Theos-Talk Archives (May 2005 Message tt00056)

May 2 2005

Dear C:

But how are such matters to be interpreted?

Who truly knows the cyclic patterns, so as to read the Clock of Karma?

Dallas

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Consider:

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ASTROLOGY (Gr.) The Science which defines the action of celestial
bodies upon mundane affairs, and claims to foretell future events from the
position of the stars. 

Its antiquity is such as to place it among the very earliest records of
human learning. It remained for long ages a secret science in the East, and
its final expression remains so to this day, its exoteric application having
been brought to any degree of perfection in the West only during the period
of time since Varaha Muhira wrote his book on Astrology some 1400 years ago.


Claudius Ptolemy, the famous geographer and mathematician, wrote his
treatise Tetrabiblos about 135 A.D., which is still the basis of modern
astrology. 

The science of Horoscopy is studied now chiefly under four heads: viz., 

(1) Mundane, in its application to meteorology, seismology, husbandry, etc. 

(2) State or civic, in regard to the fate of nations, kings and rulers. 

(3) Horary, in reference to the solving of doubts arising in the mind upon
any subject. 

(4) Genethliacal, in its application to the fate of individuals from the
moment of their birth to their death. 

The Egyptians and the Chaldees were among the most ancient votaries of
Astrology, though their modes of reading the stars and the modern practices
differ considerably. 

The former claimed that Belus, the Bel or Elu of the Chaldees, a scion of
the divine Dynasty, or the Dynasty of the king-gods, had belonged to the
land of Chemi, and had left it, to found a colony from Egypt on the banks of
the Euphrates, where a temple ministered by priests in the service of the
"lords of the stars" was built, the said priests adopting the name of
Chaldees. 

Two things are known: 

(a) that Thebes (in Egypt) claimed the honour of the invention of Astrology;
and 

(b) that it was the Chaldees who taught that science to the other nations. 

Now Thebes antedated considerably not only "Ur of the Chaldees", but also
Nipur, where Bel was first worshipped - Sin, his son (the moon), being the
presiding deity of Ur, the land of the nativity of Terah, the Sabean and
Astrolatrer, and of Abram, his son, the great Astrologer of biblical
tradition. All tends, therefore, to corroborate the Egyptian claim. 

If later on the name of Astrologer fell into disrepute in Rome and
elsewhere, it was owing to the fraud of those who wanted to make money by
means of that which was part and parcel of the sacred Science of the
Mysteries, and, ignorant of the latter, evolved a system based entirely upon
mathematics, instead of on transcendental metaphysics and having the
physical celestial bodies as its upadhi or material basis. 

Yet, all persecutions notwithstanding, the number of the adherents of
Astrology among the most intellectual and scientific minds was always very
great. If Cardan and Kepler were among its ardent supporters, then its later
votaries have nothing to blush for, even in its now imperfect and distorted
form. As said in Isis Unveiled (1. 259): "Astrology is to exact astronomy
what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has
to step beyond the visible world of matter, and enter into the domain of
transcendent spirit." (See " Astronomos.")
 

ASTRONOMOS (Gr.). The title given to the Initiate in the Seventh Degree of
the reception of the Mysteries. 

In days of old, Astronomy was synonymous with Astrology; and the great
Astrological Initiation took place in Egypt at Thebes, where the priests
perfected, if they did not wholly invent the science. 

Having passed through the degrees of Pastophoros, Neocoros, Melanophoros,
Kistophoros, and Balahala (the degree of Chemistry of the Stars), the
neophyte was taught the mystic signs of the Zodiac, in a circle dance
representing the course of the planets (the dance of Krishna and the Gopis,
celebrated to this day in Rajputana); after which he received a cross, the
Tau (or Tat), becoming an Astronomos and a Healer. (See Isis Unveiled. Vol.
II. 365). 

Astronomy and Chemistry were inseparable in these studies. 

"Hippocrates had so lively a faith in the influence of the stars on animated
beings, and on their diseases, that he expressly recommends not to trust to
physicians who are ignorant of astronomy.' (Arago.) 

Unfortunately the key to the final door of Astrology or Astronomy is lost by
the modern Astrologer; and without it, how can he ever be able to answer the
pertinent remark made by the author of Mazzaroth, who writes: "people are
said to be born under one sign, while in reality they are born under
another, because the sun is now seen among different stars at the equinox "?


Nevertheless, even the few truths he does know brought to his science such
eminent and scientific believers as Sir Isaac Newton, Bishops Jeremy and
Hall, Archbishop Usher, Dryden, Flamstead, Ashmole, John Milton, Steele, and
a host of noted Rosicrucians."
THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY 38-40

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cass Silva
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:57 PM
To: 
Subject: General daily overview

General Daily Overview

The Moon enters the water world of Pisces today at 10:43 am EDT, and nearly
immediately runs into feisty Mars, who just entered Pisces yesterday. We
feel energized by our emotions, yet we cannot easily turn our thoughts into
reality. 

Additionally, this is emphasized by the tense aspect between mental Mercury
and Mars. We might get angry, yet have no direct path to express what upsets
us. On the positive side, we are reminded of the imaginative and spiritual
frame of mind that will be with us for the next several weeks as Mars
continues through Pisces.