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NOTES ON THE THIRD DISCOURSE
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in tempeVament, one finds
constantly Neptune and the Moon predominant
in the horoscope. But it is of course impossible to suppose
( that the Arabian astrologers had any clue to the planet Neptune. The<
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of Fortune is merely the translation Of the Latin Pars Fortunae.
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I cannot account for the origin of the idea, which seems quite
fantastic.... o I
"The Ascendant is the degree rising "at birth; i.e., at sunrise the sun
would be on the ascendant. The '
Lord of the Ascendant '
is the planet
that rules the ascending sign of the Zodiac. The two most important
positions in the horoscope are the ascendant and the mid-heaven, and
any planets here are considered more powerful than any others. 1 he
Ascendant has special relation to the individual, and the mid-heaven to
the fortune."
(Extract from third letter.}
"I am sorry do have kept your proofs so long, but I have been
a good deal away from the office lately, and consequently my work has
got into arrears. c
" With regard to the 'Part of the Unseen,' this is evidently something
kindred in nature to the '
Part of Fortune,' and as the Part of Fortune
{pars fortunae} is always so called by astrologers, I think it would be
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well to use the expression Part '
and not '
Share.' I have not yet
discovered what the 'Part of the Unseen' is. actually It obviously
cannot be the opposite position to that of the 'Part of Fortune,' as
I see that in one instance cited
tion on the Ascendant."
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in your proofs the two are in conjunc-
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Note XXV. 'Umar-i-Khayyam.
(Text, pp. 63-4, 65; Persian notes, pp. 209-228.)
1 Abu'1-Fath 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyami, commonly
called 'Umar (or 'Omar) Khayyam, is so much more celebrated in
the West, especially in England aud America, than in the East that
Mirza Muhammad has, for the benefit of his own countrymen, for whom
he is primarily writing, added a very long note on l
his biography, 'the
Sources of our information about him, and the history of the "Omar
Khayyam Club" founded in London in his honour in 1892. The
information contained in this note is mainly derived from P.rofessor
Valentin Zhukovski's masterly article on the "Wandering Quatrains" 01
'Umar-i-Khayyam, which appeared in the Festschrift published in 1897 at
St Petersburg in honour of the late Baron Victor Ro'sen,'by eleven of his
pupils, and entitled, in allusion to his Christiah name, al-Muzaffariyya.
This article, written in Russian, was translated by Sir E. Deni^on Ross
and published in the J.R. A. S. for 1898 (vol. xxx, pp. 349-366), andreproduced
in its essentials by him in Methuen's edition of FitzGerald's
Quatrains, and by me in vol. ii of my Literary History of Persia,
It is therefore sufficient to summarize here the information
pp. 246-9.
which can be found in greater detail in those places.
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