TWENTY-FIRST YEAR.] [HALF-A-CROWN. THIRD 10,000 COPIES, 108 MYSTIC PAGES, PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND. Nativity of the Infant, Born to the Queen Victoria, IS CALCULATED IN FULL, IN RAPHAEL'S PROPHETIC MESSENGER: AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL, AND ASTRONOMICAL ALMANAC. THE WEATHER GUIDE FOR 1841, ACCORDING TO A NEW MAGNETICAL SYSTEM DISCOVERED BY RAPHAEL; ALSO A FIGURE OF THE HEAVENS, Which depicts the most eventful periods during the year 1841, calculated from the Horoscopes of RAPHAEL'S ASTRO-BIOGRAPHICAL GALLERY, In which are extracts from the Horoscopes of eminent Statesmen, and celebrated Characters of our own country, and foreign powers. The Time of High Water, Morning and Afternoon, at London Bridge. Moon's Signs, Moon's Southings, Moon's Age, Moon's Quarters during the Month. Time of the Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting for every Day, Moveable Feasts and Fasts, Important Events, &c. BY RAPHAEL, THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. By the same Author, with two large folding Plates, 4s., or coloured, 6s., a Fourth Edition of RAPHAEL'S LADY WITCH; or, ORACLE OF THE FUTURE. Also, with a large Frontispiece, price 4s. Raphael's Pythoness of the East, or Complete Key to Futurity; Translated from the original MS. of the celebrated MYSTICAL DIVINING BOOK of the Empress Josephine, and consulted with success by Prince Puckler Muskau, &c. Vide, “Tour of a German Prince," vol. 3. WILLIAM CHARLTON WRIGHT, 4, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. PREFACE. THIS work is intended to be a Miscellany of Astrology, Astronomy, Geology, Meteorology, Phrenology, and other branches of Natural Philosophy, the investigation of which may advance THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY, or that valuable series of Truths of which mankind in all ages and in all countries have had partial glimpses, but which have, among a few past generations, been overwhelmed by the hallucinations of pretended theories of physics, alike wanting in the solid basis of experience and the ornamental structure of inductive reasoning. Nor has he world suffered by the introduction of erroneous physical principles only, for these have drawn after them a flood of wild and dreamy speculations in morals; whence has appeared a Protean monster, hurling destruction on all those who dispute his sway or deny his authority; who, clothed in the harlequin garb of variety in faith and opinions, has almost pushed the modest follower of simple, practical Truth from the highway of society. It will be the leading object of The Horoscope to remove the rubbish of modern arguments, and to penetrate to the very granite or first formation of public opinion; and its constant endeavour will be to rectify the mischief produced by writers, who, though possessed of science in the general acceptation of the term, have yet been ignorant of those sublime principles of knowledge which bent the master minds of ancient nations to their sway; and thus to place the present generation once again on a fair footing as to the grand question of "WHAT IS TRUTH?" The existence of the Deity; the consummate wisdom and benevolence in all his works; the utter impossibility of the puny doctrines of CHANCE; the, therefore, necessity of eternal and divine guidance, so beautifully obvious in the unerring and astounding motion of the Earth and Planets, and (to those who will draw truth from her well, instead of ignorantly denying her existence) the no less beautifully concurrent existence of their mutual influence; the immensity and permanency of the whole creation; the pigmy littleness of man, one among thousands of millions of inhabitants of a globe, itself only a small unit among uncounted millions of systems of worlds, all, it must be presumed, equally the objects of divine creative power, care, and love, alike incorruptible; these are a few of the outlines of that vast picture, to fill up which the writers in this work will exert their best energies. Many of the ancient, and most of the modern views of THE TRUE PHI VOL I. NO. I.—JANUARY. B |