After Centuries of Debate, Astrology Is BiggerThan Ev This Book Tells Why. John Anthony West and Jan Gerhard Toonder ' The Case The Case Astrology for John Anthony West and Jan Gerhard Toonder COWARD-McCANN, Inc. New York SAN BRUNO PUBLIC LIBRARY. SAN BRUNO. CKOL Copyright © 1970 by John Anthony West and Jan Gerhard Toonder First American Edition 1970 All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be repro- duced in any form without permission in writing from the Publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-104692 Printed in the United States of America 1 Contents Introduction 13 Part One History and Technique 17 1 Dreams the Chaldeans Never Dreamed 19 2 The WhoreofBabylon SheSeduces Greece; : She Corrupts Rome 54 Foolish Daughter Carries On 76 3 4 Sleeping Beauty Awakes 99 Part Two Objections 115 1 The Queen of Humbug 117 2 Queen's Counsel 13 Part Three The Evidence 145 Part Four The Future and Significance of Astrology 199 Appendix 1 251 Appendix 2 257 Notes 260 Bibliography 275 Index 279 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/caseforastrologyOOwest Illustrations follow page 144 : 5 Acknowledgements The authors and publishers would like to thank the following FOR the figures - Oxford Illustrators Limited. Mile Lucie Lamy. Figs. 9 and 10 adapted from those in Le Miracle Egyptien by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Flammarion, 1963. M. Gauquelin. Figs. 12 and 13 adapted from those in Les Hommes et lesAstres, Denoel, i960. TheAstrological Journal. Figs. 14 and 1 adapted from those in The Scientific Point in Astrology A New : Discovery' by John M. Addey, Vol. Ill, No. 2, March 1961. for THE plates - Radio Times Hulton Picture Library. Plates 1, 11, 12 and 13. Mile Lucie Lamy and Editions Caracteres. Plates 2, 4 and 6 originally reproduced in Le Temple de VHomme, Vol. II, by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, 1958. Mile Lucie Lamy and Le Caire. Plates and originally reproduced in Le Temple dans 3 5 rHomme, by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, 1948. A. Burgess and B. Sandkiihler. Plates 7 and 8. Sam Siegel, Metropolitan Photo Ser- viceInc. Plate9. C. Bernstein, Black StarPublishing Co. Plate 10.