or emblems.

All these devices apply with even greater power to the tarots of the mystic text book.

SAMPLES OF DOUBLE

TAEOTS.

The

XX tarots

all

have

11 " " the characteristics of the Star

formation (see page 270).

Tarots of the

formation

can be transformed from male to female by simply moving the two outside lines

in,

and the inside

lines out.

See same

diagram for A. OO-OEDINATING TWELVES,

There

a regular system of co-ordinations existing be-

tween the various combinations of twelves and the outer circle of the tarot.

This

work of the Cabala; but this

entered into more fully in the

I will

give a few of the pointers in

work, preparatory to that more advanced.

illustration of this series gives the

The

first

house signs of the Zodiac,

with the four planets occupying the "sun place," which rule the characteristics of the quarters.

Uranus, in the

first

quarter, signifies spirituality.

Nep-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK

278

tune signifies knowledge gained by travel; Mars, conquests

force,

and Mercury short journeys by land or water.

SIGNS OF

The next

THE ZODIAC CO-ORDINATED.

illustration

shows the months

ordinated in the same manner. in the heart quarter, ruled ter,

ruler of wealth,

of the year co-

The spring months coming

by Venus.

The

fall,

under Jupi-

and the winter, or death months, under

Saturn, the spade ruler.

The Earth,

in the fall of the year,

when

the crops are

turned to wealth, in September, October, and November, represents the

diamond quarter.

In the co-ordination of the Tribes, Jupiter represents

"Power"

in the Club quarter;

Mercury, sex love in the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

279

Heart quarter; Mars, conquest of Arms iu the Diamond quarter; Saturn representincy death in the Spade quarter.

MONTHS CO-OEDINATED.

The

third illustration of this series exhibits the co-ordi-

nations of the twelve tribes of Israel in their relations to

Remember

the mystic tarot.

ment

that this wonderful arrange-

borne out and proved by the laws of the Cabala,

which work

I shall

hereafter bring out.

THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.

The

entire Jewish Cabala^ in fact the entire bible, presents

a mass of evidence regarding the mathematical arrangement of all the twelves, and their squares.

also

names

fit

exactly into the tarot

do the Disciples of Jesus

fit

the Zodiac

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

.280

and the

ment

fcarots.

The next

illustration exhibits the arrange-

of the twelve Disciples, according

the tarot and

Cabala laws.

There

a strange circumstance in connection with this

set of twelves.

Judas comes in the " house of death," and

the quarter of Saturn, the planet of death, and he was the

\J0S^PHnrBlN-JJUlA^|REUBENniS\MEON: THE EULINGS OF THE TWELVE TKIBES. one who betrayed the Master with a

when Judas was out

kiss.

Furthermore,

of the circle the other Disciples chose

another one to take his place, and this one exactly takes the place of Judas in the Cahala of Magic^ which will be

seen

when

that

work

published.

Judas

not placed in

the house of Pisces arbitrarily, but he comes there according to the Bible and the law of Mvsticism.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. There

281

a deep significance to all these co-ordinating

twelves, which,

when properly understood, opens upon Mystic Philosophy.

the door

to a flood of light

THE TWELVE

DISCIPLES.

Venus, in the heart quarter, representing love ship; Terra, the Earth,

and friend-

power under clubs; Neptune, repre-

senting the diamond quarter, as a diamond ruler; Saturn

again signifying death.

The next plate of the

cut represents the twelve stones in the breast

High

Priest.

the seven planets,

tioned in each of the

None

There are

just seven stones, ruled

and these seven stones are lists

in Genesis

of the others are in both

lists.

all

men-

and Revelations.

One

list is

that of

the twelve "foundation stones" of the temple upon high.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

282

The

stones ruling under the seven planets will be given

here to accommodate several persons

them. find

this

all

who have asked

series of illustrations

which Tribes, Disciples and Stones rule

for

the reader will in each house of

the Zodiac, by noticing the co-ordinating places on the tarot.

THE TWELVE PKECIOUS STONES. In the mention of these twelve stones in the bible, particular stress

laid

upon the arrangement of them into

This has a peculiar significance. of this book, I

may have

" rows."

Perhaps, before the close

a place where I can present these

stones in these " rows " for our Mystic friends to study over, in order to see what mystic quality they have in those positions.

The next engraving shows what stones

rule under the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

283

These are the recognized

seven planets, and also the Earth.

rulers under the ancient reckoning, but all stones can

assigned to some planet, under the law of vibration.

THE RULING STONES UNDER THE PLANETS. Since the publication of the

Test Book, I have had a appreciative persons

first

large

who have

edition of the

number

Mystic

of letters

from

studied the wonderful co-

ordinations set forth regarding the triangular formation of

the Grand Word.

One

first-class

mathematician wrote:

"Any person who

understands the branch of mathematics applying to right-

angled triangles, cannot but admit the existence of higher intelligences in the universe

than physical men, when he

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

284

observes the wonderful triangle." all

co-ordinating

numbers

noted Chicago writer said:

mysteries, all assumption and

all

festations connected with that well

that

"Laying

aside

ordinary magic mani-

known combination

called 'playing cards,' the co-ordinations

found in Prof.

Richmond's demonstration of the Mystic Triangle,' alone '

THE MYSTIC TKIANGLE. any intelligent person of the magic

sufficient to convince

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one might almost say divineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; therein."

tant co-ordination for

Some

qualities of the

In setting forth the work,

ten or twelve of

wrote and spoke to

T left

emblems

one very impor-

readers to discover for themselves.

them did make the of the sa'me.

discovery, and

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. It

even

285

As wonderful

as the other co-ordinations are,

the spirit values are

thrown into the shade by the

is this:

strange fact that the negative spirits also co-ordinate and

form another

perfect triangular representation of the word.

The diagram 284

The negative The negative The negative

Showing I

wonderful expression. Base add up.

spirits of the

168

the Perpendicular add up. .224

spirits of

spirits of the

Hypotenuse add up

The square

168=28224

The square The square

224= 50176

280=78400

280

a perfect right-angled triangle.

have said nothing heretofore regarding the interweaving

of the sacred a

of negative spirits given herewith on page

illustrates this

little

negative

in this work, of the triangle.

Out of

here.

spirits,

that

I will notice

just 24 figures representing the

equal to the hours in a day, one-

fourth of them are sevens.

That

much

larger per cent-

age than would come under a law of "chance," one-tenth being the average.

Then, again, seven times twenty-four

make

these

same numbers

168, the base of the negative spirit triangle.

Seven times the Solar Constant, perpendicular.

The sum

32, is equal to 224, the

of the squares of 24 and 32=1600,

the square root of which, 40, multiplied by 7=280, the

hypotenuse of the negative that the 7

triangle.

