isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"The sun in Aries, Jupiter, is shown in astrology as a masculine, diurnal, cardinal, equinoctial, easterly sign, hot and dry, and answers perfectly to the character attributed to the fickle "Father of the gods." When angry Zeus-Akrios snatches from his fiery belt the thunderbolts which he hurls forth from heaven, he rends the clouds and [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"We have but to open the most common book on astrology, and compare the descriptions embraced in the Fable of the Twelve Houses with the most modern discoveries of science as to the nature of the planets and the elements in each star, to see that without any spectroscope the ancients were perfectly well-acquainted with [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"If their mode of impressing upon the popular minds the great astronomical truths differed from the "system of education" of our present century and appears ridiculous to some, the question still remains unanswered: which of the two systems was the best? With them science went in hand with religion, and the idea of God was [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VIII (our place among infinities)

"As to calling in question the intrinsic knowledge of the ancients on the ground of their "superstitious deductions from natural phenomena", it is as appropriate as it would be if, five hundred years hence, our descendants should regard the pupils of Professor Balfour Stewart as ancient ignoramuses, and himself a shallow philosopher. If modern science, [...]