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6 SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY has proved that religion knows not whereof it speaks when it asserts that there are seven planets in the solar system. The Mystic, however, points to Bode’s Law as vindicating his assertion that Neptune does not really belong to our solar system.

The law is this: If we write a series of 4’s, add 3 to the second, 6 to the third, 12 to the fourth, etc., doubling the amount added each time, the resulting series of numbers is a very close approximation to the relative distances of the planets from the Sun with the exception of Neptune. Thus, to illustrate:

If we divide this series by 10 we get 1 for the distance of the earth from the Sun and the other numbers then represent the distances of the other planets in terms of the earth’s distance. The closeness with which this simple law gives the distance is shown as follows, the column headed “Bode” being the distances according to this law, while the column headed “Distance” gives the correct values in terms of the earth’s distances.