The general principles of astrology

642 Pages·2002·251.03 MB·English

by  Aleister Crowley

THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES
OF ASTROLOGY
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ALEISTER CROWLEY
WITH
EVANGELINE ADAMS
THE
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
OF
ASTROLOGY
LIBER DXXXVI
EDITED BY
HYMENAEUS BETA
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Boston, MA/York Beach, ME
This edition first published in 2002 by
Red Wheel/Weiser, Inc.
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Material first published in Evangeline Adams, Astrology, 't&ur Place in the Sun
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947.
The general principles of astrology / Aleister Crowley with Evangeline Adams. Edited by
Hymenaeus Beta.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87728-908-5 (hardcover: alk. paper) --ISBN 0-87728-909-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Astrology. 2. Occultism. I. Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947. II. Adams, Evangeline
Smith, 1859?-1932. III. Hymenaeus Beta, 1955-. IV Title.
BF1708.1.C7572002
133.5--dc21 00-036517
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Table of Contents
Figures, Tables and Charts Vll
Abbreviations and Symbols Xlll
Acknowledgments xv
Editor's Introduction XVll
Technical Note: Crowley's Methods of Astrological Interpretation XXXIX
LIBER DXXXVI: THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY
Preface 3
Introduction to the General Principles of Astrology 7
CHAPTER 1 Man and the Universe 17
CHAPTER 2 The Technical Elements of Astrology 21
CHAPTER 3 How to Set Up a Figure of the Heavens Suitable for an
Astrological Judgment 24
CHAPTER 4 The General Signification of the Planets 27
CHAPTER 5 The General Signification of the Signs 32
CHAPTER 6 The General Signification of the Aspects 45
CHAPTER 7 The General Principles ofJ udging a Figure 47
CHAPTER 8 The Master Key to Astrology 49
CHAPTER 9 The Houses of Heaven 53
CHAPTER 10 The Rising Signs 59
CHAPTER 11 The Sun 155
The Influence of the Sun on the Individual 156
The Sun Symbolically Considered 158
The Sun in the Signs 160
CHAPTER 12 The Moon 175
The Influence of the Moon on the Individual 178
The Moon Symbolically Considered 180
The Moon in the Signs 182
CHAPTER 13 Mercury 200
Mercury Symbolically Considered 203
Mercury in the Signs 205
CHAPTER 14 Venus 219
Venus Symbolically Considered 221
Venus in the Signs 223
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CHAPTER 15 Mars 248
Mars Symbolically Considered 250
Mars in the Signs 252
CHAPTER 16 Jupiter 267
Jupiter Symbolically Considered 270
Jupiter in the Signs 272
CHAPTER 17 Saturn 290
Saturn Symbolically Considered 294
Saturn in the Signs 296
CHAPTER 18 Uranus 314
Uranus Symbolically Considered 320
Uranus in the Signs 323
Uranus in the Houses 355
CHAPTER 19 Neptune 381
Neptune Symbolically Considered 385
The Influence of Neptune on the Individual 390
Neptune in the Signs 392
Neptune in the Houses 400
Neptune in His Aspects to the Other Planets 424
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 My Theory of Astrology 437
APPENDIX 2 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology 441
APPENDIX 3 How Horoscopes are Faked 445
APPENDIX 4 Charts, Biographies and Index to Chart References 449
APPENDIX 5 Tables and Diagrams 533
Editorial Notes 545
Works Cited 577
Index 587
Illustration Credits 595
Figures, Tables and Charts
FIGURE 1 The Outer Planets of the Solar System 6
FIGURE 2 A Renaissance Geocentric Cosmos ofTen Heavens 16
FIGURE 3 A Modern Geocentric Cosmos 20
FIGURE 4 The Emperor 36
FIGURE 5 The Pope 36
FIGURE 6 The Lovers 37
FIGURE 7 The Charioteer 37
FIGURE 8 Strength 38
FIGURE 9 The Hermit 38
FIGURE 10 Justice 39
FIGURE 11 Death 39
FIGURE 12 Temperance 40
FIGURE 13 Art (Crowley/Harris) 40
FIGURE 14 The Devil (Crowley/Harris) 41
FIGURE 15 The Devil 41
FIGURE 16 The Sabbatic Goat (Levi) 42
FIGURE 17 The Star 43
FIGURE 18 The Star (Crowley/Harris) 43
FIGURE 19 The Moon 44
FIGUIU 20 The Twelve Houses with Mundane Attributions of Natural Signs 55
FIGURE 21 The Septenary and the Zodiac in Contrary Motion 315
FIGURE 22 The Classical Septenary of Planets 533
