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1Astrology, per se, is a combination of two sciences, viz.: astronomy and correspondences. These two are related to each other as hand and glove; the former deals with suns, moons, planets and stars, and strictly confines its researches to a knowledge of their size, distance and motion, while the latter deals with the spiritual and physical in¬ fluences of the same bodies; first upon each other, then upon the earth, and lastly upon the organism of man. Astronomy is the external life¬ less glove; correspondences is the living hand within. It was from the mystical land of Chaldea that our Egyptian an¬ cestors derived their knowledge of Astronomy and Astrology. This knowledge was, fortunately, transplanted into good soil and flourished for untold ages under the fostering care of her mighty priesthood and colossal sacerdotalism. From the fertile valley of the Nile, long ages before Abraham and his herdsmen wandered over the desert of Arabia, this sublime science of the starry heavens, with its priestly devotees, was carried by tidal emigration over the Caucasus, across the arid steppes of Asia, through the wild mountain passes of Afghanistan and Thibet to the burning plains of Hindustan, and from thence was spread by India’s dusky sons among the Mongol and Tartar races of the still remoter East.
2Knowledge, we are told, travels westward, and, so far as Europe and America are concerned, this is true in the present cycle. But the time once was when this mental and intellectual current was re¬ versed, and knowledge traveled eastward. From the magical schools of the lost Atlantis, the sacred stream of learning flowed towards the rising sun into the regions of Central i 200 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT Africa, and from thence to the coast, up the Persian gulf to Chaldea, then from the banks of the sacred Euphrates and the plains of Shinar the stream flowed backward (as though weary and seeking rest) toward its native home in the Western seas, only to be detained upon its journey and to find a temporary resting place in the wondrous valley of the Nile; when, after changing its personal appearance somewhat and adopting the dress of its gifted patrons, it was again projected onward by the restless impulse of Egyptian enterprise, along the shores of the Mediterranean and Black seas to the Caucasus, and thence eastward, as before mentioned, to the dreamy skies of India.
3When we come to think of the awful vastness and inconceivable beauty of the glittering worlds which stud, like jewels, the dark canopy of our midnight skies, undoubtedly, we must admit that the contem¬ plation of the shining heavens, with its myriad galaxies of starry systems and stretch of fathomless eternities, forms a sublime study for the thinking astronomical mind. There, alone, can he see some¬ thing of the boundless affinity of the universe. But to the Occult student of Urania’s blazing firmament, the shining constellations, with their cabalistic names and weird mythological histories; the glittering suns of these far off astral systems; and the shining planets which belong to the same solar family as ourselves; possess a deeper in¬ terest. Everything around us, save this blazing firmament, is in a state of transition. Besides the fleeting changes, which the return of the seasons bring; the landscape around us is changing its aspect every year. In fact, all around us is change. There is nothing but one eternal change of form. But the gorgeous creations in the sky are still there; undimmed in brightness, unchanged in grandeur; performing, with unflagging pace and unvarying precision, their daily, their annual, and their mighty cyclic rounds. Upon the same heavens, just as we see them now; bespangled with the same planets and with the same familiar stars; gazed the first parents of our race, when they began and also when they ended their pilgrimage upon this mundane sphere of life. The same constellations; Arcturus, Orion, and the Pleiades, sang together with the morning stars when the fiery foundations of our earth were laid; and they rolled in the fabled darkness over Cal¬ vary when the gentle Nazarine was slain. These wonders in the sky, are truly the only objects which all nations have witnessed, and all people have admired. They are truly the only objects in the universe
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1Astrology, per se, is a combination of two sciences, viz.: astronomy and correspondences. These two are related to each other as hand and glove; the former deals with suns, moons, planets and stars, and strictly confines its researches to a knowledge of their size, distance and motion, while the latter deals with the spiritual and physical in¬ fluences of the same bodies; first upon each other, then upon the earth, and lastly upon the organism of man. Astronomy is the external life¬ less glove; correspondences is the living hand within. It was from the mystical land of Chaldea that our Egyptian an¬ cestors derived their knowledge of Astronomy and Astrology. This knowledge was, fortunately, transplanted into good soil and flourished for untold ages under the fostering care of her mighty priesthood and colossal sacerdotalism. From the fertile valley of the Nile, long ages before Abraham and his herdsmen wandered over the desert of Arabia, this sublime science of the starry heavens, with its priestly devotees, was carried by tidal emigration over the Caucasus, across the arid steppes of Asia, through the wild mountain passes of Afghanistan and Thibet to the burning plains of Hindustan, and from thence was spread by India’s dusky sons among the Mongol and Tartar races of the still remoter East.
2Knowledge, we are told, travels westward, and, so far as Europe and America are concerned, this is true in the present cycle. But the time once was when this mental and intellectual current was re¬ versed, and knowledge traveled eastward. From the magical schools of the lost Atlantis, the sacred stream of learning flowed towards the rising sun into the regions of Central i 200 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT Africa, and from thence to the coast, up the Persian gulf to Chaldea, then from the banks of the sacred Euphrates and the plains of Shinar the stream flowed backward (as though weary and seeking rest) toward its native home in the Western seas, only to be detained upon its journey and to find a temporary resting place in the wondrous valley of the Nile; when, after changing its personal appearance somewhat and adopting the dress of its gifted patrons, it was again projected onward by the restless impulse of Egyptian enterprise, along the shores of the Mediterranean and Black seas to the Caucasus, and thence eastward, as before mentioned, to the dreamy skies of India.
3When we come to think of the awful vastness and inconceivable beauty of the glittering worlds which stud, like jewels, the dark canopy of our midnight skies, undoubtedly, we must admit that the contem¬ plation of the shining heavens, with its myriad galaxies of starry systems and stretch of fathomless eternities, forms a sublime study for the thinking astronomical mind. There, alone, can he see some¬ thing of the boundless affinity of the universe. But to the Occult student of Urania’s blazing firmament, the shining constellations, with their cabalistic names and weird mythological histories; the glittering suns of these far off astral systems; and the shining planets which belong to the same solar family as ourselves; possess a deeper in¬ terest. Everything around us, save this blazing firmament, is in a state of transition. Besides the fleeting changes, which the return of the seasons bring; the landscape around us is changing its aspect every year. In fact, all around us is change. There is nothing but one eternal change of form. But the gorgeous creations in the sky are still there; undimmed in brightness, unchanged in grandeur; performing, with unflagging pace and unvarying precision, their daily, their annual, and their mighty cyclic rounds. Upon the same heavens, just as we see them now; bespangled with the same planets and with the same familiar stars; gazed the first parents of our race, when they began and also when they ended their pilgrimage upon this mundane sphere of life. The same constellations; Arcturus, Orion, and the Pleiades, sang together with the morning stars when the fiery foundations of our earth were laid; and they rolled in the fabled darkness over Cal¬ vary when the gentle Nazarine was slain. These wonders in the sky, are truly the only objects which all nations have witnessed, and all people have admired. They are truly the only objects in the universe
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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