Astrology

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Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans Index
| | Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans Franz Cumont [1912] | This is a study of star-worship by Franz Cumont. At the turn…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Announcement
The American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Contents
| | page | | PREFACE | vii | | ANNOUNCEMENT | ix | | INTRODUCTION | xiii | | LECTURE I. THE CHALDEANS | 3 | | The "Pan-Babylonists,"…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Introduction
| Ἐκ τῶν οὐρανίων τὰ ἐπίγεια ἤρτηται κατά τινα φυσικήν συμπάθειαν. PHILO, De Opificio Mundi, c. 40.
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture I. The Chaldeans
During the period of the French Revolution citizen Dupuis, in three bulky volumes "On the Origin of all Forms of Worship" (1794), developed…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture II. Babylon and Greece
The relations of Greek philosophy with oriental theologies form a subject of vast extent, which has long been discussed. In this lecture we…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture III. The Dissemination in the West
We have seen the "Pan-Babylonist" mist, which obscured the historical horizon, vanish before the breath of criticism. It is not the fact…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture IV. Theology
Posidonius defined man as "the beholder and expounder of heaven." 1 Nature itself--the ancients vied with each other in insisting on this…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture V. Astral Mysticism--Ethics and Cult
A theology which was based on theories of celestial mechanism, which deified mere abstractions such as Time and its subdivisions, which…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Lecture VI. Eschatology
In the previous lecture we showed how, to the astronomer theologians, contemplation of the sky had become the source of a mystic union with…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Page Index
Index Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Page Index page v page vii page viii page ix page x page xi page xii page xiii…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Preface
It is the purpose of these lectures delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions, to sum…
Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans: Title Page
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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe Index
| print from Harmonia Macrocosmica, A. Cellarius (detail) [1660] (Public Domain Image) | From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe by…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Contents
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Errata
page 48: 'distruction'->'destruction' page 189: 'inhausted'->'inexhausted' page 203: 'quantative'->'quantitative' page 210…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: I. The Sk...
Nicholas of Cusa & Marcellus Palingenius The conception of the infinity of the universe, like everything else or nearly everything else…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: II. The New Astronomy and the New Metaphysics
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: III. The New Astronomy Against the New Metaphysics
Johannes Kepler's Rejection of Infinity The conception of the infinity of the universe is, of course, a purely metaphysical doctrine that…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: IV. Things Never Seen Before and Thoughts Never Thought
THE DISCOVERY OF NEW STARS IN THE WORLD SPACE AND THE MATERIALIZATION OF SPACE Galileo & Descartes I have already mentioned the Sidereus…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: IX. God and the World: Space, Matter, Ether and Spirit
Sacred Texts Sky Lore Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, by Alexander Koyré…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Index
Acceleration: 169 Ancients: concept of universe, 5, 14, 16, 17, 24, 60, 112; explanation of gravity, 208, 297-98; theory of…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Introduction
It is generally admitted that the seventeenth century underwent, and accomplished, a very radical spiritual revolution of which modern…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Notes
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Page Index
Index From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Page Index unnumbered page unnumbered page unnumbered page unnumbered page page vii…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Preface
Time and again, when studying the history of scientific and philosophical thought in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries—they are…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: Title Page and Front Matter
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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: V. Indefinite Extension or Infinite Space
Descartes & Henry More Henry More was one of the first partisans of Descartes in England even though, as a matter of fact, he never was a…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: VI. God and Space, Spirit and Matter
Henry More The breaking off of the correspondence with—and the death of—Descartes did not put an end to Henry More's preoccupation with the…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: VII. Absolute Space, Absolute Time and Their Relations to God
Malebranche, Newton & Bentley Henry More's conception of space, which makes it an attribute of God, is by no means—I have said it already…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: VIII. The Divinization of Space
Joseph Raphson Newton, as far as I know, never quoted More; nor did he make an explicit reference to his teachings. Yet the relations…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: X. Absolute Space and Absolute Time: God's Frame of Action
Sacred Texts Sky Lore Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, by Alexander Koyré…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: XI. The Work-Day God and the God of the Sabbath
Newton & Leibniz Newton's veiled and Roger Cotes’ open counterattack upon the "plenists" did not remain unanswered. If the Cartesians…
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe: XII. Conclusion: The Divine Artifex and the Dieu Fainéant
Why, indeed? Leibniz, who was much more interested in morals than in physics and in man than in the cosmos, could have answered that it was…
Harmonies of the World Index
| | Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler tr. by Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] | Johannes Kepler, who originally studied theology, was…
Harmonies of the World: 1. Concerning the Five Regular So...
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] [271] It has been said in the second book how the regular plane…
Harmonies of the World: 10. Epilogue Concerning the Sun, By Way of Conjecture
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] From the celestial music to the hearer, from the Muses to…
Harmonies of the World: 2. On the Kinship Between the Harmonic Ratios and the Five Regular Figures
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] [273] This kinship [cognatio] is various and manifold; but…
Harmonies of the World: 4. In What Things Having To Do Wi...
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Accordingly, if the image of the retrogradation and stations is…
Harmonies of the World: 5. In The Ratios of the Planetary Movements Which Are Apparent...
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Therefore by now I have proved by means of numbers gotten on…
Harmonies of the World: 6. In The Extreme Planetary Movements the Musical Modes or Tones Have Somehow Been Expressed
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] [294] This follows from the aforesaid and there is no need of…
Harmonies of the World: 7. The Universal Consonances of All Six Planets, Like Common Four-Part Counterpoint, Can Exist
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] [295] But now, Urania, there is need for louder sound while I…
Harmonies of the World: 8. In the Celestial Harmonies Which Planet Sings Soprano, Which Alto, Which Tenor, and Which Bass?
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Although these words are applied to human voices, while voices…
Harmonies of the World: 9. The Genesis of the Eccentricities in the Single Planets From the Procurement of the Consonances Between Their Movements
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Accordingly, since we see that the universal harmonies of all…
Harmonies of the World: Errata
page 1013: 'abolutely'->'absolutely' page 1018: 'distnace'->'distance' page 1023: 'preceptible'->'perceptible' page 1035…
Harmonies of the World: Proem
Harmonies of the World, by Johannes Kepler, tr. Charles Glenn Wallis [1939] Concerning the very perfect harmony of the celestial movements…
Harmonies of the World: Title Page
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Introduction to Astrology Index
Sacred Texts Sky Lore An Introduction to Astrology by William Lilly Zadkiel, ed. [1852] First published in 1647, as Christian Astrology…
Introduction to Astrology: Appendix: Description of Persons According as the Significator may be Found in Each of the Twelve Signs
SATURN in the Twelve Signs. ♄ in ♈ Gives a ruddy complexion, a spare, rawboned person, full-faced, dark hair, not much beard, addicted to…
Introduction to Astrology: Appendix: Effects of the Aspec...
♄ ☌ ♃ If ♄ be significator, he gives the querent inheritance of estates, and profit by means of agriculture; his disposition is extremely…

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