CHAPTER III.
An Astronomical Measure.
WHAT IS CHANCE? THE "JOKER" AND ITS VALUE. THE SOLAR YEAR.
HANCE is defined as accident, or "to happen without assignable cause." For thousands of years men supposed that the elements combined in chance proportions, and they never dreamed that chemistry was an exact science. The stars of heaven were supposed to move about or stand still (?) as "chance" directed. But it is now known that no such thing exists as chance, at least in regard to the majority of things, and we know that nothing comes by chance.
A true mystic recognizes this at a glance. Those who are not mystics have no use for this book, or the "religion of the stars."
THE JESTER OR JOKER.
A strange fact has been found out by the mystic brotherhood within a few months regarding the "Joker," as it is called.
