ONE PENNY 0 NL EELS BN WHY THE WAR WILL END IN —1917--—- BY SEPHARIALTHE OLD FEUD. IN review of what has already transpired since the outbreak of the Armageddon, it must be obvious to many that most of our statesmen, and even those who claim some prescience of mundane affairs, have failed to-foresee its course and duration, and even now are doubtful as to its issue. They have, in fact, failed to find its true place and purpose in human history. These great conflicts, which from time to time have spread death and devastation over wide areas, are nothing but the climaxes of slumbering animosities which had their beginnings in Family feuds far back in the ages, which found constant outlet in the Tribal Wars, and assumed portentous phases in the great International Warfare of the past. Deep down in the roots of human evolution and development we shall find two distinct branches pushing out as rival representatives of human polity. They are radically inspired by two distinct characteristics. One is animated by the belief that “Might is the only Right,” and is responsible for all that vandalism, rapine, plunder, and devastation that the weaker nations have continually suffered at the hands of their stronger and less scrupulous compeers and neighbours, The other branch of the human family is that which is animated by the belief that “‘ Right is the final Might,” and to which all lovers of peace and justice, truth and equity, have looked for shelter and comfort. The Forecast. There are prophecies that clearly point to this great and final conflict of the two forces, but people4 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. have failed to recognise that they are in process of fulfilment. The Powers of Light, the upholders of Faith, Hope and Charity, the lovers of Truth and Justice, are seen in deadly warfare with the Powers of Darkness, those who delight in Envy, Hatred, Malice, and all Uncharitableness. They are re- spectively referred to as the “Kings of the North” and ‘‘the South,” and Daniel the prophet has figured them as the Medes and Persians in war against the Greeks, these being the typical images of the two forces existing in his day. The spirit of the Persian autocracy became manifest in the Schwabians and Prutzi, the ancestral root of modern Prussian Despot- ism. The Greek spirit animates the French Empire, which had its root in Charlemagne, and it will extend its influence to the year 2089. The same conflict, under different imagery, is depicted by John of Patmos in the Apocalypse, where the “ War in Heaven” is the precursor of that Arma- geddon which we now are passing through in the world, In this conflict Michael and his angels are seen to vanquish the Dragon, outnumbering his forces by two to one, for the Dragon drew only “a third part of the stars of heavenas a following.” The stars are here the symbols of human souls. But apart from these Biblical references to the Armageddon, which was to take place after the ful- filling of the “times of the Gentiles,” so that Jeru- salem, which has been under the foot of Turkey for so many centuries, should be restored to the Jews, there are signs in the Sun and the Moon and Stars. Europe Clear of Turks in 1921. The Crescent of the Turkish Empire is already waning to extinction and disappears in 1921, when the Russians under Michael shall drive the Turks out of Europe, and the Powers shall restore Jeru-WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. 5 salem to its hereditary owners. The new Jewish zgis will be developed some seven years later, and 1928 will see its restoration well on the way to completion. At that time we may “look up, for our redemption draweth nigh.”” The Kaiser’s Sudden Death Predicted. How do we know these things for true? We know them by the same signs as those from which this great War of the Nations was conspicuously predicted. In the ‘‘ Manual of Astrology ” (1896),* there occur these words:— “The Emperor of Germany has a most fateful horoscope, and during his reign the German Empire will suffer reversals of which hitherto it has had no shadow of experience. The destiny of Kaiser Wil- helm is such that he will lose nearly the whole of his possessions and . . . he will be denuded of his power among the nations. It is not improbable that his territory will pass into the hands of France and Russia. These at least are the powers that will contend for possession of the Empire which the Kaiser will be powerless to retain. The Kaiser will die suddenly and the heart will be the seat of the fatal affection. Nothing more adverse than this horoscope of the Kaiser, except perhaps that of the Sultan of Turkey, is to be found among the rulers of Europe.” Abdul the Damned. It will be remembered, no doubt, that the then reigning Sultan of Turkey, rightly named “ Abdul the Damned,” was deposed and exiled, and was lat- terly reported as continuing in great indigence. The Fateful Year. But coming close to the period of the outbreak of the War we have the following singular predictions * London: Robert Hayes, 61 Fleet Street. 