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not his ruler. A seed which is planted in the ground 

 contains in itself all that is necessary for developing into 

 a tree, if the conditions necessary for such a develop- 

 ment are furnished. It has the Ens Seminis in itself; 

 but if the sun did not exist, it would never grow. The 

 seed needs a Digest, and this is furnished by the soil, but 

 the soil would be useless without being warmed by the 

 sunshine. A child in the womb of its mother contains 

 in its Uns Seminis the power to grow, its Digest is the 

 womb in which it lives, it requires neither planets nor 

 stars ; its planet and star is its mother. A child may 

 be conceived or born during the best constellation of 

 planets, and nevertheless have very bad qualities. In 

 such a case the planets are not to blame ; it is the Ens 

 Seminis, which it has inherited in its blood." 



" Man lives within the invisible world comparable to 

 the yolk in an egg. The chicken grows from the white 

 of the egg, which constitutes its chaos, and man is 

 nourished by his chaos. Within man are the sun and 

 moon, the planets and all the rest of the stars, and also 

 the chaos'* (Paragran., ii.). 



The outward influence of the stars on the sky avails 

 nothing, if there is not a corresponding power in the 

 organism of man upon which it can act ; but if the germ 

 of disease is present, the corresponding influence of the 

 stars acts upon it. For instance, a man in whom $ or 

 $ are the ruling powers may be rendered very passionate 

 during a conjunction of Venice and Mars. Another born 

 under the influence of sj^ may be troubled with rheu- 

 matic pains whenever Neptune stands prominent on the 

 sky. An observation of the contents of the astronomical 

 almanac might often aid our physicians in making a 

 correct prognosis. 



"The moon exercises a very bad influence, especially 

 at the time of the new moon, which may be very inju- 

 rious for persons whose sidereal bodies possess magnetic 

 elements that will attract that influence, and the con- 



