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December 05, 2005
Modern Astrology
"Life is a phenomenon. Its production is due to the influence of the dynamics of the cosmos on a passive subject. It lives due to dynamics, each oscillation of organic pulsation is coordinated with the cosmic heart in a grandiose whole of nebulas, stars, the sun and the planet."
Alexander Chizhevsky (1897-1964), the author of the preceding words, spent years of his life building a case that extra-terrestrial influences (especially sun spots) correspond greatly to periods of scientific discovery, rare historical events (like influenza pandemics), and a revolutionary mentality (resulting in political upheavals, revolts, and civil wars). He is the father of a science called heliobiology, which one author says "verifies that the angular position of the moon and planets does affect the electromagnetic and cosmic radiation which impact with the earth, and in turn these field fluctuations affect many biological processes." Studies that have ocurred in this area of science find that times of cultural advances in the ancient Western civilizations correspond to those same times in the Eastern civilizations. I find it interesting that so many beliefs held by "superstitious" Medieval men are now being "verified" by "modern science." It seems that their Christian foundation compensated greatly for their lack of modern instruments of science.
It is also interesting to note that these findings of modern science give us another perspective from which to understand the relationship between the motions of the heavens and the activites of earth. The account of the maji, which we read during the advent season, has always facinated me. Certainly, those men knew divine revelation, which had reached those eastern civilizations from the exilic Jews. But they combined their understanding of that revelation with their correct interpretations of the heavens to guide them to the One who was born King of the Jews. The heavens are a pattern for the earth because they are an image of the highest heaven, God's abode. Thus, we must take the truths we understand from the heavens and impress them on the earth. And we must recognize that God's world is not composed merely of unrelated and atomized individualities. But all truth and all reality are connected to everything else.
Confused rambling, sure, but much food for thought and study.
Posted by jhyink at December 5, 2005 09:26 PM