This shows clearly

not in there by chance, but for business.

any opinion, there

more divine law and

inspiration illus-

trated in that triangle, as a whole, than can be found in all

the "sacred" books in the world, except one.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

286

THE QUADEATIC EMBLEMATIC If

take a " solar book/'

which

CROSS.

one arranged accord-

ing to the solar values of the emblems, and deal

onto the

Zodiac from Aries around to Pisces, placing the four last on |-he

Sun, we get an arrangement

Now

engraving. test

triple

as illustrated in the

quadrate them from the solar

book, and then lay them on again in the same way,

will find that four of the

exchanged

places.

The

emblems have "vibrated," or

ace of clubs changes with the

two

of hearts, while the nine of hearts exchanges with the seven of

diamonds.

This exchange

and the two vibrations form the it has been called.

marked on the diagram,

Shadow

of the Cross," as

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287

the cross, where the horizontal crosses the upright

shaft, the jack of hearts is found,

matter

how many

and he remains

there,

quadrations are made, with the king of

spades at the bottom.

As the jack

of hearts represents the " Christ principle "

in nature, this emblematic representation

from the fact that not arbitrary.

it is

interesting,

naturally mathematically fixed, and

In that respect the remarks applied

to the

mystic triangle will hold good here.

THE PERIHELION

CEOSS.

Although the layout above shown

starts at Aries, at the

lower Celestial Meridian, the natural Zero point of the present day, and thereby exhibits the Quadratic Cross lying across the Zodiac,

it is

far

in accordance with esoteric

practice to begin the deal of the layout in Cancer. First, the year begins there, the

long journey from Cancer. the Earth.

Third,

Earth starting

Second,

it is

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that

of Jesus, the date

is,

its

a point in the heavens

which seems

mankind

for the birth

a point near the Apsides.

In the case

it is

to have been universally selected by of Saviors

the perihelion of

comes within

less

than four degrees of

that line.

The layout which produces the Cross from the deal

shown

in the next engraving, and, to

perihelion

make the Cross

striking, the rest of the cards are omitted,

and the

ones only put in which are covered by the Cross.

This arrangement seems to be even more remarkable than the other, for the foot of the Cross sets in Pisces, which rules the feet, but

symbolism.

it is

also the '4i.ouse of death," in Mystic

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288

The

top of the cross

in Virgo.

It is a significant fact

that the representative of Christ on the Cross comes in the

House

of the Virgin.

there.

Another thing

He is

"born'' there and remains

worth noticing, too; that

although there are two success cards on the

is,

that,

cross, they are

outweighed by the two nines and two sevens, indicating

disappointment and trouble.

I was showing this Cross to a

Mystic friend a while ago, when he exclaimed: the nail holes!"

"Oh!

see

pointed to the ace of clubs on the

left

and the two of hearts on the right hand.

Everything goes

show that the Christ, or Diyine things, like the mystic word

principle,

triangle,

one of those fixed

which

bound

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emblems.

in the mystic

289

Any unprejudiced

can see with half an eye that the

little

person

book, which

" Cross " to carry before the world, has within itself the per-

As the author of the " Pappus Planetarium " enthusiastically exclaimed once to me " That fection of divine symbolism.

little

book has got the whole history of the world

we knew how

to read it."

Every time

attempt to write about

it, if

I think he was pretty near right. it

am overwhelmed

with new and more wonderful developments. Oh, bnt

about

it is

a heavy cross to carry, there

no mistake

that.

GENERAL LAWS GOVERNIKG MYSTIC EMBLEMS. Every division of time, used by men, has

its

particular

ruling card.

Thus, in addition to year cards and day cards, there are

hour cards, minute cards, and even second cards, ruling in various orders, co-ordinating with the time elements. these cards play an important part in

all

All

mystic work with

the test book, but the finer divisions are naturally used the

One

most.

quality of the hour cards

to fix the culmina-

ting effect of several persons in a certain class. of the

minute card

and as solar,

The

quality

to fix the time element to small arc,

this card bears a perfectly ascertainable ratio to

and through that

be corrected thereby.

to secular time; the time can always

The second

momentary and one-half seconds on each

nite quality, but is

card of time

also a defi-

in effect, with a lap of side.

this,

mean

two that,

suppose a certain card rules at 44 seconds culmination. The same card rules co-ordinatily, but with less power, during 42, 43, 45 and 46 seconds. This is called the five second variation.

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290

The normal minute and second cards always bear a definite ratio to the movement of the earth, or what is the same thing, " time."

But the minute and second cards of persons

bear a perfect ratio to the card ruling on the day of birth, ivith

the effect of the normal card.

Day

cards

and birth cards

card of to-day

are the

same

thing, as the day

the birth card of any child born to-day.

THE MINUTE CAED OF TIME. Tlie next

engraving

illustrates those

important rulers, the

minute cards, displayed in a miscellaneous manner, and yet

exactly under the law.

spread them as

You

many times

can shuffle the emblems and

you

please,

and each one

occupy a place on the table according to exact law.

will

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. But

these in the illustration are

and do not appertain If

291

normal minute

cards,

any persons' magnetism.

you turn over the emblems shown in the

cut, so that

they face the Alter Cloth, they will show what planets

and houses they

rule under.

THE LAW OP POSITION Cards next

the cloth rule under the Earth or Jupiter.

Cards on the top of piles rule under Mercury or Saturn.

Cards next

the top are under

Venus or Uranus.

Cards third from the top rule under Mars or Neptune. Cards on the Sun rule under a planet and the Sun and are called "Solar

Emblems."

In the cut the ten of diamonds rules under Jupiter in

The King

Leo.

The

nine of hearts

The King he

of Spades

Under Earth and Sun. Venus in Pisces.

ten of hearts rules under is

The

under Saturn in Taurus.

of Spades

the Solar Zero

Time

Card, as

in the Solar book.

The

rule published in the former edition of this book,

was found

be useless for the present Century; so we

only publish the old version of

it.

It is

only used in

predictions.

Rule for finding the Minute Card of Time.

Take the hour Multiply

Add

of Solar tim,e.

two.

the Minutes of Solar time.

Multiply by the

Number

The product

the

Seven.

"Time Product."

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292

Take the day card

annex 12

of the day,

and add the number so produced

to its solar value,

to the " tmie product."

Divide the sum by 13, and divide the quotient so arising by

Add

the last remainder.

1 to

The remainder from the

first

division

the " spot value."

That from the second, the "suit number."

Remember

that suit

In case there cates a king,

numbers run H=l, C=2, D^3, S=4.

no remainder

at the first division,

and you do not add

1 to

indi-

the second remainder,

THE EULING EMBLEM OF THE HOUR. Each Solar Hour has Earth starts on to the

its

ruling emblem, from the time the

annual tour at midnight,

"normal"

December

31st,

These emblems are

end of the astronomical year.

by virtue of the polarity of the Earth, so

rulers,

that each year has the

Leap Years there

same

set clear

through, except upon

a slight variation on the given days.

