Annie Besant : an autobiography ... / [Annie Wood Besant].

  • Annie Besant
Date:
1893
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Credit: Annie Besant : an autobiography ... / [Annie Wood Besant]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “out of the everywhere into the here.” N October i, 1847, ^ am credibly informed, my baby eyes opened to the light (?) of a London afternoon at 5.39. A friendly astrologer has drawn for me the following chart, showing the position of the planets at this, to me fateful, moment ; but I know nothing of astrology, so feel no wiser as I gaze upon my horoscope. Keeping in view the way in which sun, moon, and planets influence the physical condition of the earth, there is nothing incongruous with the orderly course of nature in the view that they also influence the physical bodies of men, these being part of the physical earth, and largely moulded by its conditions. Any one who knows the characteristics ascribed to those who are born under the several signs of the Zodiac, may very easily pick out the different types among his own acquaintances, and he may then get them to go to some astrologer and find out under what signs they were severally born. He will very quickly discover that two men of completely opposed types
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