Application ofastrology to the prolongation of life, etc.
The knight read it; and in that age, when astrology was considered a science as unerring as holy prophecies, it would have been little less than infidelity to have doubted the truth of the prediction.
Thus it is evident, that astrology is built upon no principles, that it is founded on fables, and on influences void of reality.
The pretended issues of astrology have been always inseparable from stellar influence, and the zodiac has ever been the fruitful source of its solemn delusions.
In the time of the civil wars, astrology was in high repute.
The professors of astrology appeared as the confidents of these invisible rulers, and the interpreters of their will; they were well versed in the art of giving a respectable appearance to this usurped dignity.
In a sketch of the state of astrology in his day, the adepts whose characters he has drawn were the lowest miscreants of the town.
We shall so far conclude these observations on the chimera of astrology and medicine with the following remarks in the words of Chamber against Knight's work,[79] which defends this fanciful science, if science it may be called.
Natural astrology is confined to the study of exploring natural effects, in which sense it is admitted to be a part of natural philosophy.
Matteo Villani declares astrology to be a vice which the Florentines had inherited, along with other superstitions, from their pagan ancestors, the Romans.
We shall recur to the subject of astrology when we come to speak of the moral and religious character of the people.
The gap thus opened was in the first place filled by the astrology of antiquity, or even of the Arabs.
Yet apart from the latter, astrology is a miserable feature in the life of that time.
The foundation of buildings all through the fifteenth century was associated not only with astrology but also with magic.
But the contempt for astrology did not necessarily lead to a return to the belief in Providence.
Even Leo X seems to have thought the flourishing condition of astrology a credit to his pontificate, and Paul III never held a Consistory till the stargazers had fixed the hour.
There was also another cause which now began to tell against astrology in Italy.
Astrology remained more or less in fashion, but seems not to have governed human life in the way it formerly had done.
The influence of astrology in war was confirmed by the fact that nearly all the Condottieri believed in it.
One of these was Maestro Pagolo of Florence, in whom we can detect the same desire to bring astrology to moral account which meets us in the late Roman Firmicus Maternus.
It is rather difficult nowadays to distinguish the link which united science to astrology and astrology to religion.
Astronomy was a secondary object, astrology the principal one.
Astrology was one of the modes most anciently and universally resorted to for discovering the fortunes of men and nations.
Lilly made some progress in astrology under Evans, and practised the art in minor matters with a certain success; but his ambition led him to aspire to the highest place in his profession.
Astronomy and astrology went hand in hand, particularly among the people of the East.
The general belief in astrologyhad a memorable effect on the history of the human mind.
The profession of Medicine was far from immune, and at the University of Bologna, where a chair of Astrology had long been established,[170] the study was pursued with ardour and enthusiasm.
During the second half of the fifteenth century, a perfect mania for the study of astrology infected Italy and penetrated equally into the Court, the Church, and the Academy.
Hodges swore I did more by astrology than he could by the crystal, and use thereof, which indeed he understood as perfectly as any one in England.
Since his decease I have seen one nativity of his performance exactly directed, and judged with as much learning as from astrology can be expected.
By astrology he resolved thievish questions with great success; that was his utmost sole practice.
My counsel was the Recorder Green, who after he had answered all objections, concluded astrology was a lawful art.
I believe it,' said his Majesty, 'and that Lilly understands astrologyas well as any man in Europe.
It happened, that after I discerned what astrology was, I went weekly into Little Britain, and bought many books of astrology, not acquainting Evans therewith.
The substance of my Epistle was, that I did conceive the good angels of God did first reveal astrology unto mankind, &c.
The introduction of astrology into Europe has a passing interest.
At first an expression of primitive "science," astrology became a superstition, from which the human mind has not yet escaped.
In contrast to divination, astrology does not seem to have made much impression on the Hebrews and definite references in the Bible are scanty.
We have seen how the practice ofastrology spread from Babylonia and Greece throughout the Roman Empire.
There is only one mention of astrology (Acts vii, 43); there are no witches, neither are there charms or incantations.
A belief that the stars in their courses fought for or against him arose early in their civilizations, and directly out of their studies on astrology and mathematics.
From this time on until the Renaissance, like a shadow, astrology follows astronomy.
But in the Greek conquest of the Roman mind, astrology took a prominent role.