The next engraving exhibits the months,

vi^ith

the "

month

day" immediately under each month. The table is normal years, On Leap year add one day after Feb. 29,

The hours

start at

midnight;

so, after

for

noon we must add

twelve hours to the clock time to get the hour of the day. Also,

you desire

work you must -make the

fine

cessary correction in time, if

your timepiece

ard time instead of solar.

In no place

is set

nec-

on stand-

the variation

intended to be over 30 minutes, so a rough estimate can be

made without going

into fine details in most places.

your longitude standard time

too fast,

west of your standard meridian, your

and

vice versa.

The

correction

about one minute for each sixteen miles variation.

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293

four minutes to each degree, as a

given point on the earth moves fifteen degrees per hour.

243

334

304

273

NORMAL MONTH DAYS.

The next engraving exhibits the normal rulers as if thrown carelessly upon the Zodiac, but each emblem occupies a place fixed by absolute

the card under

all

magnetic law.

No. 2

the others.

The sun counts

top one.

No.

in the

in each house,

next, and so

scheme of the Zodiac.

RULE FOR FINDING THE HOUR RULER.

Take the "month day," the day of the month, the hour the day

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; add them together.

in a year,

Add

the

Divide the sum by the weeks

Drop the

and mark the remainder X.

months

in a year to X.

Divide the sum by four. Divide the

sum by

five.

Add

quotient.

the days in a week.

the value

to the quotient.

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294

The

quotient shows the

number

of the house,

and the

remainder the place in the house of the ruling hour card. Note. — As a usual tiing, the card next above rules the next hour, and so on a fact which may be helpful to students.

—

THE HOUR

THE LAYOUTS.

CAilDS IN

In the fifty-two layouts, or spreads, given in this book, several of our Mystics have

NORMAL any given spreads,

made

"RULERS OF

card, taking

all

the discovery that after

THE HOURS.

through the fifty-two normal

comes an hour ruler just twenty-four times.

For

instance, the ace of spades rules twenty-four times to the

right of the eight of hearts, the jack of diamonds twenty-

four times at the right

—counting downward when at the end

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hour

— of the ace of

rulers, or

295

So, strange to say, these

spades.

"Earth Cards," never vary from twenty-four

in each case, and all rule in fours into each other. is

no other

a thing

emblems do

set of

This

in those layouts;

and it clearly exhibits the even passage of the Earth through the four quarters, or quadratures

—a

thing no other planet

does on co-ordinating time, corresponding to the Test Book.

For instance, the next, or second card

to the right

from any

given emblem, rules ten times; the next, eight, and the next, three.

There are just

card as there are planets

many

cards ruling after any

— no more and no

less

—aside from

the Earth Card before mentioned.

But

all

the planet cards form under each planet a contin-

uous chain of the ivhole

test hook,

instead of forming chains

of four, as the hour cards do.

EIGHT CAEDS WHICH EULE AFTER ACE OF SPADES. EARTH

MERCURY

MARS

VENUS

9 9 9 9

SATURN

JUPITER

URANUS

NEPTUNE

^ 9

9 9 ^

a a

6 6

Under each emblem

the number of times

rules under

that planet.

RULERS AFTBE THE EIGHT OF HEARTS. 1

9 Names

of planets and

numbers are

way through, remember.

9 9 6 6 6 just the

same

all

the

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296

RULERS AFTER QUEEN OF HEARTS.

d 6

6 6 It

9 9

would require fifty-two rows

lilje tlie

above to give

much

the rulers, and would require too

normal

rulers are very interesting, because they are the rulers,

which

from the

are different entirely

found from the solar quadrate.

all

space, yet these

solar rulers

Thus, a person born under

the ace of spades would, have as solar rulers under Mercury,

Venus, 7 of diamonds; Mars,

7 of hearts; ter,

5 of spades; Jupi-

jack of hearts; Saturn, 9 of clubs; Uranus, 9 of spades;

Neptune, 2 of hearts, while his normal rulers would be as

There seems, in most

above given under ace of spades, cases heretofore

examined by

us, a

in each case, solar.

and a nine

indications " than on

known what

same

there are two sevens

one of the nines in the

to balance

The co-ordination seems

kind of co-ordination

Thus

between the solars and normals.

be more on the " general

cards.

When

fully

shall

the significations are of these rulers

publish the full table. It has also been discovered that rulers at all distances

from a given card are

uniform

as the

primary

rulers.

Thus, there are an exact number of cards ruling seven places to the right or left of any given card. interesting, tables have

and the

facts discovered

This

also

by means of these

thrown a flood of light upon the movements of

the emblems, and has led to the discovery of the ential calculus in use in our temples.

new differ-

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The next

illustration is

designed to show the natural

Zodiac emblems thrown on the

and

297

circle,

each in

its

own

house,

another way of showing the wonderful manner

NATURAL CIRCLE OF ZODIAC CARDS. which the Test Book

fits

the Zodiac.

This arrangement

regardless of the planets, as the presence of a planet in any

house would change the suits in their relations to each other.

THE MYSTIC STORY OF ATLANTIS. There

a very pretty and interesting story in connection

with the Test Book, which, when properly told and illustrated, attracts interest

affords recreation.

to our

The

work and,

at the

writer has related

same time,

many

times, to

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298

the

amusement

"occult" about is

none the

You you do

Although there

of his friends.

except the knowledge of

it,

how

begin to sort out

all

it, it

the twelve picture cards, and, as

so, start to tell the story as follows:

a time

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; many, many ages

ago

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there

island in the Atlantic Ocean called 'Atlantis.' large island, with mountains

nothing

mysterious to the uninitiated.

less

"Once on

upon

it,

The

and

island

and

was cultivated by

was a very

plains, lakes

was an

and

rivers,

a busy population.

was divided into four quarters by large

rivers,

which arose in the highest portion, among the mountains and from their

common

four different directions.

sources, and flowed to the ocean in

The four

parts of the island were

kingdoms, and four kings thus governed the entire

"At the great

city,

which was builded

island.

at the junction, or

starting point of these rivers, the capitol of

all

the kingdoms

was located, where the four Kings and their Courtiers and their

Queens and wise men used

meet to pass laws and

hold council together.

One.chamber was the

High

set apart expressly for

the sittings of

which was held once each month.

