under a lucky star? Why do the stars give good fortune to one and misfortune to others, and if we are born to ‘‘luck,’” whether good or bad, what is the use or where is the incentive to individual effort? If there is a law of nature which is established beyond doubt it is surely the law of Cause and Effect. Every cause must produce an adequate effect and nothing which we see as an effect can be without a pre-existent cause. Moreover, if this is a universal law it must apply to the conditions of birth as well as to subsequent life. Following up this idea the next question is: If our birth under a lucky or unlucky star is the effect of some prior cause, what may that be, or where and how was that cause generated? To that. there can be only one answer; that we must have made the causes in some previous existence which now result in our birth under e lucky or an unlucky star, Thus by induction a belief in Astrology requires also a belief in a previous existence as well as in future lives, for while we are now reaping in our horoscopes the effects of our past lives we are also by our acts laying the foundations for a new horoscope which can only be worked out in a future life,
“How closely luck is linked to merit
Does never to the foal occur;
Had he the wise man’s stone, I swear it,
The stone had no philosopher,”
said Mephisto sarcastically in “Faust” and it is
