Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-12
ASTRO-PATHOLOGY IS TAUGHT
IN D. C.. AS COSMIC CURE-ALL
Sportive Children of the Milky Way Used
to Heal Illness and Bring Light
to Darkened Lives.

astrologists, while she belonged among
the coSmic aStrologiStS.
The mundane astrologist, the lady
said, draws horoscope and leaves the
patron to his dire fate. If the stars
say he Is to be hanged he will be
hanged, and that's all there is to 1t. The
practitioner can only read the stars,
not influence them. Such astrology,
the cosmic astrologist believes. has done
great deal of harm. The person
whose horoscope has been cast goes
away reasoning after this fashion:
80 I'm going to be hanged and
there's no getting away from it. It's
pretty tough, but If the stars say so 1t
must be true, for who am I to argue
with the stars? If I'm going to swing
anyway it might as we'll be for some
thing worthwhile. 1t would be public
service to remove Senator So-and-so. If
wait may kill Internationally some
innocent and worthy person and the
pangs of vain regret will be mingled with
the agony of the gallows."
So he packs gun in his hip pocket
and calls on Senator So-and-so, with
disastrous results for both parties.
Cosmic Leaves Appeal.
Nothing like that happens after a
consultation with a cosmic astrologist.
She may cast the same horoscope
showing that the patron is going to be
hanged. But she doesn't take his fee
callously and tell him to close the door
behind him. Even from the verdict of
the eternal stars themselves, she says,
there is an appeal, for greater than the
cosmos is the soul of man. Her horo-
scope merely should serve to warn him
of the direction in which he Is going.
He can change the course of his destiny
by volition, prayer and metaphysics.
That is where the astro-metaphysicia
and the psychologist apply their
fine technique.
Acknowledgements itself, the lady ex-
plains, Is the study of lifetime. There
are three cosmic planes. First is the
all-embracing infinite, mother Of time,
mother of space. 1t is mysterious and
Observation-Disclosures by an astro-meta-
physician in cases of dire emergency.
Next Is the universe of stars, the ma
chinery of the infinite, the medium
through which 1t works out its purposes.
Next is life, the child of the stars.
This, the stro-metaphysician eX-
plains is up-to-date, science. Didn't
Prof. Robert A. Milliken, discoverer of
the electron, Nobel prize winner IL
physics, explain to the National Acad-
envy of Sciences, the senate of American
science, here last Spring the cosmic
processes by which matter was created
and re-created in the plane of the
stars? DR.. Milliken, the hardest-boiled
skeptic must admit, did just that.
Milliken Only Amateur.
DR.. Milliken, by the way, has become
the patron saint of lots of PHILOSOPHERS
through his discovery of the mysterious,
powerful, penetrating cosmic rays which
are bombarding the earth's outer atmos-
phere. He himself, of course, is only
mundane scientist whose mind Is in
capable of the fine adjustments nee
essary for the ro-metaphysicia
But he is a good man for the rough
work, although totally incompetent of
approaching the real significance of his
| rays.
| Prof. Milliken may know all about
| electrons, but there Is very slim
| chance that he knows the first thing
| about "how to rejuvenate an old body
and invigorate a young one through
| the use of the cosmic ray; how to use
| the cosmic ray to develop individuality,
initiative and originality of ideas; how
| the personality can be rendered mag
netic and how popularity can be won
| through the cosmic ray; how to use
| the cosmic ray to attract wealth and
! affluence of every kind, or how success
| in every direction can be achieved by
| the power of the cosmic ray"
These are some of the titles of a
| course of lectures recently delivered
| in Washington. They are entirely in
| the province of the astro-metaphysician
and the astro-psychologist. These
alone know the secrets of "the tran
scendental triad, the cosmic conscious
ness, the planets and their cryptic SYM
| bols and the mystical meaning of the
stars" Some of them can tell what
| planetary ray you are on" and that
is enough to tell them just what sort
of fellow you are.
The practice Of astrology and belief
| in its pretensions extends among all
classes Of people in Washington, from
| colored washwomen to society women.
Some of the apparently authenticated
! claims of one local astrologist regard
| ing her patronage are startling In the
| extreme.
Newspapers carry full accounts, In
popular language, OF the bona-fide
work Of astronomers as the telescope
and the SpectraScope extend further
and further the bounds Of space and
the incomprehensible complexity of
the celestial system. But this only drives
| troubled souls to hide their heads even
| more stubbornly in the breast of an
| ancient mysticism.
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