https://en.teopedia.org/w-lib/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=HPB-SD%28ed.1%29_v.1_p.3_sec.17HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.3 sec.17 - Revision history2026-04-19T03:50:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.41.2https://en.teopedia.org/w-lib/index.php?title=HPB-SD(ed.1)_v.1_p.3_sec.17&diff=30110&oldid=prevPavel Malakhov at 07:13, 30 July 20252025-07-30T07:13:07Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thus what Kepler said, as a great astronomer, becomes comprehensible. He recognised the grand and universal importance of all such planetary conjunctions, “&nbsp;each of which&nbsp;”&nbsp;—&nbsp;as he has well said&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;is a ''climacteric ''year of Humanity.”&nbsp;* The rare conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars has its significance and importance on account of its ''certain great results''&nbsp;—&nbsp;in India and China as much as it has in Europe for the respective mystics of all those countries. And it is certainly no better now than a mere assumption to maintain that nature had only Christ in view, when building her (to the profane) fantastic and meaningless constellations. If it is claimed that it was no hazard that could lead the archaic architects of the Zodiac, thousands of years ago, to mark with the asterisk (''a'') the figure of ''Taurus'', with no better or more valid proof of it being ''prophetic ''of the ''Verbum ''or Christ than that the ''aleph ''of ''Taurus ''means “&nbsp;the one&nbsp;” and the first, and that Christ was also the ''alpha ''or the one, then this “&nbsp;proof&nbsp;” may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. To begin with, the Zodiac existed before the Christian era, at all events&nbsp;; further, all the Sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (Taurus)&nbsp;—&nbsp;Osiris, for instance&nbsp;—&nbsp;and were all called by their respective votaries “&nbsp;the First.” Then the compilers of the mystical epithets given to the Christian Saviour, were all more or less acquainted with</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thus what Kepler said, as a great astronomer, becomes comprehensible. He recognised the grand and universal importance of all such planetary conjunctions, “&nbsp;each of which&nbsp;”&nbsp;—&nbsp;as he has well said&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;is a ''climacteric ''year of Humanity.”&nbsp;* The rare conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars has its significance and importance on account of its ''certain great results''&nbsp;—&nbsp;in India and China as much as it has in Europe for the respective mystics of all those countries. And it is certainly no better now than a mere assumption to maintain that nature had only Christ in view, when building her (to the profane) fantastic and meaningless constellations. If it is claimed that it was no hazard that could lead the archaic architects of the Zodiac, thousands of years ago, to mark with the asterisk (''a'') the figure of ''Taurus'', with no better or more valid proof of it being ''prophetic ''of the ''Verbum ''or Christ than that the ''aleph ''of ''Taurus ''means “&nbsp;the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Style S-Small capitals|</ins>one<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</ins>&nbsp;” and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Style S-Small capitals|</ins>first<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</ins>, and that Christ was also the ''alpha ''or the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Style S-Small capitals|</ins>one<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</ins>, then this “&nbsp;proof&nbsp;” may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. To begin with, the Zodiac existed before the Christian era, at all events&nbsp;; further, all the Sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (Taurus)&nbsp;—&nbsp;Osiris, for instance&nbsp;—&nbsp;and were all called by their respective votaries “&nbsp;the First.” Then the compilers of the mystical epithets given to the Christian Saviour, were all more or less acquainted with</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Style P-No indent|''Cimah'') and the chambers of the South&nbsp;” (ix. 9)&nbsp;; of Scorpio and the ''Mazzaroths''&nbsp;—&nbsp;the twelve signs (xxxviii., 31,32), which words, if they mean anything, imply knowledge of the Zodiac even among the nomadic Arabic tribes. The ''Book of Job'', they say, precedes Homer and Hesiod by at least one thousand years&nbsp;—&nbsp;the two Greek poets having themselves flourished some eight centuries before the Christian era (&nbsp;!!&nbsp;). One who prefers, by the bye, to believe Plato, who shows Homer flourishing far earlier, could point to a number of Zodiacal signs mentioned in the ''Iliad ''and the ''Odyssey'', in the Orphic poems, and elsewhere. But since the cock-and-bull hypothesis of some modern critics to the effect that neither Orpheus, nor yet Homer and Hesiod, ever existed, it would seem time lost to mention these Archaic authors at all. The Arabian ''Job ''will suffice&nbsp;; unless, indeed, his volume of lamentations, along with the poems of the two Greeks, adding to them those of Linus, should now be also declared to be the patriotic forgery of the Jew Aristobulus. But if the Zodiac was known in the days of Job, how could the civilized and philosophical Hindus have remained ignorant of it&nbsp;?