The twelve signs of the Zodiac have always been supposed to represent the physical framework of man. This framework is but a vessel of breath, motion, and vibration, played upon by active thought-atmospheres, waves of sound and light, and positive and negative electromagnetic forces, in limitless activity.

For ages it has been known that man's physical body was influenced by recondite or occult laws, and that to this influence could be traced the cause of the difference between individuals, between the lives of the intelligent and the ignorant, the happy and the unhappy, the good and the vicious, the useful and the useless.

The Greeks and ancient Egyptians fully recognized this truth and obeyed it conscientiously. Their children were the strongest, the handsomest, the finest in the world, and their propagation of the species, founded upon the observance of law and order, was the crowning triumph of the age.

But what of to-day?

Our so-called advanced civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. Morality is based upon legality, and marriage, which should be the holiest institution in the world, is often a deeper and more degraded prostitution than any other form that exists. The people who are intellectually honest and free from prejudices know that these statements are true.

To every thoughtful and sympathetic man and woman the spectacle of to-day is that of quivering humanity nailed to a cross, from which rescue seems impossible. Close to our very doors we see a great multitude of men and women - flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood - living lives that are one long agony. Whence is all this error and darkness, and where is the remedy?

Ignorance is the cause and intelligence is the cure. The lust of sex and the lust of money have wellnigh destroyed the world.

Every child born into this world has the inalienable right of being born well. To produce unwelcome children for the sake of the gratification of a fleeting passion is a sin against God and humanity. It is time to stop. The people have been warned for many years. "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine," and the grist bids fair to smother the world.

The scientists and philosophers of past ages, from the Greek Pythagoras to Copernicus, taught that the combined influence of the stars and planets marked the vast differentiation of animal man, and that to every human being is given in one or another direction a divine genius or talent. This genius depends upon the rhythmic harmonies of nature's universal orchestra playing upon the physical organism of man. Not to know one's genius is to be governed and tossed about by the storms of life. To be able to embrace Opportunity is to live in the native sphere from whence all harmonies proceed.

The reader must ever bear in mind that there is no such thing as Fatality. These recondite laws act only upon the physical body, and are always amenable to the intelligent mind-action. The spiritual man is absolute monarch over every physical condition.

"Man is created only a little lower than the angels."

"Be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."

Much of the ancient knowledge in reference to harmonious companionship and the propagation of the species will be found in this volume, but, on account of the limit of the work and by the advice of wiser minds, the strictly esoteric has been only hinted at. But he who has eyes to see can read between the lines.

The inquisition of Galileo's time is not possible to-day. Light is gaining a victory over darkness. The true universe is being known, and dogmatism and prejudice are giving way to knowledge and tolerance.

The principles found in this volume are both a science and a religion for a better and a far happier humanity.