App. 2. God as Principle, and reflects God. Every single thing, therefore, must have its exact and perfect position and bearing in relationship to all the other spiritual realities, hence the typical significance of each detail. The sun and its planets, arranged in the scale of their space relationship to each other, exactly reproduce the musical spacing of a fundamental note and its harmonies. Most probably it will be found before long that the human body, with its heart, represents the sun, and that the arrangement of the electrons exactly repeats the arrangements of the planets. Theoretically it should be so, as the spacing is based upon relationships corresponding to the radius of whole small 10 numbers. It will be found that everything in the material world is governed by this relationship of the whole small numbers, which power a modern writer incorrectly calls "the Voice of God."

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Eidophone. This instrument is an illustration of this mathematical relationship in the material world. When sung into, the vibrations act upon paste spread uniformly over tightly stretched parchment, so that it forms with the paste, figures which vary according to the note or notes sung into it. In this way, trees, flowers, ferns, etc., can be produced identical in outline with those found in nature, 20 showing the absolute correspondence that there is between sound and form, both being merely vibrations. A discordant note disintegrates the figure being formed. If sand is used instead of paste the figures are geometrical. There is the same wonderful similarity with ice crystals, where you find stars like beautiful flowers and fern leaves, in exact reproduction of vegetable life.

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According to Dr. W. Woods Smyth, Professor Huxley has said that as the cloud of our breath condenses on a pane of glass on a frosty morning into fern-like leaves, so after a like manner have the whole flora and fauna of the globe come forth from the great nebula cloud. Take any so-called perfect thing in the material world. On investigation you will find that nearly every portion of it has its exact mathematical relationship to the other portions and the more perfect it is the more exact you find this mathematical ratio. This is because it indicates a better sense of the real spiritual idea, which has its exact 33 mathematical ratio, than a thing that is repulsive either because of its apparent physical or apparent mental characteristics.

Astrology.*- "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them" (Jer. 10, ver. 2).

One of the most important symbolisms in the material world is found in the sidereal system. We need not, like the heathen, be dismayed when we find that there are signs of impending disasters in the future, as by true prayer we can destroy all such evil thoughts. In the sidereal system is symbolised, not only the spiritual reality of the sun, planets, and stars, but the history of the world and the history of every human being. At first sight it seems very difficult Astrology is well in its place, but this place is secondary" (Misc. Writ., p. 334, line 5. Mary Baker Eddy).

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to see how this can be so. On investigation it will be found to be very simple. It merely is because the whole of the material world, past, present, and future, appears, as far as anything in the material world can be said to be apparent, at the present moment in the 3 form of thoughts, material and therefore false thoughts.

Abraham undoubtedly studied the stars. Goethe and Bacon gave details of their horoscopes to account for certain characteristics, whilst nearly every physician and man of science in medieval Europe was an astrologer. It was looked upon as a difficult but real science. 1 Chaucer, Dryden, Scott, Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Richard Burton, Kepler, and Napier the mathematician, all gave a considerable amount of attention to the subject, and Richelieu and Napoleon firmly believed in it. It is not advisable, however, to give time to it in the present day, as information worth having can be much better obtained 15 in other ways. All needful knowledge is close at hand in a readily available form, and directly we know how to pray scientifically we can gain it.

Astrological results are due, not to any effect that the constellations have, but to the fact that every four minutes a different 20 main vibration acts upon the earth. Each planet also appears to come into so-called action upon any particular portion of the earth every four minutes, and has its vibratory number, which can be reduced to its digit or fundamental value. The order in which they come into seeming action and the fundamental values, 25 as shown by John Heydon, Ragon, Westcott, Ahmad, and many others, are as follows. Ahmad, in his latest book, includes Sunday in the positive numbers.

Beginning at the exact minute of sunrise at any given place, the next 5 hour is influenced by the vibration which is theoretically held to govern the day of the week.

For instance, on Saturday, Saturn, or the vibration 8, governs the first four minutes, and to a lesser degree the first hour at sixty minutes after sunrise. Jupiter, 3, governs the second four minutes and the second 40 hour; Mars, or 9, the third period. Many calculations are wrong because the ancient Arabian astronomers called the planet nearest the Sun, Venus, and the second Mercury; whereas nowadays these names have been interchanged, and the one nearest ourselves is called Venus. From this series of vibrations can be mathematically calculated, not 45 only a man's material future, but the thought that comes to him at any given moment, as every thought, like every sound, has its * Many well-known men, such as the noted political leader, Parnell, have had a rooted belief in the ill luck of certain numbers and days.

App. 2. vibratory value.* Heydon numbers the Zodiacal constellations thus: Aries 7, Taurus 6, Gemini 12, Cancer 5, Leo 1, Virgo 10, Libra 8, Scorpio 9, Sagittarius 4, Capricorn 5, Aquarius 2, Pisces 11.

It is a great waste of time to try and find out either the past, the present, or the future in this way, as this only prolongs illusions which have to be destroyed before dominion can be gained by man and perfect happiness thus eventually reached. We have enough to do to learn how to work in the proper way. When a man learns how to think rightly he can destroy any so-called bad influence when its preordained time comes, and thoroughly protect himself and all those around him.

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Numerical Value of Names.-The same sound in every language has the same vibratory number. If you add up the numbers of the different sounds in your name and obtain its fundamental value, you will find that it is the same number as the fundamental value of the vibration that theoretically must act at the moment of your birth; 15 and as astrologers will say, of the number of the planet under which you were born. Every letter, or rather sound, has its recognised value in numbers.