}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{Style P-No indent|''Cimah'') and the chambers of the South&nbsp;” (ix. 9)&nbsp;; of Scorpio and the ''Mazzaroths''&nbsp;—&nbsp;the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Style S-Small capitals|</ins>twelve signs<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}} </ins>(xxxviii., 31,32), which words, if they mean anything, imply knowledge of the Zodiac even among the nomadic Arabic tribes. The ''Book of Job'', they say, precedes Homer and Hesiod by at least one thousand years&nbsp;—&nbsp;the two Greek poets having themselves flourished some eight centuries before the Christian era (&nbsp;!!&nbsp;). One who prefers, by the bye, to believe Plato, who shows Homer flourishing far earlier, could point to a number of Zodiacal signs mentioned in the ''Iliad ''and the ''Odyssey'', in the Orphic poems, and elsewhere. But since the cock-and-bull hypothesis of some modern critics to the effect that neither Orpheus, nor yet Homer and Hesiod, ever existed, it would seem time lost to mention these Archaic authors at all. The Arabian ''Job ''will suffice&nbsp;; unless, indeed, his volume of lamentations, along with the poems of the two Greeks, adding to them those of Linus, should now be also declared to be the patriotic forgery of the Jew Aristobulus. But if the Zodiac was known in the days of Job, how could the civilized and philosophical Hindus have remained ignorant of it&nbsp;?}}</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Risking the arrows of modern criticism&nbsp;—&nbsp;rather blunted by misuse&nbsp;—&nbsp;the reader may be made acquainted with Bailly’s learned opinion upon the subject. Inferred speculations may be shown to be erroneous. Mathematical calculations stand on more secure grounds. Taking as a starting point several astronomical references in ''Job'', Bailly devised a very ingenious means of proving that the earliest founders of the science of the Zodiac belonged to an antediluvian, primitive people. The fact that he seems willing to see in Thoth, Seth, and in ''Fohi ''(of China), some of the Biblical patriarchs, does not interfere with the validity of his proof as to the antiquity of the Zodiac.&nbsp;* Even accepting, for argument’s sake, his cautious 3700 years B.C. as the correct age of the science, this date proves in the most irrefutable way that it was not the Greeks who invented the Zodiac, for the simple reason that they did not yet exist as a nation thirty-seven centuries B.C.&nbsp;—&nbsp;not as an ''historical ''race admitted by the critics, at any rate. Bailly then calculated the period at which the constellations manifested the atmospheric influence called by Job “&nbsp;sweet influences of the Pleiades&nbsp;”&nbsp;† (in Hebrew, ''Chimah'', see ''Job xxxviii. ''31)&nbsp;; of the ''Cesil ''(Orion)&nbsp;; and that of the ''desert ''rains with reference to ''Scorpio'', the eighth constellation&nbsp;; and found that in presence the eternal conformity of those divisions of the zodiac and names of the planets applied in the same order everywhere and always&nbsp;; and in presence of the impossibility of attributing it all to chance and ''coincidence'',</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Risking the arrows of modern criticism&nbsp;—&nbsp;rather blunted by misuse&nbsp;—&nbsp;the reader may be made acquainted with Bailly’s learned opinion upon the subject. Inferred speculations may be shown to be erroneous. Mathematical calculations stand on more secure grounds. Taking as a starting point several astronomical references in ''Job'', Bailly devised a very ingenious means of proving that the earliest founders of the science of the Zodiac belonged to an antediluvian, primitive people. The fact that he seems willing to see in Thoth, Seth, and in ''Fohi ''(of China), some of the Biblical patriarchs, does not interfere with the validity of his proof as to the antiquity of the Zodiac.&nbsp;* Even accepting, for argument’s sake, his cautious 3700 years B.C. as the correct age of the science, this date proves in the most irrefutable way that it was not the Greeks who invented the Zodiac, for the simple reason that they did not yet exist as a nation thirty-seven centuries B.C.&nbsp;—&nbsp;not as an ''historical ''race admitted by the critics, at any rate. Bailly then calculated the period at which the constellations manifested the atmospheric influence called by Job “&nbsp;sweet influences of the Pleiades&nbsp;”&nbsp;† (in Hebrew, ''Chimah'', see ''Job xxxviii. ''31)&nbsp;; of the ''Cesil ''(Orion)&nbsp;; and that of the ''desert ''rains with reference to ''Scorpio'', the eighth constellation&nbsp;; and found that in presence the eternal conformity of those divisions of the zodiac and names of the planets applied in the same order everywhere and always&nbsp;; and in presence of the impossibility of attributing it all to chance and ''coincidence'',</div></td></tr>
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