Traditional Astrology by J. M. Ashmand

Traditional Astrology by J. M. Ashmand

Author:J. M. Ashmand [J. M. ASHMAND]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books on Demand
Published: 2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00


70:2 These coruscations are, perhaps, similar to those now known by the name of the Aurora Borealis.

70:3 Virgil again:

"Sæpe etiam stellas vento impendente videbis

Præcipites cœlo labi."--&c. Georg. I, l. 365.

A great part of the 1st Georgic consists of astrological rules for predicting the weather, closely resembling the precepts here given by Ptolemy. Virgil is said to have adopted his doctrine from Aratus.

BOOK THE THIRD

CHAPTER I

PROEM

IN the preceding pages, such events as effect the world generally I have been discussed in priority; because they are operated by certain principal and paramount causes, .which are, at the same time, predominant over particular and minor events applicable only to the separate properties and natural peculiarities of individuals. The foreknowledge of these particular events is called Genethlialogy, or the science of Nativities.



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