Council,

this chamber the four kings used to

sit

on the highest row

of seats, thus: [Place the four kings in a

happen

come

in. ]

row on the

table, in

any order they may

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299

the next seat below the kings, the queens were

seated, ready to take part in the deliberations, if called upon. [While saying this, arrange the queens in your hand carelessly in such a way that the two center ones shall be of the same suit and in the same order as the two kings at the left end of the row. Then lay them down, as if carelessly, in such a manner that the right-hand queen is the same suit as the king above her, and the two "arranged ones" in the middle, thus:]

were

the lowest seat the

Prime Ministers

of the four courts

seated.

[At these words, you lay the four knaves in the same order as to suit as the kings are laid.]

"After the Council was over, the various members composing

would change their positions and converse upon

the subjects considered. [As you say these words, exchange the right-hand queen with the Move the two left-hand knaves, in same order, and exchange them with the right-hand ones. Then exchange any king, queen or knave with any other card of same suit, as much as you please, while keeping up a suitable story. We will suppose now that the cards are as left.

follows, as

shown on next page.

[The changes made having produced this (although there are thousands of ways which give an almost endless variety to it). Now gather

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300

the emblems exactly as directed for tarot quadration on page 264. Then have any number of persons cut them, at the same time saying:]

When

the Council finally adjourned they

out to the great banqueting

hall,

all

used to go

and would become mixed

together like this: [Pick up the cards and begin to deal them one at a time around the four quarters of the table, saying:]

"After the banquet they ters of the palace,

all retired to

the respective quar-

each king with his own queen and prime

minister." [If all this

over, they are

has been done correctly, sure enough, on turning them found to have divided in just that manner.]

THE CROSS OF OM. I have

said, heretofore,

that the " Cross " belongs to

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301

mysticism, and the universal Religion of the Stars, as

proven by the numerous examples we have in

Grand Temple

In the

etc.

a large chart, called the " Cross of

tarots, stars,

have a cross on

at Chicago, v^e

OM," which

I have re-

produced for the benefit 'of our readers at a distance. This Cross possesses certain mathematical qualities which

make

a co-ordination nearly as remarkable as the mystic

triangle or the sextuple star. First.

emblems

in the upright stem, equal to the

Each row has 3 emblems

year.

in the quarter, or

The

first

It has 12 rows

It is perfect in geometrical form.

complete. of

Book, 52 emblems

It contains exactly the Test

months

in a

typical of the 3 houses

in each season of the year.

3 rows at the bottom form an

emblem

tarot; spot

values 15, solar values 54, suit values 39, or 3 tarots in one.

The next 9 emblems above

constitute a perfect tarot;

spots 18, suits 78, solar values 96.

The next 9 tarot,

cards are all court cards, and they form a perfect

with spots 36, suits 39, solar values

say, the spirit values of this tarot

make

the lines except one diagonal.

being imperfect by exactly the 89.

The 9 emblems

make

spots 15, suits 78, solar values 93.

stem of the cross 4

tarots, each

Strange to

all

lines^l27, the eighth

amount of the

at the top

75.

a perfect tarot

"spirit double,"

a perfect tarot with

thus have in the

containing

making

12,

equal to the houses of the Zodiac.

The arms They

of the Cross are strangely occult in composition.

are remarkable examples of the exhibition of sevens,

these mystic numbers representing the planets.

The spot

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302

values of each

arm are 8 sevens

of each section

just 4 sevens.

value.

Each

TEST BOOK CKOSS OF value of just 78, the well

known

The spot value

section has a suit

OM.

tarot value seen in the

THE MYSTIC TESt BOOK. upright.

Each

half section of each

303

arm has a

solar value

of 106.

There are just 7 spades and 7 hearts in both arms of the These emblems can also be placed in such a position cross. that the spots not only add 4 sevens across, but also perpendicularly the same, thus

How

remarkable

it is,

that after four complete

3x3 tarots

have been taken froin the Test Book, the cards remaining should have so

number

many

mystic properties based upon the

deific

seven.

The card representing

the Christ comes in the center in

his old place on all the Crosses.

Above His head

"Magi Card" and with Him the

3 Marys.

the

The 12 Court

Cards emblematic of the 12 Signs of the Zodiac, have another face card with them in this cross,

making

emblematizes the whole 13 points on our Altar. 13 forming a beautiful " Court the cross.

Taken

as a whole,

Diamond"

13,

which

The whole

in the center of

what could be made beautiful,

both mathematically and geometrically, both mystically and emblematically than the Ctvss of our Order? Jesus of Nazareth did not bear this cross.

bore the

"cross of healing," a cross which thousands upon thousands are bearing to-day.

who has not attempted how heavy it is, no person

Just as no person

to bear the Cross of

can

tell

can realize the weight of the cross of mystic healing, except

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304

he has bourn

it.

Jesns bore that cross until

ended in a

cross of wood.

In our day, the ''cross of healing" ends in the cross of

many are crucified. OM, and has most fully realyears, how heavy it is. He could

law and public reprobation, upon which

The

writer bears the Cross of

ized during the past seven also take

the other, but two crosses are rather cumber-

some for one person

to bear.

ASTEO-PHRENOLOGICAL STUDY.

The publication

of the Chart in the

first

edition of this

book has awakened an

interest in the subject, so that several

readers have requested

more light thereon.

full exposi-

ASTRO-pm^MOLOGlCAL CHART, tion of the science of

head measuring and character reading

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. by

this process, is out of place in

emblems; but I

will give here

this

305

work on mystic

an engraving and the princi-

cipal characteristics of the divisions^ as they will appear in

the work to be issued later. It

may throw

to a further

little

understanding of

light

on the subject and lead

it.

LEADING CHAEACTERISTICS.

UNDER MERCURY. Amativeness.

UNDER JUPITER. Acquisitiveness.

Vitativeness.

Quick Temper.

Individuality.

Causality.

Beprodudiveness.

Locality.

UNDER VENUS. Language.

UNDER SATURN. Secretiveness,

Harmony.

Selfishness.

Perception.

Inhabitiveness.

Calculation.

Continuity.

UNDER EARTH. Bihativeness.

UNDER URANUS. Sublimity.

Ailimentiveness.

Ideality.

Executiveness.

Veneration.

Materiality.

Benevolence.

UNDER MARS. Combativeness.

UNDER NEPTUNE. Conscienciousness.

Approbativeness.

Conjugality.

Firmness.

Desfructiveness.

Parental Instinct.

Self Esteetn.

FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THE CHART. It

must be remembered that the

not distinct, by any means.

The

divisions of the head are

various dividing lines are

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

306

only intended to show where the general characteristics

approximately meet each other.

For instance, take "acquisitiveness/' which we put under

The

Jupiter in the table of characteristics.

organ of acquisitiveness all

on an

axis,

coinciding with

the characteristic named, does take

bined effect of

Venus

and

love.

power from the comdirect.

and to

Saturn, through caution, fear

man.

selfishness, causes acquisitiveness in

will readily see

how

all

But

the planets.

all

gives us desire for wealth for our loved ones,

attract friendship

and

its

and extending

Jupiter gives

the planets.

all

located really at the junction of

the planetary sections, just above the ear,

across

quality

The

reader

the others center likewise.

