Pray excuse this digression, my friends; I do not complain or want to complain, and I acknowledge the receipt of thousands of such good, kind and appreciative letters as would expand the heart of any one. But I foresee that the publication of this book will bring forth a host of questions unless I warn the public that I cannot answer them personally. If I find that some particular points are not generally understood, and it is possible to elucidate them more perfectly, I shall issue a printed bulletin containing the explanations.
Before going on with the directions for reading, it will be well perhaps to give instructions for finding the card of day and the birth card, for these cards frequently have an important bearing upon the delineations of the astral spread. The mode of finding the day card or birth card is precisely the same, for the day card ruling upon any particular date is the birth card of any person born at that time. This card has a part to play all through the life, as it is, as one might say, a type or emblem of the effects of the magnetism of the earth and planets at the time of the person's birth. What the signs and letters X, Y and Z are to algebra, the symbols composing the Mystic Test Book are to our astral calculations.
We "test "our work at every point. The writer discovered the error in the tables of Herschel and other astronomers, as to the motion of Jupiter, through the failure of the accepted tables to bring that planet to the point where his magnetic effect would correspond to that found by actual trial with the Test Book in 1887. The tables of motion of each planet were then tested separately before being used in our books, as an error in such expensive works
