The life and work of Alan Leo, theosophist, astrologer, mason

212 Pages·2010·7.94 MB·English

by  Leo, Bessie

THE LIFE AND WORK
OF
ALAN LEO
THEOSOPHIST-ASTROLOGER-MASON
WITH A FOREWORD BY
ANNIE BESANT
" From the unreal lead us to the Real,
From dn~kttessl end us to Light,
FI-OWdLe ath lend to Intmot'tnlity."
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LONDON :
" MODERN ASTROLOGY " OFFICE,
40, IMPERIAL BUILDINGS, LUDCATE CIRCUS, E.C. 4.
THET RADESU PPLIEIDY :
L. N. FOWLER & CO., 7, IMPERIAI, ARCADE, E.C.

CONTENTS.
PAGE
FOREWOR: DA s APPRECIATIO..N. .. . 7
... .. . ...
ALANL EO'SF AITH
CHAP. I. PARENTAGAEN D EARLYL IFE
, 11. EARLYD AYSIS ASTROLOGY. ..
,, 111. ~~ARRIAGAES D HOMEL IFE ...
,, IV. THEP ASSINGOF ALANL EO ...
,, V. SOME RE~IISISCENCES ...
,, VI. RESIINISCESCAESSD APPRECIATIOSS

FOREWORD
AN APPRECIATION
IT was my good fortune to know Alan Leo
for very many years, to me he was first of all
a devoted student of the Divine JVisdom, that
Wisdom which has come down to us through
a succession of Sages, forming in all a golden
thread interwoven in the cord of huinaii
evolution, an unbroken thread on which are
strung the religions of the world living and
dead. To that Divine \Visdoin, reproclaimed
in our own days under its old Greek name
Theosophia, Theosophy, he was ever absolutely
loyal, un~vaveringlyb rave in its defence, ever
eager to learn, willing to teach. It was the
Lamp of his life, guiding him through Inally
hard and thorny ways ; he threw its light on
problems that seemed insoluble and they were
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solved ; no trouble could dim its glow, no
attack could shake his faith for he had tried it
and proved it, and he knew that in which he
had believed by the personal knowledge of his
own experience.
Then I knew him as a singularly able well-
balanced and intuitive Astrologer ; his love
for this ancient and much maligned science
was only second to his love for Theosophy,
and indeed they were so interwoven in his
thought, they so permeated his life, that one
can scarcely speak of first and second. Indeed
Astrology is a Department of the Divine
Wisdom, as li~lowili n Chaldea and all ancient
lands. I-Ie was one of the foremost in raisin&
Astrology from fortune-telling to a scientific
forecasting of conditions, a delineation of
tendencies in a character, a map of the
personal nature, and a wide outloolc on coming
evolution. He ever bore in mind not oilly
the circumstances through which the individual
would pass, but the re-action of the individual
on the circumstai~ces, remoulding and re-
shaping them; a11d he remembered that
previous remouldiilgs and reshapings by the
LIFE AND ITTORE; OF ALAN LEO I_
spiritualised orgallism during its present life
would introduce far-reaching changes into the
life map drawn from the horoscope at birth.
He appreciated fully the bearing on the
happenings of the future of the pregnant hint
('The wise man rules his stars," and the
sequential effect of his previous rulings on
those future happenings. He realised that as
the power of the Spirit, the Inner Ruler
Immortal, passed in ever increasing measure
out of latency in potency, so did the future
become more and more inscrutable by means
of ordinary rules, since the emergent new
forces brought about their necessary results
in fashions well nigh incalculable by most
Astrologers.
Outside these great studies 1vhic11 formed
his life, Alan Leo was singularly patient,
tolerant and forbearing, unchanging in his
loyalty to his friends, and ever the faithful
servant of Duty. Of his utter devotion to
the Great Beings who are the Guardians of
Humaility and the Teachers of the individual
Souls who aspire to learn that they may
become the helpers of the inen and \vomen
arc
Th. e silent devotion in the Temple founmts
be$; t expression in a life of toil and sacrifice
for human service and his work will ever be
his best memorial.
ANNIEB ESANT.
ALAN LEO'S FAITH
"
I AM convinced that the problem of the
inequalities of the human race can only be
successfully solved by a knowledge of
Astrology.
" I believe that the Principle which gives
life dwells in us and without us comes from the
Supreme Intelligence through the Rays of the
Sun, and I am convinced that this life is
affected or modified every four minutes in
time by the diurnal revolution of the Earth,
also by the annual motion of the Earth round
the Sun, affecting the Changes of Season and
men's individual natures.
" I believe the Soul of Humanity is
immortal or perpetual; and I am convinced
that each individual soul or mind is symbolised
by the Moon in its ebb and flo~v,a nd various
phases, also by its relation to the Planetary
Spheres of Influence ; and as the Moon affects
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