EULINGS OF THE ZODIAC.

Although

this

astrology, and

book does not profess

to be a

not, I have been requested

work upon

by a number of

our members to put the "Rulings of the Zodiac'' in

have been saving these rulings for

put them in

my work

some

it.

time, expecting to

on Heliocentric Astrology, with

full

explanations and directions for casting horoscopes; but the publication in this

work need not

interfere with the project,

I may as well give the subscribers of the Mystic Test Book the advantage of possessing them in advance of the publication of the other work. The reader will notice that

there are two departments

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Character and Occupation.

The small space immediately under the sign at the each ruling

left of

for the purpose o^ entering the owners' "per

centage" of standing in each house, should he ever become possessed of

it.

he does not, the space does no harm.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. No.

Meeodby and Venus Pbedominating.

Hoase

of the male forces or positive Scientific thought.

netic vibrations.

Quick tempier.

Wilfnlness.

strong.

ARIES

forgive.

Feverish

Excitability.

Strong electric organization. ing immediate future.

Love of motion.

magHeadQuick haste.

Worry regard-

Love of lively music. fine ma-

Admiration of

General instead of special love for

chinery.

307

opposite sex.

NO. 2.

to worship or religion.

â&#x20AC;˘a

Venus and Neptune Peedominating. House of the female or negative magnetic vibrations. Love of quiet and repose. Dislike of loud, boisterous persons. Tendency

TAURUS

Expectation. Antic-

Faith and trust.

ipation.

Intuition.

Ven-

eration. Expression by signs instead of -words.

Love of harmony. 0)

Control of features to

disguise true sentiments. Purity.

Strong friendship.

Personal adornment.

Cleanliness.

d NO.

Venus and Uranus Predominating. House of parental love and harmony Love of and care of offspring. Love of the young in general. Kindness to young animals. In-

.2 -o

No o

continuity.

GEMINI

Distrustfulness of adult persons.

Eestlessness under restraint. state of dissatisfaction.

tive brain

and hands.

Anxiety, or a

Bestlessness.

Ac-

Love of knowledge.

C NO.

Venus and Saturn Predominating. House of human nature. Love of home and Strong love of possession. IncliAdmiration of own

family.

nation to selfishness.

CANCER

belongings. to

own

Kindness

Dislike of dictation.

family.

Love of animal

pets.

ceptibility to magnetic influences.

table talk

Sus-

Love of

and a natural love of mild scandal.

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308

NO. 5.

Meecuey and Neptune Peedominating. House of the heart and emotions. Vital Clinging to life. Tenacity. Caution and care of self. Sly-

forces strong. Vitativeness. ness, caused

by lack of confidence in other

people.

Disposition for peace, unless driven

too far.

Can be

led,

but not driven.

from the heart instead of the head. entiousness.

Act

Consci-

Disposition to experiment in

business matters.

u NO.

Mebouey and TJeanus Peedominating. House of the material life forces. Friendship and sociability. Love of home comforts,

especially of the table.

Alimentiveness.

Hospitality.

of low and

persons.

Sympathy with those who

secuted,

Great

bright colors.

Dislike

Love of

rallying powers.

Judge of

colors.

vile

are per-

Selfishness

of materialistic part of organization.

Per-

sonal purity and honorable conduct.

NO.

Maes and Jupiteb Peedominating. House of

justice

and

trade.

Disposition to

Exact justice. System, method, arrangement. Bargaining and adjusting

fairness.

ÂŁ

prices .

LIBRA

NO.

sense of value.

Suavity and

Motives con-

mathematical

Trade instinct. Practical knowledge only. Firmness

combined with

sagacity.

trolled

a a

Good

politeness for sake of custom. policy.

Meeouby and Saturn Pbsdominating. House of generation. Amativeness or strong sexual instinct. Love of physical beauty in opposite sex. Connubial love. Love of own

SCORPIO

offspring, but not of other peoples' children.

new acquiantances of opExacting and impulsive. Inclined to jealousy. Strong vitality. Attraction towards

posite sex.

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309

Meeouhy and Mars Predominating. Prophecy House of energy and foresight. based upon calculation. Activity of mind. Zealous sanguinjty. Sudden impulees. Quick conclusions, sometimes incorrect.

M .2

make money

SAGITTARIUS

No. 10.

N 73

u o +-Âť

CAPRICORNUS

Desire to

strike while the

Demonstrative nature. Activity Quick to resent fancied or real injury. Love of stories of adventure and war. Purity of love. Constancy to one person. iron

is hot.

Jdpitee and Ueanus Peedominating. House of executive ability and undertakings. Command of men and things. Natural leadership. Conduct of great enterprises Money making ability. Positive nature. Quick to act in a business crisis. Determination, Impulse. Wish to always be at the head. Pride of station and wealth. Despise small things. Spiritual nature advanced and high, but kept down by material environments. Organizers.

No.

11.

JupiTEB and Neptune Peedominating. House of water shipping and transportation. Mercantile instinct. Public good. Love Wish of roving. Deal with many people. to travel.

O C

of body.

c 3

rapidly.

To see

the world.

Active tempera-

Love of water and rain storms. Bibativeness. Love of public demonstrations, brass band music, parade show and uniforms. Noise and excitement. City life. Strong intuitiveness but poor reasoners from cause to effect. Admiration of the vast and grand. ment.

AfiUARIUS

cd 0)

NO. 12.

PISCES

Venus and Jdpitee Peedominating. House of Science and philosophy. Eesearch. Acquisition of knowledge. Love of astronomy, geology and kindred sciences. Love of proven abstract and exact science instead of theories.

Mathematical exactness.

Care in

the expenditure of money, to obtain fall therefor. Honor and uprightness. Lack of self-confidence. Fidelity to trusts. Thrift and forethought. Logical and argu-

value

mentative nature.

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310

NO.

ARIES

Mebotjbt and Venus Peedominating. Trades and professions requiring qaickness of the hand and mind combined with judg-

ment and intuition. Telegraphy. Keporting. Stenographic Work. Rapid Drawing, SketchString Band Playing. ing or Painting. Teaching of Dancing. Acting. Type-setting. Writing of light literature, if any. A Male House, so the trades are mostly those followed by males as a rule.

C NO. 2. cd

Venus and Jupiteb Pbedominating. Trades and Professions requiring light touch, quick eyes, combined with skill and power to execute. Portrait and Landscape Painting.

Drawing and Sketching where time is unlimi-

ted.

TAURUS

NO.