10s. 6d. net6 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 10917. in the current issue of “The Green Book of Prophe- cies” for 1914, written and printed long before there was the slightest indication of any such world catas- trophe, and already in the hands of the people, when it was officially announced that “Never in the fiscal history of our country was there a more suitable opportunity of reducing our expenditure on the Army and Navy.” So much for political prescience! The prophecy is as follows :-— July, 1914.—" There are signs of a sharp agitation in the commercial world. Financial strain is shown, and there is a tendency to panic on the markets. Disbursements on further munitions of war will give rise to alarm in commercial centres. The develop- ment of political affairs at this time is not reassuring, and about the 25th the indications tend to a crisis of an acute nature, There will be war-talk throughout the country, and the trade and financial interests of the nation will suffer. It is greatly to be hoped, however, that France will be in a position to confirm the entente cordiale by a timely mediation. The foot may be in the wrong boot, however, and it behoves the Government to be prepared for the worst, while striving for the best.” The Austro-Hungarian Note to Serbia was issued on July 23rd, 1914, and War declared on July 28th. August, 1914.—"' The atmosphere is highly charged with explosives which are in danger of sudden ignition. About the 3rd our diplomatic relations will be severely strained. The indications point to a financial panic, and popular feeling will be at high tension. ‘There will be much war-talk. . . . The Balkan concert will now be disturbed, and affairs tend to a crisis in Austria.” It was on the 3rd of August that our Declaration of War broke off all diplomatic relations with Germany.WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. 7 It will thus be seen that there were good and sufficient reasons for predicting war; and when it is remembered that these predictions were written in the spring of 1913, and published in the summer of that year, it will be obvious that for political pre- science and intelligent anticipation the Science of the Stars is infinitely to be preferred to the professed policy of incompetence summed up in the words— “Wait and see!” Reasons for Prediction. The fate of nations is brought into a focus and represented for the time being by the horoscopes of their ruling sovereigns. In the case of Germany we have a most sinister horoscope, which was struck at the birth of Kaiser Wilhelm on 27th January, 1859, at 3 o'clock (Berlin time). Cancer, the ruling sign of the Germanic people, was rising, and the Moon, Ruler of the horoscope, was in the lowest part of the heavens and in the sign of the Dragon (Scorpio), which is the sign of its fall. Moreover, it was in direct opposition to Uranus, the planet of disruption. The Sun, natural significator of worldly empire, was in the eighth division of the heavens (the place of loss and undoing, of death and decay), and in Aquarius, the sign of its fall. It was directly opposed by Saturn (privation) in the second division of the heavens (the place of possessions), and Saturn was also in the sign of its fall. In addition, the malefic planets, Mars and Neptune, occupied the Midheaven of the horoscope. Surely the Kaiser was taken up into a high mountain and shown all the kingdoms of the world! Alas for the ambition of Lucifer! ‘This uncrowned Emperor of Germany, the crowned Kaiser of Prussia, was destined to fall headlong even while he worshipped. ‘The Black Eagle fell to the rank of common Vulture!8 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. The Emperor of Austria. ‘That other vulture, whose reign has been the longest and most tragic of all among modern rulers, he too must fall, but not to any earthly grade. For his days are few, and the signal of his end is that Eclipse of the Sun which happened on the 21st August, 1914, and which fell on the places of the Sun, Moon, and Saturn in his horoscope of birth. And when the story of his life comes to be written, it will be found a sordid one indeed, a record of a proud, relentless heart, an overbearing and tyrannical will, a loveless life, filled with fruitless ambitions, dark treacheries and deeds too foul to couple with the name of Emperor. Let him pass. The Writing on the Wall. Mene Tekel is written on the walls of the Hohen- zollern Palace. For now, at this period of the World’s history, the ruling sign of Germany has passed into the sign of the Scales, and Saturn, the god of Time, weighs heavily against it. Go back as far as you may into the record of this tyrannical Prussian people, and you will find