This book may differ in a few instances from other books which deal  with the science of diagnosis from the planets.  The authors of this volume, how-ever,  have had opportunities such as few other writers on this subject have had.   The Rosicrucian Fellowship,  of which they were the founders,  has  a very  successful healing department.   A description of the method  used  in this department may be found on page 440.   Of the thousands of patients who have  written to us for healing since the department started,  each one  has sent in data describing the disease from which he suffered, its symptoms and peculiarities,  the doctor's diagnosis,  etc.  This information was in every case carefully compared with the patient's horoscope, and a  detailed  study made of  both.   The most striking as well as typical cases  were  used  as monthly  lessons  for the esoteric students of the Fellowship. From  these lessons we have chosen the best to print in this book.   At no time have  we diagnosed direct to the patient.   His horoscope,  however,  has given us  a wonderful key to the disease from which he was suffering and its causes, and it has been used as a guide in giving advice regarding diet, exercise, envi-ronment, and similar matters.

   We  do not claim that this book is the last word on the subject,  neither do  we claim that it is infallible. The knowledge which we have  gained  by years of unceasing labor we are sharing with the world.   We give it freely, and if others can add to it, we shall rejoice.

                                                     --Augusta Foss Heindel.

   Astro-diagnosis is the science and art of obtaining scientific  knowledge regarding  disease and its causes as shown by the planets,  as well  as  the means of overcoming it.  This new science of diagnosis and healing is slowly permeating the medical world.   It is a science which will not set aside the old  school  of medicine and diagnosis,  but it is an addition  to  the  old school   The latter,  we feel,  will in time accept this newer  method.   At present  many physicians are willing to cooperate with the newer schools  of osteopathy,  nature-cure,  chiropractic, etc., and these open-minded men are ready to accept a more advanced method of diagnosis when it has been  demon-

strated to them as reliable.

   Depending entirely upon outward symptoms in locating disease and  relying wholly  upon the action of medicine have cost millions of lives in the  ages past.   But man is now becoming too enlightened,  too broadminded  to stick stubbornly  to old methods which have been proved by many mistakes,  by  the sacrifice  of many lives,  to be inadequate. Medical science with its  im-proved instruments,  the X-ray, iri-diagnosis, blood tests,  etc.,  has made great strides toward better methods of diagnosis.   But the time is not  far hence when it will be generally conceded that to know in advance where human

   Disease  may be classed under two heads,  latent and active.   "Symptoms" give  indication  of disease which is in process of  materializing.   Latent tendencies  to disease are shown by the planetary afflictions in  the  horo-scope of birth.  In some instances these tendencies may remain latent during the entire life because the native has lived in such a manner that no strain was  put on the body which would give the planets a chance to develop  their latent  weakness.   If there is a weak link in a chain but no strain is  put upon it,  the chain will remain whole.  So in the case of planetary  afflic-tions, they too may remain latent.  But let the native abuse his body and at once these weak spots will appear.   This gives us the second class of  dis-ease,  the active type.   When the planetary aspects have been stirred  into action and disease has appeared, the progressed planetary positions give the diagnostician the key to it.

   When the medical  men,  the  scientists,  the  occult scientists, and the astrologers have reached a friendly understanding,  when the budding discov-eries  and the broader thoughts of man are no longer at variance  with  each other,  then humanity will know that the terrors and the pain of the operat-ing  room are things of the past.   Then buoyant health will be  universally enjoyed, for mankind will be taught how to live in order to avoid suffering.

The  doctors will be just as anxious to keep people well as they now are  to help them to recover from disease.   The time is not far hence,  we believe, when the government will feel the necessity of paying doctors a yearly  sal-ary to teach the people how to avoid the pitfalls which lead to disease.