H 0)

GEMINI

No.

â&#x20AC;˘ M

CANCER

Engraving

light

work.

Artistic

Millinery, Dressmaking and Draping.

Light Gardening. Artificial Flower Making. Photographing and Photo Engraving. Elocution under some circumstances. A Female House, with trades followed as a rule by females.

Venus and Ubanus Predominating. Employments requiring Love of Nature and the Young, combined with Calmness and Judgment. School Teaching. Government of Children. Care of Young Children and Young Animals generally. Light Gardening. Writing of light Juvenile Literature.

Poeti-

and Blank Verse Writing. Embroidering in Colors. Fancy Work of various kinds. Male and Female House. Avorations followed by both sexes. cal

Venus and Mabs Pbedominating. Employments requiring Patient Labor and Domestic Love, combined with Strength to Housekee ing and General Managebear. ment of the family and home. Domestic Labor both outside the house and in. Sewing. Cooking. Baking. Laundry, Hotel or Restaurant Management. Boarding or Booming. Female House. Employment mostly followed by females.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. No. 5.

311

Venus and Mekcubt Pbedominating. Employments reqniring Inspiration and Emotion, with high Magnetic Force and Power Emotional Novel Writing. Preaching or Lecturing. Inspirational Lecof Expression.

Some

turing.

LEO

females ruling high in this,

although a male house.

Mind Healing.

Magnetic Healing.

Some kinds

Law Practice

before Juries.

Male House with employments mostly of a male character.

No,

a 3 u u

VIRGO

ecale.

Dyeing, or any avocation requiring Colors. Methodical Business

Judgment in

JupiTEB AND Neptune Pbedominating. Employments requiring Calm, Cold Judgment without emotion and little care for others. Love of Money. Dealing in ProRastaurant duce, Meats and Provisions. Keeping. Painting and Printing on a large

many

kinds.

Male and Female House combined.

NO.

JUPITEB AND MABS PeEDOIHINATINO. Business requiring Financial AbUity com-

bined with Judgment and Will Powe"". PracMedicine as a Specialist. Manufac-

tice of

turing

LIBRA

many

lines of goods, or Wholesale

Dealing. Retail Merchandizing. Buying and

Trading in Tiands. Horses

Selling generally.

Stocks.

Brokerage

and Commission

Business generally.

Male and Female House combined.

NO.

Mabs and Ukanus Pbkdominatinq. Occupations requiring Strength and Power to bear hardship, with slight aspirations for

M SCORPIO

knowledge or spiritual growth. Heavy FarmStock Raising. Common Labor of many kinds. Jobbing and Building Trades. Mechanical Labor. Severe Domestic Lahor. Iron Working. Coal Mining. Wood Working.

ing etc.

Male House.

Nearly neutral, however.

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312

NO.

Jupiter and Ubanus Peepominating.

Business requiring strong, unflinching Judg-

ment, great Executive Ability and Management with stern Selfishness and Kesolution

-K

to Succeed.

Insurance.

-K

Loaning.

Kenting. Publish-

Heavy, Practical Literature.

Editing.

ing.

SAGITTARIUS

Banking.

Real Estate Dealing.

Legal

Practice.

Surgery.

Dentistry

and

general Medical Practice.

Male House, with male avocations predominating.

JupiTEE AND Neptune Peedominating.

No. 10.

Undertakings requiring Ability to Organize and Control large Institutions, Governing Ability and Lavish Expenditure of Money to make money. Large Manufacturing and

3 o o

Jobbing of Merchandise.

c CAPRICORNDS

Superintending of

Railroads, large Lines of Transportation or Express Companies. Great Organizers of Stock Companies, etc. Females often rank high in this house but cannot exercise their abilities therein.

•a

Male and Female House combined.

u No.

Maes and Neptune Peedominating.

11.

Occupations requiring hardihood and strength with a Love of Out-Door Life and Water, or Dampness. Shipping or Sailing. Express-

.2 •S

ing. Milling. Mining. Engineering. Survey-

ing.

AQUARIUS

Fishing and

ments.

When

many kindred employ-

females are high in this house

they dislike indoor employments and love to travel.

«5

Male House with male employments.

Meecuby and Ueanus Pehdominating*

No. 12.

Occupations or Professions requiring quickness of Intelligence and Power to Grasp Situations, combined with Dignity and Power

Make Most of one's Personality. Office Holding or Political Power. Some Branches of Law. Managers of Offices. Many Trades and Avocations come under this. Some to

PISCES

females are strong in this without opportunity to exercise their ability

Male and Female House combined.

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313

cautioned against the prevailing notion,

which people are prone are cast-iron in their

upon the magnetism

to indulge, that these definitions

rigidity.

Nothing whatever, based

any one body in the solar system,

can be fixed absolutely. All the Life and Character Rulings and the Rulinsrs of

TEST BOOK "CKOSS OF LOVE."

SPRING.

Trades and Occupations are dependent upon the polarity of the Earth in

its

relation to the Sun.

relation enough, as far as the

Sun

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;are

concerned.

That

two bodies

a definite

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Earth and

But the other great magnets

system, seven in number, are

all

in the

the time forming different

combinations relative to each other and their aspect to the

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

314

which fact must alwaj^s be taken into consideration.

earth,

For instance, supposing a lady was born in Scorpio. Primarily, that polarity would indicate that she fitted for seve; 3

domestic labor.

strong aspect at her birth,

may

But the

would

efPect of Saturn, in

give her a physical consti-

tution unfitted for the strain of such labor.

She would

have the "disposition to make things move" in her domestic affairs,

without the necessary health to back

TEST BOOK â&#x20AC;˘â&#x20AC;˘CROSS OF KNOWLEDGE."

The

writer

was born

it.

SUMMER.

Virgo, but the earth had just

gone out of Leo, and the planets were in such a peculiar aspect to those

two houses that the

effect

was

rulings partake of the nature of Leo fully

split,

and his

more than of

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. Virgo.

Many

315

persons do not seem to understand the dif-

The

ference between being born in a sign or under a sign. sign, or " house," you are born in is

at birth.

the sun

is.

The sign you

the one where the earth

are born under

the one where

One's rulings often partake largely of those of

the sign where the sun

is,

which

is,

of course, the opposition

sign from the Earth at birth.

w:^

TEST BOOK "CROSS OF WEALTH.

AUTUMN.

The reason why the Mystic Emblems are used by much is because they are ths exponents of the effects kinds, including the earth, sun

netic forces.

and planets and

Just as a logarithm

power, so the emblem

us so of all

their

mag-

the exponent of a given

effect.

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

316

matter what number ever so small,

and the

produced,

let

be ever so large or

represents the solar value of one

spirit of

for instance

emblem

Take the number 319,372

some emblem.

