Astrology Notes

[SteveS]

A few of my notes over 40 years studying the great Mystery of Astrology:

PSALM 19: The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

But the truths which sparkle here and there in the teachings
of India, China or of Greece, fade and vanish before
the blaze of Egyptian theosophy.


Mystery is the beginning; mystery is the ending; mystery is the whole
body of our life.


Such a system of harmonious periods and of measured
intervals, corresponding to universal, not arbitrary
standards, was a natural, and indeed an essential, element in
the theosophy of a priesthood whose religious teaching was
intentionally veiled under the analogies of astronomy.

In examining, therefore, the astronomical science of the
“Mystery-Teachers of the Heavens," to use the official
title employed in the Court of Pharaoh, we may not unreasonably
expect to trace the origin and signification of
various familiar measures, of which the use is widely diffused,
but the fundamental conception unknown.

That the moon was the sacred and, at least in early times,
the secret standard of Egyptian science, there seems little
doubt. Thoth, the Great Lord of Wisdom and of Measure,
the divine recorder, before whom stood the Balance of
Justice, wherein the light and darkness of man's mortal life
were weighed, was lord, not of the sun, but of the moon;

1 Marsham Adams says: For most of the facts here stated with regard to
Egyptian Astronomy, I am indebted to the invaluable researches of the late
lamented Dr. Brugsch upon the Kalendar, as I am also to his history for
quotations from the papyri, and allusions to the customs of the country.

Equally simple is the fundamental
measure of time, namely the hour or period required by the
moon in her orbit, relatively to -the sun, to traverse a space
equal to her own disc; and this measure was peculiarly sacred
in Egypt, each hour of the twenty-four which elapse during
a single rotation of the earth' being consecrated to its own
particular deity, twelve of light and twelve of darkness.
" Explain the God in the Hour" is the demand made of the
adept in the Hall of Justification. And that God in the Hour,
we learn, was Thoth, the Lord of the Moon and the
“Reckoner of the Earth."

[staragewiz]

Interesting take. Although I prefer to leave religion out of it.

[SteveS]

"Modern religion is a screen thrown over the mysterious universe, and a-lot of what is read as dogma religion is actually things to do with astrology--astronomy." Rob Hand