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A CORDIAL WELCOME TO FATHER'S HOME PAGE. |
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ASTROLOGY - A CURSORY GAZE. |
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Recently astrology has re-emerged and became part of Western popular culture as a result of the rise of the utopian 'new age' counter-culture of the 1960s. This article, 'Astrology - A Cursory Gaze', has been written to challenge some of the principal astrological concepts, and to serve as an exploratory exercise to stimulate serious interest for those who wish to scratch below the surface to discover whether or not astrology has any intellectual value.
A CHRONOLOGICAL WESTERN
GLIMPSE OF ASTROLOGY FROM
626 BC TO 1727 AD:
Western astrology stems from two sources, the Hellenistic and Jewish. The former is derived from the ' Corpus Hermeticum ' text, for the most part, the ' Hermes Trismegistos ' (circa. 2nd cent . AD) containing a synthesis of Neo-Pythagorean, Platonic, and Stoic elements, as well as Eastern religions. The latter, the Kabbalah (12th cent. AD), id est., 'traditional lore' evolved from two reciprocal Jewish traditions: Firstly, the Talmudic Sages, the originators of Rabbinic Judaism, who perceived logic as their prime principal in comprehending YHVH ('God').
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~ FUNDAMENTALISM ~
Rev. Father Maximiadis
The Fundamentalist movement was formed as the 'World's Christian Fundamentals Association' shortly after World War I (1914-18). In the following decade it created denominational conflict across the United States through its vigorous militant campaigns. This had the effect of dividing the Protestant Churches into two distinct groups: the Fundamentalists and the Modernists.
REJECTION OF
HISTORICAL FACTORS.
Through this division arose a retrogression by Fundamentalists, and political Right activists, from the liberal theology of the Modernists to oversimplistic, arbitrary interpretation of the Bible. The Fundamentalists preclude the Bible from: literal allegorical scenarios of 'Truth', and the ancient socio-religious institutions of Palestine. They also exclude the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomic and Priestly Traditions, and the effects of the Pax Romana (27BC - 180AD) upon the Mediterranean world. And the inseparableness of the sacred Scripture and Tradition of the ancient Church which nurtured, canonized; and with Apostolic authority, interpreted the Scriptures.
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