This number completely represents the Spirit

of the Mystic Test Book, its spirit root being 44.

TEST BOOK "cross OF LABOE

But

Magi

AND

DEATH.'

WINTER.

emblem

of the book, the

Card, Ace of spades, in three ways.

It is the solar

represents the exponent

value, the spirit value and the astral value of that

The

astral root of the

dividing by 7 instead of sents

all

Magi Card 9.

55.

which

emblem. found by

The same number seldom

repre-

the three phases of one emblem, yet each card has

many such numbers.

Pyramid Tarotology Test Book Supplement of 1919 As the publication sion of the

of all the

knowledge

Grand Temple, regarding

cost tens of

in the posses-

this subject,

would

thousands of dollars, I have concluded to

give a brief outline of the

emblem branch only

;

together

with illustration of the altar cloth used in the work and a few sample tarots of the thousands in our records.

The

Pentads, or

Pyramid

tarots, are the

magic; from the fact that they

most used in

the zodiac in so

fit

many Each

Chart one shows this on the altar cloth.

Avays.

house having two squares; the positive being next

Except those which are equidis-

sun, the negative outside.

tant from the sun, in which

ascension

to the

case, the first

square in right

positive.

Previous to the present Jurisdiction, 1844 on, mathematicians

them do

knew nothing about

all tarots

to this day.

them

''soul of

into Generic Classes, fami-

the ancients, a beautiful, nicely

balanced "soul tarot," looked

of Tarots.

But the grand discovery of the

and branches.

"Straw stack."

Geometry

looked alike; as the mathematical tarots

the tarots" differentiated lies

the

Yet one

much

the same as a veritable

highly evolved, while the other

low in evolution.

They correspond have family

humanity

ties, sisters,

many

ways.

They

mothers, cousins, aunts and

spring; even to the fifth generation. 317

The

traits

off-

of the

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different kinds of tarots are entirely different.

They

also

require different treatment, and possess different dispositions

;

just as

human

beings do.

differentiate in the sam,e

molecules do.

Some

manner

Not only

that,

but they

that chemical atoms

and

families of tarots are very prolific,

such as the Normal and Primo.

Others are so choice and

highly evolved, that only a dozen

exists in

the entire

universe.

The Primo family has 795,680 members only ;

ing near

reckon-

relatives.

The Normal family has over 800,000 members; while the Marvel group is known to have sixty sub classes, with 850,000 members and miore being discovered every year. These are

numbers

all

1 to 25

mathematical

and no two

tarots,

made from the

alike.

All together there are only about three million figure

But those made from the Mystic emblems, num-

tarots.

ber into billions, and then some.

Their number are like

the sands of the sea shore.

When

an inspired tarot

pulled out of the Infinite, by

a well balanced battery of mystic souls, there

no limit

absolutely

the possibilities.

The samples below

the Cloth, on the Chart, show the

w^ork of two such classes of twelve

members

each.

They

were as far apart as the poles in their emblem characteristics,

yet

They

ally.

The tion,

came within an Ace

of being alike, mathematic-

are called the "Altars of

full use of this

Cloth and

its

OM." emblematic

significa-

can only be understood and appreciated by members

of the

Grand Temple, above

third degree in rank.

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gives

321

of an inspired

illustration

The

lay-out; with the cards turned face up.

mathematical value of the cards are entirely different

from the

solar values given elsewhere in this book.

TAROTOLOGICAL VALUES. Aces

to Fives

and

Tens

also

= their spot value.

Sixes, equal their quarter value.

Seven of Hearts and

all

the Eights

five

times their

Quarter Value.

The

other Sevens and Nines

Jacks equal

all

Queens equal

five.

equal Zero. fifteen.

Kings equal

twenty. Solar values can be used, in in the

same mianner

shown

making Pyramid Tarots, IX and X.

in Chapters

The Astrological reading of a tarot more accurate and minute than the

lay-out,

even

Solar Quadrate

Method; but the Method cannot be given in

The same emblem

this work.

significations are used in reading tarots

as those given in the

body

of this

work; with the added

advantage of knowing what house and polarity a card ruling

in.

HOW THE

SOUL OF A TAROT

There are twelve pairs of

m,ates in a

FOUND. Pentagonal Tarot,

each pair consisting of extreme numbers which add 26.

The mates

are joined

a straight line in the geometric

diagTam. If two pair of mates is

LAP

doubled by convolutions;

pair

entirely

doubled.

If the

on each

other, the entire line

as seen in diagTams.

the line of another, only the

Sun

ON, the

line is doubled.

one

The 13

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK.

322

represents the

Sun and has no mate. Where colors are

sun, on the diagram.

It is

marked

as a

used, in recording

the diagram, the characteristics of the tarot can be differentiated to use

by the

But in plain black, we

colors.

such devices as thickening of lines

show up the

are obliged in order to

tarot satisfactorily.

In recording

tarots,

they should

Second

their geometrical forms.

The index

etc.,

any

line of

tarot, is

be sorted as to

first

index

as to their

which contains the Ego or

or perpendicular,

unit, but

But, of the two such lines, you must take

ISrOT the 13.

For

the one having the smallest numbers next the one. instance, take these two lines.

The index

line.

the one, either horizontal

line

recorded as:

what rotation they come will find the tarot for

in the tarot.

in,

you

1 7 14 21 22, no matter

in your

Your index

collection

and you

will thus avoid duplication.

Some

students prefer to sort only

collections are as well recorded this

the exact center of a tarot if

the

REP.

Sun

by diagTam.

way.

If the

Small

Sun

called a "Solar Tarot."

any other square, the

tarot

called a

This name comes from the word Republic, on

the theory that the "king" has been set out from his throne.

"Straw-stack"

a tarot with a soul which

in all sorts of inorganic ways.

mixed

There are many thousands

of this kind in existance.

THE TRANSFORMING OF PYRAMID This

an important and fascinating

TAROTS. science.

I shall

THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. attempt

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in use.

323

but a few of the hundreds of transformers this

illustrate

art,

we take the following

diagram

Q V

and E, or

U CROSS.

HOP.

Exchange Exchange

lines

and U, or

B and F and P.

Either one of the Crosses plus either one of the Hops, constitutes the General Transformer,

known

as the Star.

A-f-Y==E4-U, any one of them can be used

JUMP.

Exchange

lines

B and

E, or

singly.

and U.

Either can be used on some tarots and both togethei

all

tarots.

STEP. Exchange 4th, P and U.

lines, 1st,

AB. 2nd, DE.

3rd,

AF.

