To Archimedes and other deep thinkers of ancient times, it was ASTROLOGOS: ASTRO "pertains to the celestial bodies" and LOGOS "is the rational principle that governs and develops the universe."
To teacher Jesus it was ASTROLOGIA and it probably got him killed. Dead men don't tell truths.
Logos is classic Greek for WORD (and the root word for logic)...
"In the beginning the Logos created the heaven and the earth."
Sounds logical to me.
By the 1700s, ASTROLOGOS
And why do as many as 60% of college students FAIL these dreary disciplines? Is it really failure or an instinctive resistance to limiting concepts wrapped in confusing complexity? And what's with the dudes who breeze through them?
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And logy became the standard suffix of the material age. defining its dreary disciplines, especially compared to what shoulda, woulda, coulda been.
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Many souls through time have praised and utilized ASTROLOGOS...
Dante
"Astrology [is] the noblest of sciences."
"Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars."
Confucius
"Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly."
Plato
"Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
D.H. Lawrence
"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."
Sir Walter Scott
"Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?"
Plato
Astrology compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another."
Goethe
"These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation."
Johannes Kepler
"An unfailing experience of mundane events in harmony with the changes
occurring in the heavens, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief."
Sri Yuktswar Giri
"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma."
Benjamin Franklin
"Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there... if you had but skill to read."
Sir Francis Bacon
"The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth,
distinguished from the predominance of the planets."
J.P. Morgan
"Millionaires don't use astrology, bilionaires do."
Carl Sagan
"If our lives are controlled by traffic signals in the sky,
why try to change anything?"
Sir Thomas Aquinas
"The celestial Bodies are the Cause of All that takes
place in the Sublunar World."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and
applied toward the affairs of men."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of
my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars."
William Fowler
"All of us are truly and literally a little bit of stardust."
William Shakespeare
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."
LD Broughton
"Without astrology man treads, as it were, in the dim twilight of ignorance."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream."
Varahamihira
"There is no better boat than a horoscope to help a man cross over the sea of life."
Donald Regan
"It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology."
John Webster
"We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded which way please them."
Lawrence Spector
""Practices do not persist for thousands of years, and in diverse cultures, without results."
Ahmed Hulusia
"An Astronomer who denies Astrology, is like a butcher who recognizes the brain but is unaware of its transmission of waves."
Sri Yukteswar Giri
"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma."
William Shakespeare
"I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop."
Glenn Perry, Ph.D.
"The value of astrology. . .is not its power to predict what the gods have in store for humans, but its ability to reveal the god-like powers that reside in the depths of every human being."
Paracelsus
"To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology,
it is necessary to understand and to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction."
UNESCO
"Throughout much of history, and up until the 17th century, astrology was considered an academic discipline across much of Eurasia… commonly accepted in political and cultural circles with astrological concepts applied in other fields including alchemy, meteorology, and traditional medicine."
T.H. Huxley
"The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in nature and his relation to the cosmos."
D.H. Lawrence
"The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins.
The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever.
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus?
But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time."
Carl Sagan
"That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism
were wrong." (i believe they know damn well and just didn't tell Sagan)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Astrology interested us, for it tied men to the system. Instead of an isolated beggar, the farthest star felt him and he felt the star. However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in it, the hint was true and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations and that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of its biography."
Johannes Kepler
"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."
Physicist Percy Seymour
"It's my view that those who use simplistic models to disprove astrology are violating the principles of the philosophy of science. Any number of theories may be shown not to work, but to say it follows that no theory of astrology can work is just bad science. It totally rules out scientific method. So, I came to the conclusion that they were totally unscientific - a form of rationalized bigotry cloaked in academic language."
Dr. Richard L. Thompson
"The word science means knowledge from a latin root. Nescience is the opposite of knowledge, or ignorance. Modern science began with a theological concept, that God is a mathematician and the language of God is Geometry [but] it's been taken over by persons of demonic mentality as the vehicle for presenting the philosophy of atheism."
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