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Enuma Elish
Tablet V (2)
The stars, their images, as the stars of the Zodiac, he fixed
Bundahishn
Chapter II (2)
First he produced, the celestial sphere, and the constellation stars are assigned to it by him; especially these twelve whose names are Varak (the...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (119)
He fixed a vast multitude of un-wandering Stars, not by a strain laborious and hurtful, but with stability void of movement, forcing Fire forward...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXXXII (9)
And these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in their seasons and festivals and months.
Bundahishn
Chapter II (6)
On the recommendation of those chieftains the many unnumbered stars are specially assigned to the various quarters and various places, as the united...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (27)
For when God created the Stars, he created them out of the Rising up of the Infinity, out of the old Body of God then further kindled.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (43)
The early star gazers, after dividing the zodiac into its houses, appointed the three brightest scars in each constellation to be the joint rulers of...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXIII (3)
And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individua...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (38)
For the instant or innate Wheel of the Stars and Planets is no otherwise than as the Birth or Geniture of the seventh Spirit of Nature, before the Tim...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (5)
There is a popular theory concerning the origin of the zodiacal creatures to the effect that they were products of the imagination of shepherds, who,...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (4)
The Greeks, and later other peoples influenced by their culture, divided the band of the zodiac into twelve sections, each being sixteen degrees in...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (33)
For from the Heaven the Stars have their first Kindling, and are only as an Instrument, which God useth to the Birth or Geniture.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (6)
On this subject Richard Payne Knight writes: "The emblematical meaning, which certain animals were employed to signify, was only some particular...
On the Mysteries
III, Chapter XVI (2)
But these are moved conformably to the mandates of the celestial Gods. For the most pure, agile, and supreme part of the air, is adapted to be enkindl...
Book of Enoch
Chapter XLIII (1)
And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Bembine Table of Isis (54)
The upper panel contains the twelve figures of the zodiac arranged in four triads. The center figure in each group represents one of the four fixed...
Chaldean Oracles
The World and Nature. (142)
The most celebrated of the Babylonians, together with Ostanes and Zoroaster, very properly call the starry Spheres "Herds"; whether because these...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (2)
The pagans looked upon the stars as living things, capable of influencing the destinies of individuals, nations, and races. That the early Jewish...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (15)
Albert Pike describes the reverence which the Persians felt for this sign and the method of astrological symbolism in vogue among them, thus: "In...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Zodiac and Its Signs (26)
The pagans believed that the zodiac formed the body of the Grand Man of the Universe. This body, which they called the Macrocosm (the Great World),...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Sun, A Universal Deity (3)
Many early priests and prophets, both pagan and Christian, were versed in astronomy and astrology; their writings are best understood when read in...
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