All of these at one time, constitute the General Trans-

former the "Twist." 1 Q,

and 2

Tarot

;

and 4

alone, can be used on

any

while some tarots can stand any one of the four

steps alone.

alone, or 2

This kind are called

"Q" Tarot

Tarots.

one where the quadrilaterals,

B FT X An

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fit

odd

trans-

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IN THIS SERIES

writer, in

in-

Minneapolis in 1909;

with the help of four Inner Temple members.

beauty was revealed

When

its

us by turning over the emblems,

we were struck almost dumb by

seeing

personal birth

elements so emblematically arranged by the Laws of Nature.

birth

month doubled; my by my birth

stood at each corner faced

birth day, 22, year, 44,

The

strangest thing was the 4 threes, surrounding the sun

and one

of them,

Diamonds,

top stood three Queens, side

my own by

side,

stood at the bottom to balance themj.

birth card.

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we thought, with such a

sight,

first

doubles and birth elements,

emblemology.

tarot to

must have

lay-out

sacrificed the

But on reading the

values,

were astonished to find an entirely new mathematical style of

Alpha; an Alpha

quality of the Betta as a

Primo,

Tarot.

had

the strange

Right Step

taroit

and we have the marvelous Corona, No. 1 on

This

it is

so intricate.

CROSS, and we

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HOP

STAR

During original

get another Buffalo, with all the qual-

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Regulus, No. Betta.

plate.

a regular formed tarot but hard to diagram in

black, as

ities of

this

and we

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these changes the birth elements in the

emblem

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through wonderful transforma-

tions, inter.esting to view.

CONSIDERATION OF CHAET NO. FOUR. This chart gives only four of the leading Capries, naturally they are of several families.

all

Tarots and each

the Leader

Try them with the various

formers given in this book.

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month

trans-

illustrates the

in the year.

and

set

of blocks and try to discover mathematical tarois to

fit

excellent practice, for students, to procure a board

some, or

all,

of these "souls."

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be handled

easily.

Blocks, 25 in number,

Th^y should be /^" How to make the best

stores.

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Grand Temple.

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"Chris"

These are

series.

all

Tarots and therefore very

and well worth the study.

prolific

CHART Dorma

NO.

gives a few of the

Some

or "Bedstead" Series.

much admired

of these bedsteads

have the strange property of transforming into rooms filled

with single beds or

a few of these

;

had space to give them in our Temple

I wish I

cots.

but members can

see

Archives.

Perhaps this

work

would be

this

good a place

as any, to say that

written for and. primarily intended for

bers of the Order, only.

from buying

CHART

and

NO.

But we do not debar

getting-

what they can out of

mem-

outsiders it.

8; gives only a few of the four choice

Leaders of the great Electric Series.

These are the hard-

of them made have been made by They are best by using Algebra bloicks, and they have to be built up from "cores," the same as building a dynamo. The Sub famiThey are lies are named Electro, Telepher, Wireless, etc. est tarots in

nature

to discover

and only a few

inspiration.

named after noted electricians. NO. 9; this illustrates four choice emblematic

individually

CHART tarots,

dug "from the "depths

significance.

The The

two different

classes.

Mystics.

triangles

of the Infinite,"

and

"Braider," No.

crosses

classes

are of special

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been found by

This kind of

tarots are usually

recorded in "diamond" form, as the soul

best seen in

that position.

CHART Altar of but on

NO. 10. Number One is another form of the OM. This one does not have the Sun above it

its side.

Mystics will understand the signification

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THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK. The

of this.

strange "double cross" was found by a lady

from Milwaukee a few years ago. crosses in her life

and one

She admitted

set."

337

She was a

emblems on the Cloth

She confirmed

life.

been "up-

lately

this to be strictly true.

perfect stranger to me, but the

revealed her whole

She had two great

them had

interpreta-

tion in full.

CHART

NO.

When

products of Evolution.

made

tarot, it

number 12 and 13 are memThey are strange

Tarots

11.

famous ''Q;ueen" family.

bers of the

four lines of mates are

run across a tarot diagonally on one^half the

makes

a hard proposition for Nature to

to a limited extent.

come up

out

fill

But she was able

the balance, into a perfect tarot.

Queen number one could not quite which incarnated in it. It

to the beautiful soul

miade a good perfect physical tarot, seen below, but this does not balance exactly with the soul above

body breeds backs with a

sort of

number two has an unbalanced and

The

avatism to two of

and exhibits a peculiar feature of each.

progenitors,

body.

it.

Soul, to

conform

its

But to its

Fourteen, Fifteen and Sixteen speak for themselves

are well worth studying.

CHART

NO.

Many

12.

of our higher

members have

asked for diagrams and directions for finding their entire circle

of Birth cards.

All persons, except a few born

under the Joker or under cards for

all

the months.

the basis for finding

all

Flours,

have auxiliary birth

The ordinary

birth emblem'

of them.

BIRTH EMBLEM ZODIACS.

find your birth cards for all the houses of the Zodiac

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339

find your ruling birth card in one of the circles

that

down in

Then is

and mark

the house the Earth was in at your birth.

take the card next in advance of your card and

the birth card for the next house and so on.

birth card

If the

a 4 spot, the person has only one birth

They come in the same rotation as shown in the four diagrams. The first diagram is my own birth card circle. All these birth emblems bear emiblem for each quarter.

peculiar relations to each other

and

to the regular birth

Below these diagrams we give a "conglomerate" of

cardo

the Test Book, the emblems being thrown

on in a pro-

miscuous manner. This particular one represented the

war and was spread in 1914.

meaning persons,

War and

to those

some

This

them

13.

Many

have noticed that this

Elements, Fire, Water, Earth

illustrated in the plate.

NO.

outsiders,

FOUR

the last great war?

CHART

lay-outs are full of

who understand reading them.

covered the Air.

Such

late

sincerely

The

first

hope

Will this be

so.

Zodiac

ilustrates

the

"Twelve Lights of Science" by emblems of Art and Craft.

The second Zodiac of the If

and Wisdom; Trade and Labor

gives the color of the twelve houses

illustrates at the side.

Light;

Four Quarters.

we had

a full circle of twelve temples, the various

houses would be draped at the doors and windows in those colors,

upon the

and the charts

walls.

Such a

of each degree

city as

would be hung

Chicago should have a

million dollar temple furnished in accordance with this plan.

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Order in the fullest sense of the its importance and its foundation principles are strictly secret and are obliged to be so from the very nature of things. But the Religion of the Stars, which is the religion of the Order, is not secret. Its preachings and its practice is open to all who can appreciate it. The secret machinery of the Order is simply the vehicle by which the religion is taught word.

Its

a true Secret

very cause of existence,

and exploited in its various degrees according to the universal law of evolution. Those who would know more regarding this ancient Order, can obtain information in the form of bulletins, circulars, papers, etc., at any time in the future, by sending address

and stamps to O. H.

The Grrand Temple

RICHMOND,

located at this date,