The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars - Volume 2 - Softcover

Burgoyne, Thomas H; Wagner, Belle M

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798240887130

Publisher: Arionabooks, 2026

Synopsis

THE ZODIAC

T

o the ordinary astrologer the Zodiac is simply a band of space, eighteen

degrees wide, in the heavens, the center of which marks out the pathway

of the Sun during the space of one year of 365 days, etc.

The twelve signs are to him simply thirty degrees of the space (12 times 30

equal 360), bearing the names of the constellations which once occupied

them. Nay, he, as a rule, still imagines in some sense that the signs (constel-

lations) are still there, and that the power and potency of the twelve signs is

derived from the stars which occupy the Zodiacal band of the skies.

But this is not so, as any ordinary astronomer well knows. This single fact,

i.e., the gradual shifting of the constellations, the DISPLACEMENT, let us

say, of the starry influx from one sign to anotherwithout anyALLOWANCE

being made in the astrologer's rules for any such change, has been one of the

greatest obstructions to the popular spread of the art among EDUCATED

MINDS. Argues the scientist: The "fiery influence of Aries," if depending

upon the stars of that constellation, ought now to be shedding forth their

caloric from the sign Pisces, and Aries ought to be lumbering along with the

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earthy Taurine nature. So, also, the lords of these signs ought to be changed,

but that they are not can be proved by the fact that our earliest records of

that dim, historic past show, equally as well as your latest "text-book," that

Mars is the lord of Aries-a fiery planet in a fiery sign; but astrologers still say

that Pisces is watery and Aries fiery, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE, IF THE

STARS HAVE ANY INFLUENCE AT ALL. It is not necessary," say these

logical thinkers, "to learn your abstruse science if we can demonstrate that

the very basis upon which your conclusions rest is in every sense fundamen-

tally false." The scientific facts of the case are as follows: The influence of the

twelve signs, as described by astrologers, is a delusion, because in all ages they

are reported the same; whereas WE KNOW that every 2,160 years each sign

retrogrades to the extent of thirty degrees, and, as your art does not make

allowance for this, it is false. For, if the influence of the twelve signs does not

emanate from the stars occupying the space of those signs, it must emanate

from nothing-a doctrine well suited, no doubt, to musty old sages of your

superstitious Chaldea, but quite out of court in our progressive age-the last

decade of our cultured and scientific nineteenth century.

So far, so good. And so the world rolls along its bright pathway in the heav-

ens, little heeding the logical conclusions of an exact science. But to an ini-

tiate of those inner principles of our planet's constitution all these mental

conflicts have a meaning and a purpose within Nature's divine economy; for

it is neither wise nor expedient that the masses, with popular science in the

lead, should grasp the truths which Mother Nature reserves ALONE for her

Edition details

• Publisher: Arionabooks
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798240887130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156