I don't mean to be following you around and snapping at your heels, but could you please let us know where Mr. Zoller wrote that? It's useful (and necessary) information.
You betcha!
http://www.new-library.com/zoller/featu ... wage.shtml
The biographical information below is from this site:
http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/eo ... 00811.html
Luke Dennis Broughton, the leading astrologer in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century, was born April 20, 1828, in Leeds, England, and grew up in an astrologically-oriented family. His grandfather had become a devotee of the stars after reading the Complete Herbal, a medical astrology text by Nicolas Culpepper and one of the few astrological texts to have survived the combined attack of Protestantism and the Enlightenment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The elder Broughton inspired interest in astrology in his physician son and through him to Luke Broughton and his brothers. Luke Broughton's older brother Mark became the leader of an astrological society in England and then moved to the United States to begin Broughton's Monthly Horoscope in 1849.
Luke Broughton began studying astrology during his teen years, and he moved to the United States in the early 1840s to study natural medicine at the Eclectic Medical College in Philadelphia. He began a public career in 1860 when he revived his brother's periodical as Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal (1860-69). After anti-astrology laws were passed in Philadelphia, he moved his medical office to New York City in 1863, his home for the rest of his life. He emphasized astrological medicine and in 1866 began to teach astrology. His initial teaching efforts became the foundation upon which the nation's major astrological center would be built. He developed a distributorship of astrological literature, the great majority of which came from England.
As astrology grew and became the center of renewed controversy, Broughton assumed the dual role of astrology's defender from its enemies and protector from incompetent astrologers. He wrote and at times appeared as a witness in court on astrology's behalf. He also attacked people such as Hiram Butler, Eleanor Kirk, and C. W. Roback, astrologers who, he felt, had insufficient training for their work. At the time of his death in 1898, he left his practice to his daughter, who carried on his work and saw to the publication of his most substantive book, The Elements of Astrology (1898).
Broughton's obituary (September 24, 1899) from the New York Times:
Dr. Luke D. Broughton, homeopathic physician and astrologer, and for many years President of the Astrological Society of America, died on Friday at his residence, at 62 South Washington Square. He was born April 20, 1828, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and his father and ancestors were all astrologers. He came to this country when young and settled in Philadelphia, where he studied medicine and took his degree. While he did not practice astrology as a profession, he combined astrology with medicine, cast his own horoscope, and the horoscopes of his wife and children and of many prominent men. He died on the day he said he would. He predicted that his eldest son would not survive the year, which happened, and it was on his advice that the young man did not marry. His son John said yesterday that his father had cast the horoscopes of both Grover Cleveland and President McKinley and predicted the election first of the one and then of the other. Many public men, he continued, consulted his father as to whether they should accept nominations or undertake great enterprises and were guided by his advice. He also said that his father was a firm believer in fate, and that the position of the planets and sun at the hour of a person's birth settled his destiny so that nothing could change it. Dr. Broughton donated a library of 14,090 volumes of general reading and had 300 volumes on astrology, many of which were very old and rare. When he came to New York and began lecturing on astrology he encountered great opposition from those who did not believe in that science. He leaves three sons and one daughter. The funeral services will be held at the house this evening.
I recall having read somewhere that Broughton was a member of the Theosophical Society, but there is scant mention of it in his book
Elements of Astrology, and no mention at all of karma, rebirth, or reincarnation. Llewellyn George was a Theosophist, and it shows in his writings. He wrote, for example, that the sign on the ascendant in this life was the Sun sign in the previous life.
