ISBN: 9781459091856

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VOICE OF THE STARS. It is the stars; The stars above us govern our conditions.--King Lear, As the science of Astrology is in this age, being rescued from obscurity and charlatanry by which it has been debased, and is becoming a worthy field of study and research to intelligent minds, even while students of spiritual freedom claim that the wise man rules his stars, and only the fool obeys them, it seemed that a portrayal of McCullough''s horoscope might add to the interest of this volume, the indications of what kind of man a person born under his planetary aspect would become, with a possible hint as to the cause of his early decline. But for this planetary reading, a knowledge of the hour of his birth was quite necessary. This important item, as it proved, was unknown to any one on earth, not even by his surviving sister, Mrs. Wert, to whom appeal was made. His own whispered hint just before daylight, was plainly heard by the writer, but this was not quite explicit enough. Asking him therefore, for exact information, he replied: The coming of another baby in those days was not a very important matter. Such an insignificant event created but a very small ripple on the surface of life, but if you place that ripple at four o''clock in the morning, you will get it nearly right. It is hard to understand those early conditions. The monotony of life was so intense. People seemed numb, or blunt or cold, especially regarding the marriage relation, or the birth of children; and so little was known of the outside world. With this data therefore, the hour, the month and the year of birth, were submitted to Miss Evangeline S. Adams, the well known astrologer and palmist of Boston and New York, whose fine reading is herewith appended: If Mr. McCull... Susie Champney Clark, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, John McCullough as Man, Actor and Spirit Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Murray and Emery company in 1905 in 380 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Literary Collections / General;<