nothing but rapine and lust and devastation. How else came they into Prussia from Schwaben but by the slaughter of innocent people of Brandenburg? How else but by the murdering of priests and ransacking of holy places? And this you will find true by the testi- mony of Father Arminius, the Abbot of Lehnin,* who suffered at their hands, and wrote the doom of these Wolves from Suabia in a luminous prophecy about the year 1240, in which, by inference, the present monarch is spoken of as ‘‘the last of his line.” But this will be only for a time, for it is said, ‘‘The Shepherd will regain his flock and Brandenburg her * “The Prophecy of Father Arminius,” 7d. net, by post only. London: Robert Hayes, 61, Fleet Street, B.C.WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. 9 Kings.” All too clearly, however, the judgment of Despotism and World-lust is pronounced. It has been weighed in the Balance and the judgment is Upharsin: Thou art Wanting! Inadequate, futile, purposeless, because founded upon vanity and upheld by merely human authority! The Prince of this World cannot continue long, but while he has yet power in the earth the warning should be read and pondered. ‘‘Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! for the devil is come down among you having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time !” How Long? This persecution is to last for three and a half years, or, as it is said: ‘‘a time, times and a half time.” For just as the times of the Gentiles lasted for 1260 years, or three and a half times three hundred and sixty years, so this climax of Armaged- don is to last for three and a half times three hundred and sixty days. The “witnesses” lay about the streets for three and a half days, which means three and a half years, and ‘power was given unto the Beast to continue for forty and two months,” which is the same period. Now it happens that according to the cycle of years from which Daniel prophesied the Fall of Babylon, the world is now under the dominion of the Sun, whose reign extends to the year 2089. And under this rule Mars comes into conjunction with Saturn in the sign Gemini in the year 1914. Among the sons of Israel this sign answers to Simeon and Levi, of whom it was said: ‘‘Simeon and Levi are a twin. Instruments of cruelty are in their hands.” It pre- figured the great slaughter of the innocent in the name of Ignorance and its twin brother Fanaticism, which from old times have wrought evil to the race,10 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. and which, in these latter days, have ripened through Knowledge and Devotion into the fair sons of Science and Religion. By slow and painful evolution they have become what they are, true champions of a liberated humanity. This modern Prussian Kultur is a usurper and a thief. It has no place in Christendom. And its end is near. The Great War Ended. Three and a half years from the outbreak of Armageddon will bring us to the end of the first stage, But by what years of tireless effort, of pain and suffering both of body and soul! For even as 1914 is known as the year of the Great War, so 1915 is that of the Dominion of the Waters, and 1916 is the Year of the Flaming Sword, and in this year there will be fires and fevers greater than any that have been known in the world, and it is followed by the Year of Famine and Pestilence, and finally by the Year of Peace. For in 1918, about the time of the vernal equinox, Venus sheds her light upon the Scales, and they are found to be at rest! And after this the prophecy of Boudica must be fulfilled in that sudden and great destruction which shall fall on the Gate of the Sun. The secret pact with Prussia will not avail. Babylon the Great is fallen! The Purpose of the War. First and foremost of the means to that great ministry is the task of destroying once and for ever the recourse of Despots to the arbitraments of war. In the modern Prussian, as in the ancient Persian regime, Militarism, as the be-all and end-all of a soulless “ Kultur,” an affrighted world beholds the incarnation of all those diabolical forces which, from time immemorial, have militated against the welfare of the race. More, they have set themselves againstWHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. u the Christ who proclaimed for “peace on earth and goodwill towards man.” It is our task to root them out—with the sword, since they have taken to the sword—and send them to the burning, like the noxious weeds that they are. At the present moment we are employing all the resources of science, all the energy of the people, and all the power of our great commercial life, throwing into the melting-pot all the accumulated wealth of a century of years, with one object in view—to crush the head of this Hydra who has come up out of the sea. “And I looked, and behold, a beast came up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns, and