The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-26
BY ASTRAL LAW, THE
JAPS JUST HAD TO WIN
From the New York Sun.

Here is the explanation of the sue
cess of the japanese in the war
/ against Russia from the standpoint
of astral law:
The names of very successful people
are always a matter of interest, and
in countries of occult culture almost
the first question applied to a new
thing or person is how is he named?
In the last round of Japanese sue
cess, Oyama is the winning factor.
Oyama may as a name, look Just as
sereM9 to us as Smith or Brown, but
behold how it speaks to the men of
the Far East. There it is o Yama, or
% power over hell" or 20 pronouncer
of Internal judgments"
The first syllable of the name of
Gen. kuroki contains a whole volume
of power in two letters. 1t is trace
able to the Golden Bull, an object of
almost supreme veneration as the
Great God Ur. But still more impor-
tant are these letters as the initial
syllable of their heavenly patronymic,
or patron star, Uranus.
In astral law it belongs to the Or
der of thing that Japan should win
anything undertaken this year, and
has been so from the beginning. Russia
has fought out of her planetary orbit,
and neither military prestige nor pre-
ponderance of equipment could work
against what was set for her defeat
supposedly at creations dawn.
AS a practical follower of religion
the Jap is an occultist This presup-
poses, in it's very finest sense, a knowl-
edge of astral law and planetary at
fractions and influences. This culture
has been the immanent soul of Orien-
tai religions for ages.
The Jap of to-day is but the i'm
proved growth of the Jap of 5000 years
ago. He is up to date in many things,
not the least of which is a knowledge
of how to preserve racial strength.
Ethnic solidarity has not been weak
ened by amalgamation, in taking on
new territory and new cults and Gull
lures.
Those people and those races who
study the laws of life on the astral
plane understand that in the relations
of planetary conditions and positions
there are periods of tremendous force
magnetically interchanged or swept
from one point of the universe to an
other-its polar affinity. All students
of astrology know that this attraction
or occultation is now upon Japan from
the planet Uranus.
The little island sits, as it were, 'in
the shadow of a great rock" to use
a serfptural expression, but the occult.
lists say, very POLITICALLY THE waves
Of light have drawn her into their
arms. They have carried her into
the bosom of her faithful star"
1t is Japan's moment of divine
strength. Though every general in
the Russian army had the syllable
''ur' in his name as has Kuropatkin,
it would still be the same, as reck-
oned in occult wisdom. This is Rus
sia's off year.
In the cultures of the Orient. either
to be called religious or phiIosophic,
the character 20" is a symbol of pow
er. In connection with mas "on"
lit signifies the very source of that
which is power, strength, wisdom.
This syllable in some of it's forms is
the great prayer of the Buddhist ma
tons. The Japs chant it on the march.
Their drums beat it. Their priests
name it constantly.
All the heart of the race is welded
as it were, in the same note of
meaning. This is a kind of solidarity
we of the West know but little about;
but for ages it has gone out from
Buddhist lips as an invocation to ev-
cry force in nature. Occultly speaking,
it is natures note in the sounds pos
sible of utterance
In the occult appeal to forces that
lie in nature everywhere there is the
very ancient law. 1t does not seem
difficult for us, even at a distance of
1000 years, to believe the story that
the stars led the wise men to the
birthplace of Jesus.
Japan has always had her wise men,
They are supported by the state and
kept in lives of retirement and con-
temptation, that they may study the
stars and other phases of natural law
for the welfare of the race; and it is
not to be supposed that so gentle a
people selected their own time for war
with an apparently all powerful en-
envy without knowing that the stars
were in their favor.