Long into the Middle Ages, the same unholy alliance with astrology and divination caused mathematics to be regarded with suspicion, and even Abelard calls it a nefarious study.
Roger Bacon himself was a warm believer in judicial astrology and in the influence of the planets, stars and comets on generation, disease and death.
The Chaldeo-Assyrian astrology gave the name Kisiluv to the ninth month, connecting it with the zodiacal sign Sagittarius.
The introduction of the planets into astrology gave a greater diversity to the material used by the fortune-tellers.
It is to our shame that even to-day, in spite of all our enlightenment and scientific advances, astrology still has a hold upon multitudes.
An early phase of planetary astrology consisted in the allotment of a planet to each hour of the day and also to each day of the week.
Such fortune-telling was forbidden to the Hebrews; necessarily forbidden, for astrology had no excuse unless the stars and planets were gods, or the vehicles and engines of gods.
Astrology is inevitably linked with heathenism, and both shut up spirit and mind against the knowledge of God Himself, which is religion; and against the knowledge of His works, which is science.
The believer in one God and the scientist alike derive their heritage from the Hebrew, whilst the modern astrologer claims that the astrology of to-day is once more a revelation of the Chaldean and Assyrian religions.
The astrology of to-day shows the same essential features.
All these varied forms of astrology are therefore comparatively recent.
Astrology does not contribute, has not contributed a single observation, a single demonstration to astronomy.
He was much troubled to reconcile his astrology with the fact of his having taken so much pains about a negotiation not destined to succeed.
And, even before it was decreed that all enchanters and sorcerers should either leave the Kingdom or take up some other profession, I had discovered that astrology was my true vocation.
But take my advice, Sir, and stick to Astrology for the future--much more gentlemanly pursuit!
Astrology bars the way to medical progress, certain days are supposed to be unlucky, and on these days the patient is allowed to suffer rather than that medicines should be administered.
It is not that they are without seats of learning, but such as they have are schools of error in which under the pretext of studying astronomy, they devote themselves to all the lies of astrology in order to seek for revelations of the future.
The secrets and Occult mysteries of Astrology are revealed and explained for the first time, it is affirmed, since the days of Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
The attraction of the outer world was losing its fascination for him, the longings from within grew stronger and more clamorous for outward expression until, one day, he advanced the subject of astrologyto the Princess Nu-nah.
Later, as the business of astrology became a profitable one, sincere astronomers would find it expedient to practise astrology as a means of gaining a livelihood.
The cause of the decline of astrology was the growing prevalence of the new spirit of experimental science.
Such a philosopher as Kepler freely admitted that he practised astrology "to keep from starving," although he confessed no faith in such predictions.
In England, from the time of Elizabeth to the reign of William and Mary, judicial astrology was at its height.
The dangers attendant upon astrology were of such a nature that the lot of the astrologer was likely to prove anything but an enviable one.
It is quite possible, however, that astronomy is the older of the two; but astrology must have developed very shortly after.
Saturnus, who in astrology is a watery star, and has his house in the sign of the waterman, was among the Romans, and before them among the Greeks and Chaldaeans, the lord of the seventh day.
Astrology is treated as a science which governs the life of man.
Astrology and astronomy were in fact closely identified in the ancient world, and relics of the superstition still linger in the form of Zadkiel almanacs.
The antiquity of astrology is very great, it having been originated by the Chaldeans, and was thought by some of the Jews to have been a method by which the Creator could communicate with His people.
In telling the stars and casting horoscopes he would be learned, as astrology entered very largely into his practice, and brought many big fees.
Nevertheless, imperfect as the science of astrology is, my reading of fate was clear enough to teach me who and what you were, and, in a general way, where you were to be found.
The new system is called Copernican after its first modern exponent--and its general acceptance went far to annihilate astrology and to place astronomy upon a rational basis.
This connection between medicine and astrology survives in the sign of Jupiter 4, which still heads medicinal prescriptions.
The aim of astrology is to bring the motions of the celestial bodies into relation with the wretched Ego and to establish a connection between a comet in the sky and squabbles and rascalities on earth.
Astrology furnishes a magnificent proof of this miserable subjective tendency in men, which leads them to see everything only as bearing upon themselves, and to think of nothing that is not straightway made into a personal matter.
These pretenders to knowledge are supported by persons of rank; and in vain do the more enlightened part of the community exclaim that astrology is a false {257} science.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astrology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
