This section is from the book "Astrology In A Nutshell", by Charles Henry Webber. Also available from Amazon: Astrology In a Nutshell.
No man can catch or steal the ideas of another, unless his brain is properly attuned as a receiver of those ideas-Even if properly attuned, attention must be given to the ideas as they are expressed, else the ideas would be like angels' visits to a man's home when the man is absent and the house closed. What we are writing will reach only the minds of the few. To some, ideas far beyond our expression will be evolved, while to others this writing will be but a combination of words. All writings are the same.
Ideas contained in writings, whether Scriptural, Shakespearian or puerile billingsgate reach only those minds that are attuned to receive them. Other minds are as unconscious of the existence of such ideas as the rock-bound coast la unconscious of the waves that lick it.
Astrology is founded like wireless telegraphy upon the laws of vibration, and these vibrations are graded from the finest order of undulations under Mercury to the longest order of swells under Neptune.
The growth of the mind in human form 1b from the keenly sensitive Mercurial waves to the long and calloused swells of Neptune waves.
The Kingdom of Heaven, or keenest sense of delight, was likened by Jesus to the child mind.
Child minds do not alone exist in bodies of tender years. When a person - no matter how old - becomes first interested in a new subject or thing he then is in the enjoyment of a child ish mind, and he is ready to receive any ideas on his new theme, whether transmitted through the atmosphere from an unseen source, or delivered by word of mouth in his presence.

Transmission of Ideas can only be made to a rightly attuned mind or instrument, properly attentive or opened to receive.
This same law applies to every order of telegraphy whether physical, mental or wireless.
Wisdom cannot be taught to a fool, neither will a wise man be the recipient of foolishness.
These two extremes are cold resistances to each other.
Two fools may agree or two wise men may act in harmony, but fool and Wise man are on different planes of life, and their attention or attune-ment is in different keys or octaves.
We are divided into tribes Zodiacal-ly spoken of as 12 - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc.
Bach of the tribes by lunar differentiations are biblically alluded to as 144, while still further differentiated by the resistance of planetary vibrations, crossing and criss-crossing the solar and lunar rays, would carry the range of differences in each of the different tribes, into the millions.
The Astrologer's work of judgment is based on the simple, fundamental laws of what are known as the "wave theory," which Marconi, in wireless telegraphy is practically demonstrating to be a law in the ether of the heavens, and in the waters of the earth.
In other schools of thought this is known by the name "vibration," through which in the disturbance of the ether, by the movements of one thing, other things sensitively attuned to the undulation, are affected for good or for ill.
In ancient times the same law was known under the term "rays of light" or of color, or, as in the bible, "lines of motion." "Their lines have gone out unto all the nations."
"Hypnotic influence," so-called, is nothing but the lines of influence going out into the ether and affecting some person, sensitive or attuned to the particular influence or etherial suggestion, by planetary law.
The same cause produces the same effect, invariably. Both the cause and the effect depend upon the harmony or the discord existing between the instrument of the cause and the instrument of the effect.
The cause and the effect in Nature, are governed by the planetary movements upon the zodiacal ether, and this is fate, but there is a law of Destiny, which is above Nature, and belongs to the supernatural realm - the realm outside the Zodiac.
The supernatural is that spark within us which connects us with the powers beyond tine Zodiac and comes to us through the life saving powers of the Sun, and this spark of Destiny shapes our end to a higher etherial law, unless by deep immersion into matter, we lose it and follow the downward pathway of fate.
Causes and effects may be called by any name, or by a variety of names, as at the Tower of Babel, but we "cannot rail the seal from off the bond" of Divine operations in Nature. "The rose will smell as sweet by any other name." New names are merely evidences of the knowledge or the ignorance of the one who uses them.
 
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