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"It has been suggested that the cause of electrical storms is the sunspot, but it has not been officially noted that the same cause that produces the sunspot may also produce the storm. Sir Norman Lockyer sought to link up the phenomena of sunspots with high and low Nile tides, and later with droughts and floods. Similar
investigations and suggestions have been advanced by others in regard to the
periodicity of zymotic diseases, whether epidemic or endemic; which facts are brought forward in order to show that nature works by a species of pulsation, answering to a definite beat of time. In all there is an awareness of an underlying law of manifestation which appears to have escaped not detection but definition."114
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"This idea of the cyclic law, or law of periodicity, has arrested the attention of scientists, among whom we may cite Mendelieff,115 who has shown that the atomic
weights of the elements follow the natural octave; and Sir William Crookes, whose
Genesis of the Elements develops the same idea in regard to the differentiation of protyle via the hydrogen base by a graduation of the vibration-frequency and a proportionate diminishing of the mean free path or play-space of the various atoms. Then, again, the researches of Prof. Ray Lancaster in regard to sunspots has shown that the solar
disturbances come sporadically, i.e. in groups, at definite and well-defined periods. It has been shown, too, that these periods correspond to periods of famine, etc.
"Periodicity is, of course, at the base of planetary motions, and therefore also of cosmic changes."116
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"The cyclic law and that of periodicity are practically identical. For what we trace as the periodicity of phenomena, can be shown to bear a direct relation to
114 Sepharial, Hebrew Astrology: The Key to the Study of Prophecy, pp. 10-11. The material in this appendix is not specifically organized chronologically, but is organized in a way to make the quotes flow
harmoniously. It is the only departure in this book from the practice of chronological organization.
115 The Russian Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (various transliterations of the last name exist), the creator of the periodic table of chemical elements.
planetary cycles. Take, for instance, the periodicity of Sun-spots. The years of maximum frequency noted have led to the discovery of a period of 11 years and 40 days. Many years ago I published a statement to the effect that the rents in the luminous envelope or photosphere of the Sun would be found to coincide with the occursions of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Since then I have made further research, and I find that the mean of the two periods of these planets is 11 years and 203 days, which is in excess of the observed period of maximum solar activity by 163 days; but by taking the periods of Mars, Venus and the Earth into account, we have a period of 11 years 40 1/2 days, which is exactly what we want. The Sun-spot period of 11.11 years is, therefore, attributable to the combined action of the planets Venus, the Earth and Mars, the mean of whose cycles yields a period so exactly in conformity with it. Probably the introduction of Jupiter and Saturn to the equation would yield a
climacteric every fifth period. It is, however, of extreme interest to note that the years of the maximum Sun-spot appearance, 1871, 1882, 1904, 1916, 1927, are found to be associated with important configurations of the major planets: 1871, Saturn opposition Jupiter; 1882, Saturn conjunct Neptune; 1904, Jupiter opposition Uranus; 1916, Saturn conjunct Neptune; 1927, Jupiter conjunct Uranus. From this we might conclude that the luminous envelope of the Sun is acted upon by the planetary bodies when they are on the same solar meridian. An ingenious student of planetary influence, Prof.
Corrigan117, has suggested that by regarding the solar disc as a plane, and setting off
the orbits of the planets from the centre, the parallels of solar latitude tangent to the orbits of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, are those along which the greatest Sun-spot activity is shown. Thus he shows that at the latitude of 5° North and South of the Sun's
equator, spots are produced by the action of the planet Mercury on the Sun; at latitude 6° those produced by Venus's action are seen; at 7° those due to the action of the Earth and its satellite; at 13° those frequent spots due to Mars; and at 48° those due to
Saturn; while the band corresponding to the orbit of Jupiter is attended by the largest and most frequent display of Sunspots. Hence the Professor is quite in agreement with my original statement that Sun-spots are principally caused by Mars and Jupiter. This certainly upholds the original observation that Sun-spots are connected with the occursions of the planets Jupiter and Mars, but it would extend the period to 11 years and 203 days. The whole subject is, however, in its infancy."118
117 Severinus J. Corrigan. For Corrigan's findings and his relation of same to the weather, see The
Constitution and Function of Gases, the Nature of Radiance, and the Law of Radiation, pp. 131-133
http://books.google.com/books?id=cK83AAAAYAAJ and "An Astronomical Theory of the Molecule and an Electronic Theory of Matter: Solar and Terrestrial Physics Viewed in the Light Thereof" "Part III (Continued) The Nature of the Solar Radiations and Their Relation to Terrestrial Magnetism and Other Meteorological Phenomena" in Popular Astronomy Vol. 16, pp. 367-378
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1908PA...16..367C . 118 Sepharial, Cosmic Symbolism, pp. 105-106.
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"The present author has shown that the periodicity of sun-spots coincides to a decimal point with the mean periods of Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury — the planets that most nearly neighbour the great luminary. This is not a coincidence except in that it coincides with observed facts. Many coincidences make a Law. Astrology is full of such coincidences, and it is only a question as to how many are required to command the consideration of responsible people."119