places are identical, with the exception of the lunar, which, however, differs only some couple of minutes in longitude in the pair of nativities.

Many times there is remarked a striking difference in the personal appearance and characteristic traits of twins, which is brought forward as an argument of the nonpossibility of astrological intervention. In such instances the first birth is found to occur when the latter part of a sign ascends, and the second when the first few degrees of the following occupy the horizon. What change this would make upon the child born is patent, and especially where planets are near the ascendant, then rising out of orb of such point or approaching it, is sufficient to account for variations in the physical makeup. Par exemple: babe one, may see light when the sun occupies the cusp of first house in the latter degrees of Aries; while babe two, following shortly after, may have the first decan of Taurus for its ascendant, and the influence of the solar orb quite withdrawn from the orient cusp. I speak here simply of those twin births that take place within a short interval of time, otherwise the ascendant becomes no criterion of similarity, since the two may be under very widely separate portions of the zodiac, while the Moon also would have made new aspects or disintegrated old, the aspects and zodiacal positions of the major planets alone remaining the same.

The twins in our present article died from bronchitis on Sept. 3, 1899. Curiously enough from the father's horoscope I had deduced the death of one of his children during the sum

mer of this year,with an afflicted

from the primary arcs, one in mundo of

in fifth, and the other in ♂ in zodiac ( in fifth radix) and the D by secondary motion passing through the eighth house. When these births took place, they were cited as an awful example of the utter inconsistency and untrustworthiness of a miscalled science. My discomfiture was of short duration, and upon going over the ground again I perceived I might easily have forecast both the birth and death.

By the Ptolemaic system the Moon is indisputably hileg, and so for the train of killing directions we ought to look to her first, but as a fact she does not form any aspects at death, i. e., not close enough to account for it. Nor, agein, is it so greatly afflicted radically that one would decide against it carrying the child through its infantile stages. It bears, certainly, a square of Venus, and is going to a square of Mercury and an opposition of Mars, but it is strongly deposited in the house of life, and has a parallel of declination with Venus, and a trine from Sun. The solar orb, however, is found to be very heavily burdened by an opposition of Uranus, and parallels of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There is a double opposition in bronchial signs, viz., Sun and Uranus, and Saturn and Neptune, while Mercury is in the third- equivalent to Gemini of which it is ruler — and afflicted by a square of Mars angular in seventh. All these are testimonies of the character of the disease.

As for the influence brought to bear at change of physical for psychic we note that the first are formed by the Sun after birth - or we should rather say, strange as it may seem, the last formed before birth, since the direction was of a prenatal type— was the completion of the zodiacal par. dec. of Sun and Saturn. The Op. d. h forms in 8°6′40′′, with declination 21°N41' right ascension 66°20′, mer. dis. 0°57' and semiarc 59°54'. Then as

Thus the true arc was par. dec. ↳ conv. zod. 0°15′ and both children died under it on the 3d of August within half an hour of each other. The arc itself equated by the degree for a year method is as close as needs be, since 15' exactly equals in time three months.

HEINRICH DÄATH.

THE SUN A SYMBOL OF CHRIST.

"THE history of the Sun I repeat is the history of Jesus Christ. The Sun is born on the 25th of December, the birthday of Christ. The first and the greatest of the labors of Jesus Christ is his victory over the Serpent, the evil principle or the devil. In his first labor Hercules strangled the serpent as did Christna, Bacchus, etc. This is the Sun triumphing over the powers of hell and darkness, and as he increases, he prevails till he is crucified or is decussated in the form of a cross (according to Justin Martyr), when he passes the equator at the vernal equinox. But before he rises he is dead for about one day and four hours. This is nearly the time to be intercalated every six hundred years, to make the calculation come right at the beginning of the third day he rises again to life and immortality. The twelve labors of Hercules are his labors in passing through the signs of the zodiac, which are so similar to the history of Jesus Christ, as to induce the reverend pious and orthodox Parkhurst to declare them types of what the real Savior was to do and suffer. These celestial images are what induced the learned Alphonso the Great to declare that the whole history of Jesus Christ might be read in the stars. No doubt this explanation of the three days' descent into hell will be separated from the other explanations of the mythos, and thus taken alone will be represented as very ridiculous. But I ask what were the entombment and resurrection of Bacchus, Atys, Apollo of Nuletus, Adonis, Christna, Buddha, etc.? Were these real deaths and resurrections or astronomical myths?"

GODFREY HIGGINS' "ANACALYPSIS."

It is not without a certain sense of ironical amusement that we imagine the disgust with which an occasional reader (even of an Uranian magazine) will throw down this number when he finds that the above title is applied to a prizefighter. A low, rascally bruiser, the bugbear of all respectable bourgeois minds. But pause, my friend, possibly your point of view is a bit prejudiced and limited: there are prizefighters and prizefighters: it is said that there have been such who have sold the result of their contests before the event, a put up job," Mammon not Mars being the presiding god of their devotions.

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Our hero, for he was such, though he has not, we believe, yet formed the subject of one of Dr. Smiles' interesting books for the study of virtuous youth, was not of this variety; he was a genuine son of Mars, and no man ever called his honesty in question. He would, moreover, take for hours without flinching,