IN the preceding pages, such events as effect the world
generally I have been discussed in priority; because they are
operated by certain principal and paramount causes, .which are,
at the same time, predominant over particular and minor events
applicable only to the separate properties and natural
peculiarities of individuals. The foreknowledge of these
particular events is called Genethlialogy, or the science of
Nativities. It must be remembered that the causation, by which
all effects, whether general or particular, are produced and
foreknown, is essentially one and the same; for the motions of
the planets, and of the Sun and Moon, present the operative
causation of events which happen to any individual, as well as
of those which happen generally; and the foreknowledge of both
may be obtained by the several creatures and substances,
subjected to the influence of the heavenly bodies, and by due
attention to the changes produced in those natures, by the
configurations displayed in the Ambient by the planetar