Astrology (As-trol'o-gy) is a pseudo-science based on a belief that a force or entity was the ruler over each section of the heavens. Every celestial movement and phenomenon, such as the rising and setting of the sun, the equinoxes and solstices, moon phases, eclipses, and meteors, were understood as the doings of theses entities. These cosmic movements were therefore regularly noted, and elaborate charts and tables of their occurrences were made, and from these, human affairs and terrestrial events were predicted. All matters, both public and private, were believed to be controlled by these forces or entities functioning in the heavens. As a consequence, political or military decisions were not made until the astrologers were called to read and interpret the omens and give their advice. In this way the priestly class grew to have great power and influence over the lives of the people. The ancient Babylonian Temples, for example, were equipped each with their own celestial observatory.
They held supernatural powers, a deep insight, and great wisdom, because the matter contained a number of controversial concepts of a moral, philosophical, and intellectual nature.
People were studied even before they were born, because being born on different days of the week, under different lunar phases, etc, were understood to have specific personality traits with which they developed the potential for easy compatibility, sympathy and understanding, and more opportunities for love and compassion, or for some degree of tension, antipathy, or lack of communication, hatred and mistrust.
The use of the concept was for some, inspiring, but to others, strange and disturbing. Any kind of searching implied an obligation to exchange with others in the same field, what has been found, in the interest of hastening the Harmony on Earth, and the ultimate Peace. However, the expectation in regard of the concepts taken as "Truths," had to agree with their own personal enlightenment as a group and with the personal and private conviction of each individual belonging to the group.
For giving you an example how it worked out for them, we list the seven days of the week and their meanings: -Sundays brought distinction. -Mondays, anger. -Tuesday, wealth and love of pleasure. -Wednesday, Intelligence. -Thursday, benevolence. -Fridays, piety, and -Saturdays, the fate to die on that same day. Also some days were regarded as lucky for specific undertakings, like it was recommended not to drink water on Wednesday or Friday evenings and not to undergo blood-letting on Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays because of the negative planetary influences.
Yet concerned astrologers in all walks of Life persistently predicted the approaching cataclysms bringing the danger of annihilation before the critical measure of chaos from the unbalanced forces of negative influence would crash in every individual soul and produce a chain reaction to the higher cosmological forces acting in the universe because of the connection through the umbilical cord that each form of life have with it.
We have been warned and called for a change, but few have answered. By the learning of using the Power and Wisdom of Love, we may reach the real Truth. It can be found in one place only, and that is in every man's and woman's communion with the eternal Source of Hidden Knowledge within, which we must seek and find individually for our own good and create a fragment of the rainbow-spectrum message of Peace on Earth to men and women and Good Will caroled by celestial beings more than two thousand years ago, who asked us "love one another," promising that what He did, we also are able to do.
We may point out the Way to others, but each must walk along that Way alone, until every single "lost one" has made the whole journey, and hopefully reach the Light of full-born-again soul at the end of the Way, that is where we began, a long-forgotten Time ago.
It is not too late, for the joyous message of angelic hosts still rings its clarion call today, heralding hope to those who are concerned about Life Redemption.
