In a tone of satisfaction he spoke of his vast labours, of the six months a horoscope required, of the surprise of laymen when he declared that such work was not paid for by the price he asked, five hundred francs.
"But you see I cannot give my science for nothing," he said.

"And now people doubt astrology, which was revered in antiquity.

Also in the Middle Ages, when it was almost sacred.

For instance, messieurs, look at the portal of Notre Dame.

The three doors which archeologists--not initiated into the symbolism of Christianity and the occult--designate by the names of the door of Judgment, the door of the Virgin, and the door of Saint Marcel or Saint Anne, really represent Mysticism, Astrology, and Alchemy, the three great sciences of the Middle Ages.
Today you find people who say, 'Are you quite sure that the stars have an influence on the destiny of man ?' But, messieurs, without entering here into details reserved for the adept, in what way is this spiritual influence stranger than that corporal influence which certain planets, the moon, for example, exercise on the organs of men and women?
"You are a physician, Monsieur Des Hermies, and you are not unaware that the doctors Gillespin, Jackson, and Balfour, of Jamaica, have established the influence of the constellations on human health in the West Indies.