362 DEMONOLATRY. 



wood meeting earth would = ^^ friend, ^^ and therefore = oo ; but should 

 earth meet wood, then it would be " enemy, ^^ and therefore = X X ; and 

 water meeting wood = ^^ neutrality''^ or OX. While fire meeting watei 

 = " deadly Imte^"* and therefore = x X X . Then the average of the 

 total is taken as the average result of the conflict. And the several 

 remedies necessary to avoid each and all of the calamities thus fore- 

 told are specified categorically in the astrologer's books. 



With this explanation I now give here a sample copy of the 

 „ -if prescription of worship, demoniacal and otherwise, 



Jr rsscnptiOQ lor WOT- ■■■,■*■, ■*■. ,,' 



ship on account of tor One family for one year's ill-luck, in which the 

 One Year's iU-luck. prescribed woiship is italicised. I have added in 



An Annual Horoscope, iix jii, ix* i-i -u 



^ loot-notes some further explanations which may be 

 consulted by those interested in knowing in more detail the methods 

 by which the lama-astrologer makes his calculations. 



«' The MISFORTUNE ACCOVNT of the Family of for 



The EARTH-MOUSE YEAR (i.e., 1888 A.D.) 



Salutation to Manju SriP 



A. — Foe the Father of the family. 



I. — According to the birth conflict — 



This male, aged 26 years, being born in the Water-Hog year, that 

 year conflicts with the Earth-Mouse year (the present year) as 

 follows : — 



sroA or life =0) ox good? 



lus or body = oo, or better,^ 



wang thang or power = XX, or worse, 



lung-ta or wind-horse = ooo, or best. 



la or intelligence = X , or bad. 



' The Bodhisat Manjusri is the presiding divinity of the astrologers, and he is always 

 invoked at the head of astrologic prescriptions. 



^ The year of his birth being the Water-Hog gives, according to the astrologic table, Water 

 as the srog for that year, and the present year being the Earth-Mouse year its srog according 

 to the table, is also Water. Therefore Water meeting Water = O, i.e., " good." 



^ The lus of these two years are found by the table to give the elements respectively of 

 Water and Fire. Therefore W ■Bter meeting its friend Fire = OO or " better," i.e., good of the 

 second degree. 



