A Complete Dictionary of Astrology by James Wilson Esq Philomath - first published 1885 (1971).pdf

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A
COMPLETE
IN WHICH
EVERY TECHNICAL AND ABSTRUSE TERM
Belonging to the science is minutely and con·ectly explained,
AND THE
VARIOUS SYSTEMS AND ONIONS
OF
THE MOST APPROVED AUTHORS
CAREFULLY COLLECTED AND ACCURATELY DEFINED.
COMPRISING
The only rationallethod of calculating NATIVITIES,
and The Doctrine of HORARY QUESTIONS complete.
DIVESTED OF THEIR EXTRAVAGANCE, CONTRADICTIONS,
AND A»SURDITIES.
BY
WITH AN IXTRODUCTORY PREFACE
P RO�'. OLIVER AMES GOOLD.
Bv JAMES WILSON Es: Philomath.
SAMUEL WEISER
New York
1971
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First Printing 1969
Second rinting 1971
SAMUEL WEISER, INC.
734 Broadway
New York, N.. 10003
ISBN 0-87728-086-X
Library of Congress Card Nmber: 79-16506
Printed in U.S.A. by
NOBLE OFFS.T PRINTERS, INC.
NEW YORK 3, N. Y
•
. . ...
PROLEGOXEKl.
I
assignd me, With no other puoe or ex­
ation, than to aid such persons as are endeavoring o advance in
"knowledge of the principles of planetary science, and their ap­
plication to evey day practice.
In the course of my earlier study of the elementary part of the
adence (before I had ventured to its practice),
aume the
tsk
applied to an old
nn<l quite learned professor of strology, and, with candor, asked
him some plain and simple questions for information. I received
In reply no scrap of knowledge, but met with the discouragement
of his ssumption that he could do what no one else could, in the
1Lpplication of planetary laws. He appeared anxious to shroud
the subject in mystery, and to claim special inspiration neccessary
to
I
its understanding and practice. My resolution was then, and
there, tuned more positively toward the avenues of information,
nnd I rached a determination, with a unanimity of all the forces
of
my mind, to ever throw the greatest possible light upon the
1ubject, for the beneit of every honest and sincere seeker after its
truth, who should follow in my footsteps. In the years that have
(!lapsed since that time, I have ever held that experience in
vivid recollection, and have sent no student away hungering or
thirsting for information which it ws in
impart;
neither have I ever exacted or received in any instance, pecunia­
ry
power
my
o
compensation therefor.
It is with the desire to disseminate the principles which under­
lie this science, that I am induced to steal some time from the
lying hours in the midst of a very active life, in an endeavor
to
conduct the reader of the following pages to a more lucid under­
Mtanding of the authors meaning; also to correct some of his hon­
Pst erros of opinion in some important points and applications
of
the science.
As an apology for the errors aforenamed, let it not be forgoten
hy the reader, that the author, in his time, ws not a practitioner
iv
PROLEGOMENA.
of astrology
a means of livelihood ; hence was never able to
make as broad and extensive an application of his observation as
many others, whose necessities compelled them to constant and
unremitting efort and experiment: thus he omitted to verify
many aphorisms and truths of which others (perhaps less learned
in general philosophy) had found abundant or convincing proof.
I will be somewhat cxplic:� in my statement of what appears to
me to be erroneous in his enuneiation of the cardinal principles of
the ancient writers and eommentators on the subject. The reader
will observe that the author disc�rds entirely the whole signifi­
cance of the mansions or houses of the heavens, in the considera­
tion of nativities; likewise the "essential dignity" of the planets;
also the Moon's north and south nodes ; declaring, that as there is
nothing except a point or place, no influence could possibly
spring therefrom, unless it could come from nothing.
My own experience and obsen·ation have taught me that too
much stress should not be placed upon the houses of the heavens,
or predictions ventured based entirely upon the house in which a
planet is posited, a transit occurs, or a direction falls; but I ind
s
a
daily application of the usefu;ness of this division of the zodiac
into mansions or houses.
Take, for example, the four angles of the figure, embracing the
irst, tenth, seventh and fourth houses of the heavens. Almost
every person possessing any knowledge of a igure of the heavens,
and competent to judge it, to any extent, has found expel'imental
evidence of the fact that the angle of the east, or irst house, ever
exercises an inluence over the personal afairs of the native, and
fortunats or afiicts according to its strength or weakness. In
the same manner it will be found that the angle of the south or
tenth house inluences the afairs of business, or profession, honors
and reputation of the native; while
seventh house afects the
concerns of wives, enemies, or opponents; and the fourth, or on­
gle of the north, gi �es signification of real estate, of the ultimate
of life, and in the language of the learned :r. Lilly, "ever of the
father of the native."
I have substantiated the truth of these in a gener:1l way, and
with suicient correspondence of detail to justify me in its pro­
mulgation as an astrological axiom. I have ever foun<l in my
practice, the Moon's nodes significant in the dmractPr to which
the ancient teachers have assigned them, viz: the north node, lwn­
efic; nnd the south, maleic in in!luPtwe. I am of the opinion
Umt nny person posseRRing
the
of thn heavt>n! fot·
time
n figut·o
tlw
of tholr
rif y the tt·uth of thiM mwitmt tl()(�u·ine of tho
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