Alan Leo's Dictionary of Astrology
Alan Leo's Dictionary of Astrology In 1917 at the height of his fame, Alan Leo was charged with fortune-telling, which was illegal, and taken to court. But the charges brought in 1917 stuck. He had…
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Alan Leo's Dictionary of Astrology
In 1917 at the height of his fame, Alan Leo was charged with fortune-telling, which was illegal, and taken to court. But the charges brought in 1917 stuck. He had been tried on similar charges in 1914, which had been dismissed.
As winning on appeal seemed unlikely, Leo paid the fine and went to Cornwall for a rest, where on 30 August, 1917, he unexpectedly died of a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 57. Leo was given a hefty fine. His friends blamed it on the strain of the court proceedings.
At the time of his death, this Dictionary was one of Leo's unfinished projects. Installments of the Dictionary had appeared in Leo's monthly magazine, Modern Astrology, up to the end of the article "Horoscope" (pgs. 130-136). That the project was long-standing is hinted by the article on Hindu Astrology (pgs.
76-101), written by Sepharial some years before and which Leo had presumably purloined. More