MANY attempts have been made to bring the study of ASTROLOGY within the reach of all persons endowed with a thinking mind, but owing to the magnitude of the subject and the great difficulty of reducing a metaphysical science into terms of natural philosophy, the object has hitherto been only partly achieved. In the present work a final attempt is made by the author to reach the multitude of earnest and thoughtful searchers after truth, whose numbers are day by day increasing; more especially to reach those who wish to have some practical demonstration of the widespread belief that a wise ruler is behind all manifestation of life, guiding and influencing humanity towards a definite end, that purpose being perfection-the Millennium.
The day is past for writing a defence of Astrology, and no amount of argument will ever convince the sceptic who is either too indolent or too perverse to investigate a science which claims to explain the law that governs all things. The best test that can be applied, to this as to all other subjects where first-hand knowledge is required, is that of experience.
Reason, thought, and experience, constitute the basis upon which the system adopted in this work is built. The ripened fruit of many years' toil and practice is here offered to those who are sufficiently thirsty for the knowledge that Astrology brings to mankind, the main object of the present publication being to satisfy the demand made by growing students for more light.
ASTROLOGY is the oldest of all sciences. Its history can be traced so far into the past that it becomes a hopeless task to actually discover when and where it had its origin. From Babylonia and Chaldea we find a belief in Astrology spreading throughout the whole world. Once the religion of a great and mighty race, it taught its people to lift their aspirations by faith, hope, and reverence, through the planetary spirits to the Logos of our solar system, the One Supreme and Universal Self.
Since the days of happy Chaldea, whose wise priests by the expansion of their consciousness could reach the shining ones, the star of Astrology appears to have waned, and for the multitude to have entirely disappeared. Its re-discovery is due to the spiritual activity that is again reviving the Wisdom Religion, as taught by Pythagoras and his earnest followers, and now once more we hope to see the star of stars slowly rising to shine again in all the splendour of its beneficent glory.
Bérósus, the Chaldean priest, to whom a statue with a gilt tongue was erected at Athens, translated the Illumination of Bel, an early Baby-lonian work, and introduced Astrology into Greece. The Greeks held to the old tradition for a time, but the study gradually became more of an art than a science with them, and had so far degenerated in its teachings that little trace of the original truths can be found in the Greek authors known to us, while it was left to the Romans finally to destroy the little life that was left in Astrology as an esoteric study. Nevertheless, in spite of strong governmental opposition it flourished in the early days of the Roman Empire, in its exoteric form, though through the pandering of its exponents to political exigencies it became corrupted and sank into what was known as judicial Astrology, finally becoming nothing more than a form of divination by which horoscopes were cast for the hour. By this time the knowledge of Uranus, the astrologer's star, had entirely disappeared, and substitutes were used to supply the place of the mystic planet in 'horary' Astrology; the old traditions were either lost, or hall become so corrupted and distorted that Astrology could no longer be called a science, but rather a mere mode of divination.
To restore the Astrology of the Chaldeans is the only hope that is left for all who would make this subject a practical and a beneficial study. With all due respect to modern exponents of the science, who have laboured hard in its defence, we are bound to admit that their study has been too much mixed up with considerations appertaining to horary' Astrology, a system which will not compare with the methods of astrological practice taught by the wise men of the East.
The discoveries of Egyptologists prove that the Egyptians had no claim to the invention of Astrology. They were taught by the Chaldean priests, who believe that "An affinity existed between the stars and the souls of men; that the ethereal essence is Divine; that the souls of men are taken from this reservoir, and return to it at death; and that the souls of the more eminent of mankind are converted into stars."
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