Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-04-12
WATERFOWL, WIS, FRIDAY, APRIL ,l2 1861.
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ASTROLOGY.


matter before it is examined, and yet few
things are more common. While we have
never believed in Astrology, the ocean
tides, and other facts, such as the rays Of
the moon turning fish putrid and impair
ing the sight of the exposed sleeper, have
long since convinced us that the planets
do exert great influence upon the earth,
DR.. Lardner to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, The writer below, ike an honest
sailor, boldly launches his bark, calling
upon the gazers to watch and see if be
does not float. We are confident he will
go under, and stand convicted as false
Prophet, especially relating to the predic-
tions he has made concerning the Seces-
sionists Ed. REPUBLICAN.
Many people believe that planets exer-
else an influence over the lives and fortune
of people, and the destinies of cities and
nations. In past ages the science of As
trology occupied as high a position among
the inhabitants of the world, as any sci
ence or system of religion now does; the
master minds of the world studied it and
practieed according to its rules.
In later years it grew into disrepute,
but still lives and has its votaries, and its
teachers in Europe and America. By
Mundane Astrology is to be understood
that part of the science treating upon the
destinies of cities and nations.
MUNDANE AsTRoLoGY.
Astrology is science based upon the
fabric of Creation, which has employed the
mind of Ptolemy, who is considered the
greatest Astrologist who ever lived, Of
Thales, a Plato, Virgil, Kepler and
Newton, besides hundreds of others whose
names are immortalized by their learning
in the arts and sciences,
Predictions as to occurre nces likely to
take place. are decreed according to GER
tain chain of causes which for ages. have
been found uniformly to produce CORES
ponding train of effects, the whole system
being founded on the result Of actual OBJ
servation. Those who reject the claims Of
Astrology have never applied their minds
to the study of it, and exhibit unfairness
in their condemnation Of what they know
nothing about.
More generally understood, its tendency
would be to purify those who came under
its teachings, and to enable them to escape
many perils which ignorance of the infu-
ences of the various planets, compels maa
to undergo. Crime would be diminished,
for who would rob his fellow man with a
certainty before him of being found out ?
Who would act the hypocrite in religion
or morals when he had the knowledge in
his bosom that his fellow man knew him
AS general thing the world never did
Ike prophets, especially in their lifetime,
and very few ever escaped some kind Of
persecution, no matter whether they were
bible prophets or not. Why did they do
this? Was it because they did not be-
lieve in prophets? No. They believed
in them. How then? Why, because
they ''loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil; y and 50
they took advantage of their fellow men.
sProphesying gerveth not for them
which believeth not, but fer them which
believe" l Cor, Il, %. GA prudent
man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself,
but the simple pass on and are punished. "
"Despise not prophesying prove all things
and hold fast that which is good" If we
believe in the bible we must believe in As
trology.
There is no doubt in the minds of all
who have given the subject patient investi-
CATION, with the mind void of all preju-
dice, that all territories, cities and places
are governed by, or are in sympathy with
certain parts of the Zodiac. We find the
sign Genlini to sympatbise with this coun-
try, for when Hershel enters that sign we
find that important events have always ta-
ken place in it. The above rule will hold
good ever since this country was discover
ed. Hersehel is 81 years in passing thro'
the twelve signs Of the Zodiac.
In the year 1924, according to history,
we find Francis l., of France, turned aside
alike from his elegant and his warlike pur-
suits, and one year before his defeat at Pa
via, be found for his service another ltal-
ian discoverer, John Verrazani, Eioren-
tine who reached the continent in the lati-
tude of Wilmington, North Carolina. He
then sailed fifty leagues South, but finding
no convenient harbor, he returned and
cast anchor, being the first European who
had afforded the astonished natives the
spectacle of the white race. They were
received with rude and barbarous hospitali-
ty. Is not this very remarkable event
in the history of our country
We will next follow the planet Hershel
through another revolution, which brings
US to the eventful year 1908. On refer
ence to history you will find events
very uncommon In 1909, the second
year of Hershel's transit in Gemini, we find
the colony reduced by famine and distress.
Understand that Herschel remains seven
years in one and the same sign of the 10
diac
The next period of Hershel brings US to
the year 1892, when the State obtains a
new Charter, with extended limits.
At another period of Herghel, We find
ourselves in 1776, the year of indepen-
dence, or freedom from the mother coun-
try.
We are now passing the fifth revolution
of Hershel On December the 10Th, one
hour 5 minutes P NJ, when South Gar
olna left the Union, as they thought, the
position Of the heavens was very untoTtu-
nate, so far as they were concerned, Tor
Mars, their sign, was afflicted, and three
a,,,o,;o, nlonofc wera retroprade. denoting