FIGURE 23 Essential Dignities (2). Rulers, Exaltations and Superior Governors 535
FIGURE 24 Essential Dignities (4). Rulers by Sign and House 536
FIGURE 25 Essential Dignities (5). Elemental Triplicities 537
FIGURE 26 Essential Dignities (7). Quadruplicities: Cardinal, Kerubic (Fixed)
and Mutable 537
FIGURE 27 The Psychological Tree of Life 540
FIGURE 28 The Tree of Life with Crowley's Final Astrological Attributions 541
FIGURE 29 The Symmetrical Disposition of Rulers and Superior Governors 544
FIGURE 30 The Heavenly Hexagram showing Rulers and Superior Governors 544
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VllI THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY
TABLE 1 Planetary Positions for Charts Illustrating the Master Key to Astrology 51
TABLE 2 Neptune in History 382
TABLE 3 The Classical Septenary of Planets and their Attributions 533
TABLE 4 The Genethliac Values of the Planets 534
TABLE 5 The Triple Trinity of the Planets 534
TABLE 6 Essential Dignities (1). Rulers, Exaltations, Detriments and Falls,
by Planet 535
TABLE 7 Essential Dignities (3). Rulerships, Exaltations, Falls, Detriments,
Superior Governors, Decans (Faces) and Sex, by Zodiacal Sign 536
TABLE 8 Essential Dignities (6). Zodiacal Triplicities by Element with
Planetary Rulers by Day and Night 537
TABLE 9 Essential Dignities (8). The Triplicities of the Zodiac 538
TABLE 10 Astrology, Qabalah and the Tarot 539
TABLE 11 The Planets and the Sexes 542
TABLE 12 The Zodiac and the Parts of the Body 543
TABLE 13 Mundane Astrology and the Zodiacal Rulers of Countries 544
TABLE 14 Book Outline and Table of Contents, from Typescript 546
TABLE 15 Sources (Typescript, Sun and Stars) and their Arrangement 549
TABLE 16 Comparative Analysis of Source Texts 553
CHART 1 Congenital Idiot 177
CHART 2 Henry Ford 183
CHART 3 Walt Whitman 228
CHART 4 Elbert Hubbard 230
CHART 5 Rutherford B. Hayes 235
CHAR T 6 Mark Twain 241
CHAR T 7 Robert Burns 245
CHART 8 Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Prince of Wales 330
CHART 9 Florence Maybrick 330
CHAR T 10 John Burns 331
CHAR TIl Billy Sunday 331
CHART 12 Lizzy Lind-af-Hageby 337
CHART 13 Violet Mary Charlesworth 338
CHART 14 George Borrow 340
CHAR T 15 Phyllis Dare 341
CHART 16 Zena Dare 341
CHART 17 Emile Loubet 354
CHART 18 Drowned at Age 27 372
CHART 19 Child Drowned at 3 Years 372
CHART 20 Child Suffocated at Birth (1) 372
CHART 21 Child Suffocated at Birth (2) 372
CHART 22 Child Strangled by Falling off Chair 372
CHART 23 Child Strangled by Mother 372
CHART 24 Orville Ward Owen 425
CHART 25 Neptune "dual mind" 426
Figures, Tables and Charts
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CHAR T 26 Napoleon III 442
CHART 27 Adolf Hitler 442
CHAR T 28 'Abbas Effendi 450
CHART 29 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 450
CHAR T 30 Alexander the Great 451
CHART 31 Alexander II 451
CHAR T 32 Pope Alexander VI 452
CHART 33 Edith Allonby 452
CHART 34 H. H. Asquith 453
CHART 35 Wilhelm Backhaus 453
CHAR T 36 Arthur James Balfour 454
CHART 37 Honore de Balzac 454
CHART 38 Marie Bashkirtseff 455
CHAR T 39 Charles Baudelaire 455
CHART 40 Annie Besant 456
CHART 41 Bismarck 456
CHART 42 William Blake 457
CHART 43 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 457
CHART 44 Rosa Bonheur 458
CHAR T 45 Cesare Borgia 458
CHART 46 Georges Boulanger 459
CHART 47 John Bright 459
CHAR T 48 Henry Peter Brougham (Lord Brougham) 460
CHART 49 William Jennings Bryan 460
CHAR T 50 Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Lord Lytton) 461
CHART 51 Sir Richard Burton 461
CHART 52 Lord Byron 462
CHART 53 Sadi Carnot 462
CHART 54 Lewis Carroll 463
CHART 55 Joseph Chamberlain 463
CHART 56 Charles I 464
CHART 57 Thomas Chatterton 464
CHART 58 Frederic Chopin 465
CHART 59 Sir Winston Churchill 465
CHART 60 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 466
CHART 61 Mabel Collins 466
CHART 62 Nicolaus Copernicus 467
CHART 63 Oliver Cromwell 467
CHART 64 Aleister Crowley 468
CHART 65 Dante 468
CHART 66 Datas 469
CHART 67 Alphonse Daudet 469
CHART 68 Sir Humphry Davy 470
CHART 69 Charles Dickens 470
CHART 70 Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) 471
CHART 71 Alfred Dreyfus 471