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IN Astrology for All, the first book of this Series, a considerable amount of information regarding the zodiac and the planets has been given, while in the succeeding volume the method of casting the horoscope was thoroughly gone into with full minuteness in every detail. The present work will consist of the methods used in judging the horoscope when it has been accurately cast.

The books comprising this Series have been so arranged that the student may have a special book dealing with each stage of his study, and thus avoid confusing the mind with that which does not directly belong to the department under consideration. In all former books on Astrology too much has been attempted in one volume, and no branch of the subject has ever received the full elucidation it deserves; though in fact no book ever will or can contain all that is to be known concerning this science. For Astrology is the most comprehensive study conceivable, a science which no mortal mind could invent, being the direct work of immortals who came from other worlds to instruct our infant humanity.

Astrology is one of seven keys required to unlock the door of the inner temple, but it is not the Astrology that is universally practised, for although this is a wonderful and useful study, it is only a key to the outer temple through which the aspirant must pass and the lessons of which he must learn ere he can prepare for the wisdom that is to be his when he shall pass into that inner temple to which the many may be called but only the few are chosen. Our world has never been without teachers ready and willing to instruct those who make the necessary conditions by fitting themselves to receive that knowledge, which is carefully guarded until humanity has grown strong enough to receive it. The divine mysteries are only for those who are ready to renounce the material world and claim their divine right to be heirs to the knowledge the Teachers have to impart.

In dealing with the general rules for judgment in the following pages, an attempt is made to strike a higher note than has hitherto been struck, and although it is not the highest, it is quite high enough for the present. What is here written has not been copied from other books, a practice which seems to have been adopted by the majority of writers on Astrology, but is the result of deep thought and practical experience, which I am anxious to share with my fellow students; and to those who like myself have become absorbed in its study this fragment of learning is offered in the hope that it will help them to judge a. horoscope more correctly than would otherwise be the case. For it strikes the note of the New Astrology, the foundation of which has been already laid by the establishment of Modern Astrology, the desire of which is to purify and re-establish the ancient science of Astrology, which, through planetary symbology, seeks to explain the One Universal Spirit in its varied manifestations.

ALAN LEO.