Until this remote, but none the less positive action is seen and recognised as illusory, this planetary action does apparently 20 take place, and people and things continue like a picture gallery, showing forth the apparent results of such illusory action Truly an ignominious position for beings who have in reality absolute dominion over the whole earth.

It has been said that "an undevout astronomer is mad." The laws 25 of mathematics are just as true in heaven as they are in this so-called material world. We have, therefore, to gain a better sense, a spiritual sense, of these laws, and their relation to heavenly realities. "Knowledge is proud that he has learnt so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more

(Cowper).

"He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, he is a fool; shun him.

"He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, he is simple; teach him.

"He who knows, and knows not that he knows, he is asleep; wake him.

"He who knows, and knows that he knows, he is wise; follow him." (Ancient Hindoo Saying.)

* "The Chaldean Wisemen read in the stars the fate of empires and the fortunes ("Science and Health," p. 121, line 7. Mary Baker Eddy).

of men

APPENDIX III.

WITCHCRAFT.

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Isabella O. Ford writes: "The number of witch executions in France was enormous; in Francis I.'s reign alone, it is reckoned at 100,000. In 5 Louis XIII.'s '10,000 witches to one wizard' were burned, one writer asserts. Judge Remy, of Nancy, says he burned 800 and in 1595 several unhappy women committed suicide sooner than fall into his clutches. Suicide amongst women grew common. In one month only, 500 were executed in Geneva. In Toulouse, on a special occasion, 400 were burnt 10 in one day!

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"Of Braunschweig, during the time of Duke Heinrich Julius, Tittmann says: Religious fanaticism was revived by the introduction of 48 26 Protestant doctrine, and kept well alive by the representatives of the 219 26 Church. This the district has to thank, not only for the increased 15 severity of the laws against the Jews, but for the inconceivable number of witch-trials conducted without any regard to person. The devil appeared to be peculiarly active where the Gospel was preached in its greatest purity, and the contest against him more necessary than ever. . . . Duke Heinrich Julius looked at the matter simply as a jurist 20 and confined himself to what torture brought forth. . . . During his rule ten or twelve witches were burnt in one day, so that on the place of execution before the Lechenholz, near Wolfenbüttel, the stakes stood like a small forest.'

"These words, 'a small forest,' make one vividly realise the dreadful 25 scene. People then knew what hell was; they had not to die to get into hell. See Note N on page 592.

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"Sprenger's Witch Hammer' was a kind of pocket-guide of how to 103 find and punish witches, and was most useful and necessary reading, therefore, for witch-inquisitors. It bore the sanction of the Pope, and was followed until the eighteenth century. 'It based its theories upon 30 the Bible, and devoted thirty-three pages to the proof that women were especially addicted to sorcery.' Its author, Sprenger, was, as we have noticed, a great believer in the powers possessed by women; even young girls of fifteen he condemned. . . . Since this witch-hunting was looked upon as a religious duty, all sects joined in it. A man was not safe, to whatever religious body he belonged. All pulpits equally exhorted their congregations to be active in this great campaign,

App. III. Luther was a most determined and bitter enemy of these unfortunate people. He says: 'No one should show mercy to such people; I would myself burn them.'

"The Puritans carried the persecution to New England, where it took a firm hold, and most horrible cruelties were committed. In Pennsylvania and New York States, too, witchcraft was treated as a capital offence. Even William Penn, presiding at the trial of two Swedish women, instructed the Grand Jury to find against them.""

"The Parliament of Toulouse condemned to be burnt together 400 human beings. 'Let one judge of the horror, of the black smoke, of so 10 much flesh, of fat, which under piercing cries and howlings, made a horrible bubble. Execrable and nauseous sight, which has not been seen since the boiling and the roasting of the Albigenses.'"+ Six hundred witches perished in the bishopric of Bamberg alone, within three months; and from the bull of Pope Innocent VIII. it is estimated 15 that 300,000 witches were immolated."

The "witch-finder," General Hopkins, "pricked, waked, and swam," hundreds of unhappy women in the eastern counties of England; Major Oeir was strangled and burnt at Edinburgh, in 1670, for sorcery; an old man was burnt for witchcraft at Wurzburg in 1749, and a woman in 20 Spain in 1781, whilst five witches were burnt at St. Jacob, in Mexico, as late as 1877. In 1911 a woman was hunted as a witch in Pennsylvania. As to the methods, "the nursery tales of the torments of hell have here been realised." Even for protesting against this Witch Crusade many were burnt, among others the Abbot of St. Martin, the Deans of 25 Pfalzel and Waldbruch, the Vicars of Búdelich and Beschied, and the Chaplain of Trittenheim. Whence came this extraordinary belief in witchcraft, and how was it that men of such diverse views as Charles V., Luther, Erasmus, Carpzov, Baxter, and Sir Thomas Browne, were of opinion that witchcraft existed, and should be stamped out, and looked 30 on approvingly at the methods employed.

After the before-mentioned bull of Innocent VIII. was published, a maxim of the priests was that "the greatest heresy is not to believe in witches."

All this arose from a dread fear of the power of the devil, 35 occasioned by the extraordinary results obtained by these people. Michelet says it arose from "despair, a dread uncertainty of what was going to happen in the world. An enormous void was made in the world. Who would fill it? The Christians say the demon: Ubique

deamon.""

"But, to adequately answer the question, volumes would be required, and here it will be sufficient to recognise that a witch mania did once exist, in fact, and to ascertain some particulars as to the classification of

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