The importance of the Zodiac, and well may they fear the revelations which it may bring. Have gathered around it, to the superstition of peoples who knew no written language, nor arts, nor sciences,īut believed themselves able to read the signs and the tokens of the heavens above them.Īnd justly may the champions of the creed of a day seek to diminish History of the Zodiac and to a reduction of its symbology and the mysteries and the myths and the legends which That herein lie the mystic tracings, in divine handwriting, of the world's past and a prophecy of things to come.Īnd on the other side, we find very much the same enthusiasm of research, but directed to the belittling of the Almost insensibly to himself he is led to perceive
Something more than a glimpse into the secrets of the Universe. To the sincere student who wishes only for wisdom and understanding,Īnd who does not seek to force and to bend the facts of nature into the mould of his own creed, the Zodiac promises Wonder at the interest which it has evoked. There is probably no department which has given rise to discussion so animated, to speculations so varied, toĬonclusions often and usually so fallacious, as that of the Zodiac and its twelve signs. OF our nineteenth century researches into the knowledge, the science and the mythology of the ancients, Theosophy - The Zodiac by S.G.P.Coryn THE ZODIACĪs published in “Theosophical Siftings” - Volume 6 - 1893-1894