Book can be placed in the squares, tvithout forming a tarot^

is so perfectly enormous, that the mind of man cannot encompass it. There being more than a billion non-tarots to one tarot.
I am aware that these figures will lay me open to criticism from superficial thinkers, as did my statement in " Religion of the Stars," relating to homeopathic attenuations. But, if any person wishes to take me up on my statement contained herein, let him be sure of his figures before hand.
Several persons wrote to me upon the subject of the "homeopathic statement " I made oh page 128 of the Temple Lectures, where I said that the thousandth potency of natrum muriaticum contained less than a grain of salt to ten thousand tons of sugar of milk, and a grain of that triturated with a million tons more of the sugar.
Some contended that the statement was " wild and unten- able." To satisfy myself as to whether I did make a '' wild " statement or a " mild " one, I began a careful math- ematical examination of the question. Friends, as I am a
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livinf^ man, I did not dare publish the results. I was utterly astounded at the truth when I found it.
Why, my statement was so much under the truth m regard to quantity, that, if one called my statement one grain of sand, the truth would fill the entire space covered by our cluster of over sixteen million suns; which is so large that it is estimated that light consumes fifteen thousand years in crossing from one side to the other. Not only this, but there would be enough sand left over to fill the same space more than fourteen thousand times ! !
CALCULATIONS OF POTENCIES.
This is as good a place as we shall have to introduce the rales for the calculations of potencies on the decimal system. The reason for introducing it here is for the purpose of showing the connection between the mystic star and the units of measure.
It has been found from many sources, that of the pyramid measure being a prolific one, that measures are not arbitrary, but are all based upon some fact in nature. It is not strange that the repetend that occupies the points of the double triangle, being as it is, a repetend of the sacred number seven, should have some such connection. The star is on page 25.
Let it be required, to find how many pounds of sugar of milk there would be, to one grain's weight of the drug, in a decimal trituration. Let P represent any required potency. Then P — 3=a;. Then begin on the top point of the star and set down the number of spots on each card, passing to the left on the star and making your figures to the right of the seven. Keep this going until you have made as many figures as iviJl he equal to x.
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This is a solution of the problem which is indeed a tedious one by ordinary mathematics. What is more, it is absolutely correct. Avoirdupois weight is used, as that is the one for large weights.
EXAMPLE FOE PRACTICE.
How many pounds of sugar of milk would there be, to one grain of salt, in a potency of 20, of natrum muriaticum? Ans. 14,285,714,285,714,285 or over fourteen quadrillions.
RULE NUMBER II.
To find how many tons of a trituration would contain one grain of the drug. Subtract eight from the number of the potency, or P — 8=x.
Begin at the 7 point and set down the figures as in rule 1 to the amount of x. This gives the answer in tons.
Example: How many tons of sugar of milk would con- tain a grain of the active principle, at the 32d trituration, or potency ?
Ans. 714,285,714,285,714,285,714,285, or over seven hundred sextillions of tons.
The statement made by me in " Temple Lectures'' was equiv- alent to less than 20 sextillions of tons, so that if I had said the thirty-second potency, instead of the thousandth, my state- ment would then have been far below the truth, or thirty- five times too small.
I do not intend to throw a straw in the way of that prac- tice, however. In fact, I am a full believer in it and have used none other in my family for years. But I do want to impress upon the minds of our readers the great truth that the unseen astral potencies are stronger than the seen. I firmly believe that the potency of high homeopathic dilutions
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and triturations are in reality sjnrit potentials., and therefore heal through spirit power. These are my conclusions; take them or leave them as you choose.
Our sun, together with all his planets and satellites, weigh less than two octillions of tons. Less than one-third of the sugar of milk in the 36th potency, containing one grain of drug. Our entire system of suns are estimated at sixteen and a half millions in number and would weigh about thirty- three million octillions of tons at the avei'age weight of our own solar system. This vast weight is less than the amount of the forty-third decimal trituration.
So many people fail to grasp the wonders of nature, through their inability to realize the cold facts revealed by mathematical demonstration. Such persons cannot under- stand the wonders of the Mystic Test Book and the tremen- dous co-ordinations that exist with its emblems.
Some think " chance" brings about the wonders, when the results cannot by any possibility be attributed to chance.
In the same way, many erronious opinions are held by in- dividuals, which opinions would be dispelled by a little common sense resort to mathematics. I have had numbers of people take up some statement of mine, such as the one regarding the " curve of the earth's orbit," and show from their treatment of the subject that they knew nothing about the mathematical laws governing curves. ,
In view of all the foregoing facts, the reader need not wonder that the author regards the " Religion of the Stars " as the divine religion of man, and mathematical science as its priest and interpreter.