on the horns were ten crowns, and upon his heads the names of blasphemy.” There have been seven ruling Houses over Germany including this last of Hohenzollern, and there are ten States ruled over by Princes. This is the modern mark of the Beast. History repeats itself, and the world moves in great cycles towards its eventual climax. The legend of St. George and the Dragon is called into remembrance. It is the story of the old feud between the powers of Light and Darkness, of Spirituality and Materiality, of Humanism and Diabolism. Finally, we have to regard this great conflict as a Spiritual War, and for the simple reason that all men, embodied or disembodied, are spirits, and spirits are drawn together into nations, not by any disposition of matter, but by spiritual affinity or election. Men are what they are because of what they have been. In this Armageddon of the nations, the Powers of Evil have been let loose upon the world so that the ‘‘ War in Heaven,” which was lost to them, may be continued in this nether region. Great Revolutions Predicted. The war will be practically finished in August, 1917, the failing power of the adversary being con-12 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. spicuous as early as July, 1916, the final scenes will be enacted in April, 1918, and the downfall of the Kaiser and his satraps completed. The great campaign against Turkey will begin in 1919, and will be finished in 1921. In 1922 Austria will be reconstituted, but only after a violent internal con- flict. About the same time Japan will be fiercely stirred to new efforts and extraordinary develop- ments. The reign of the Mikado will tremble in the balance. There has ever been danger in putting new wine into old bottles. Reforms will be followed by insurrections, and these by wars, many evils being experienced between 1923 and 1925. In 1927 the Franco-Russian Alliance is disturbed, and in the same year the Great Reformation takes place in the British Constitution. This will be ratified in 1928, the year of the Great Awakening. ‘This is the year, also, of Spain’s great unrest, which will last for two years, being most acute in the ninth month of the first year and the last month of the second year, the conspiracy arising out of the Alphonsine de- parture in 1920. These things serve only to mark the march of time, and have no great part in the political and social climax to which the world is tending. And not only will the social and political world be then affected, but all the religious world will be finally involved in the grand reformation which in the years 1983 and 1984 will be inaugurated by the Heads of the Churches, Before this the Roman Church will have been deposed and restored again, and the Holy See removed from Rome and reinvested, which happens soon after the conclusion of the Great War. Two Other Wars at Hand. So, it will be seen, there are many days of tribu- lation through which the race generally must passWHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. 13 towards the place of Peace. But, so far as Europe is concerned, I see only two great and serious con- flicts athand. The first, 1921, is that which concerns Turkey in Europe, and the second, 1931, that of the Prussian reaction. That vain and unprofitable scion of the House of Hohenzollern, who has several times been rejected by his father and contemned by the people, will place himself at the head of a political party and thereby seek once again to restore the fortunes of his House, so recently, and to all appearance, irredeem- ably shattered in the Great War. He will have his supporters, and they will inaugurate a revival of all those arts of political chicanery and open up again those terrors of war which people had believed could never occur again. These things take place after the ending of the Great War against Prussia and within fourteen years from the signing of the Peace of Berlin. London's Danger Signal. Enough has here been said to show that astrono- mical and inspired prophecy are in accord with regard to the times through which we are passing and those that are yet in futuro, There is, however, one other word of warning to which special attention should be given. In January, 1901, there was a conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign Capricorn, from which the Great War was predicted by the fact of Mars coming to the opposition of the Ascendant of London between 1914and 1917, At this time the Midheaven was in 13 Aquarius. In February, 1916, there is an eclipse of the Sun in this degree of the zodiac, and at the end of February the planet Mars will be in direct opposition to the place of that Eclipse on the meridian of London, Let the Capital, therefore, look to its defences during the latter part of February and the beginning of March, and again about the middle of14 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. April, for