the Arabian Al Dalw, the Well-Bucket : that The 

 in China of old its sign was recognised as a ^JSdes. 

 symbol of the Emperor Tchoim Hin, the 

 Chinese Deucalion : and that still among the 

 astrologers of Central Asia and Japan it has 

 for emblem the Rat, the far- Asiatic ideograph 

 for water. Strange too that Star-Seers so 

 remote as the Magi of the East and the 

 Druids of the West should centrate their 

 stellar science on this particular constellation. 

 And, once more, not less strange that alike by 

 the banks of the Euphrates where it was 

 called the Star of Mighty Destiny, on the 

 Arabian Sands, where it was called the Fortune 

 of all Fortune, and in the Druidic woods of 

 the Gaul and the Gael where too it symbolised 

 Fortune, a star of its group should be the Star 

 of Fortune — the group alluded to by Dante in 

 the Purgatorio : 



" . . . geomancers their Fortuna Major 

 See in the Orient before the dawn ..." 



Again, is it tradition or coincidence that 

 the Platonists of old held 'the stairs of 

 Capricorn ' to be the stellar way by which the 

 souls of men ascended to heaven, so that the 

 constellation became known as the Gate of 

 the Gods, and that to-day the astrologers and 

 mystics of the West share the same belief? 



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