What is Astrology?
Astrology is the ancient
science which delineates the influence of the stars upon Nature and
mankind. A horoscope is a map or diagram of the heavens cast for a
particular moment of time, drawn on paper, and read according to
well-established rules. The horoscope is calculated by a mathematical
process, free from the elements of chance or divination. Predictions are
deduced from the horoscope in a demonstrable and strict mathematical way,
"according to a certain chain of causes which for ages past have been found
uniformly to produce a correspondent train of effects. The science of the
stars then has not been established merely upon dogma and belief, but
derives its authority from thousands of years of observation "by
philosophers of the highest refinement." Astrology was practiced by the
earliest civilized peoples on the earth, and in every period of philosophic
and spiritual enlightenment was accorded a place of honor by those of high
birth and great learning.