it is extremely probable that an organized incendiary attack will be made in force upon the City. German Surrender in August, 1917. We may look forward with confidence, however, to the ultimate victory of the Allied Forces and a satisfactory termination to this great struggle at the time appointed. ‘The enemy will be reduced to a surrender in August, 1917, and Peace conditions will follow international parleys in the course of a further six months, Nemesis will wait upon the earthly representative of the Arch-enemy in April, 1918, and give him a safe conduct into that obscurity which, to one who has attempted such great heights, must indeed be a hell of debasement and perdition. The Readjustment. We are now in the cycle of Mars in the culminat- ing sign of worldly ambition, Capricorn, but to this there will succeed a full Moon that is illumined in the sign Aquarius, whose influence will come into play fromthe year 1945. ‘The Aquarian Age of a liberated humanity upon which the world then enters will be marked by a beneficent Communism, to which every man and woman will bring their competence, that all may go into the melting-pot and be refined, and divided again, so that all may eat and be filled. Everything will be devoted to the service of the race. Anew world will require the formulation of a new religion. It will find its embodiment in a per- fected Humanism. But these things are reserved for the New Age, which cannot begin. until after the Great Devastation and the Great Peace, following after an interval upon the conclusion of the Great War. For let no man think that there shall be no more war. Other Powers will arise in the likeness of those that have departed and will be filled withWHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. 15 worldly ambitions, and the remnant of those that remain after the first War will be judged according to their works. Thus there will be warfare in the East during the years when Turkey shall be driven out of Europe in 1921, and other great assaults will take place in the years between 1962 and 1965, and between 1981 and 1985, until we come to the great climacteric, which lasts from 1991 to 1997, and which ensanguines the whole of the East. For the great dream of the prophets and the seers of the blessed Millenium will not come in upon the world until the year 2440, for the Sun must pass its days of tropic heat and Saturn bring its years of frigid need before the Star of Peace can rise upon the world and Justice be finally established among men. The Coming Race. That cryptic, and at the same time luminous, writer of prophecies, Michael Nostradamus, wrote in the year 1554, that Great Empire to the English arms shall be In fullest force Three Hundred years and more; Her armies vast shall pass by land and sea ; ‘While discontented Spain is vexed and sore. Accordingly it has come to pass that in proportion as the British Empire has increased, that of Spain, once the dominant Power in Europe, has as surely diminished. From the same signs | know, and here affirm, that the Anglo-Saxon race will be the para- mount Power for good in the world during the next sixteen hundred years, for by no other means than the complete universality of its influence can the promise of God to man be fulfilled. Who and where are they who should be for number as the stars of heaven, and for multitude as the sand? Who are the sons of Israel of whom it was said: “Thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread16 WHY THE WAR WILL END IN 1917. abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south, and in thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed”? You cannot say this of the sons of Judah or the modern Jews, but you can say it, and say it only, of the British and their world-wide extension in the Anglo- Saxon race. “A great people, glorying in more possession and honour than any other people of Earth. Their empire covers a fourth of this planet, its populations are over a fourth of its inhabitants, its trade is a third of the whole trade of Earth.” If the Messenger from Mars can report thus of Great Britain alone, how much more can he extol the Anglo-Saxon race, of which it is but a part? If we regard as Anglo-Saxon only those peoples whose native tongue is English, it will be found that, with its root in Great Britain, the ramifications of this vast race extend all over the world, to the north and south, to the east and west, and that its individual units are like the stars of heaven or the grains of dust for number. “ In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” To the Anglo-Saxon, then, has the work of the great Humanism of the future been committed. Fearless and implacable in War, matchless in the Arts of Peace, Britannia and her sons may lift up their heads among the nations, conscious of the great trust that has been imposed upon them by Almighty God.