Show ASTROLOGY'S HOLD HOLDON HOLDON HOLDON ON EASTERN MIND Astrology which Is as clearly one of the oldest of superstitions as astronomy as ng Is the oldest of ot the sciences appears to have reached Its climax In n the tho West Vest In the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries when Its position position post post- tion was one of great honor and Importance Importance Importance Im Im- In the courts of Europe But Dut the combined effect of the Copernican Co- Co astronomy the ReformatIon Reformation Reformation Reforma Reforma- tion and the Renaissance was to sap Its foundations and after the middle of ot the Seventeenth century Its decline was rapid and unchecked In the East however howe which was Its real home and where Copernicus counted for little and Luther for tor nothing It has had a far tar longer life I and a far stronger hold bold and doubtless doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less has a wide vogue still sUll In Egypt India China Chinn and Chaldea It was the subject of ot elaborate study and hl high h honor almost from the dawn of his his- tory tort The special eminence of ot Chaldea In this department Is attested by the Bible when It tells us of ot Daniels Daniel's appointment by as master of t the magicians astrologers gers gem and soothsayers And It Is lea a probable conjecture that the wise wise men from the East wh followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed the star to Bethlehem some five centuries later ter were magi and astrologers from Chaldea If It after the lapse of ot 19 more centuries centuries cen cen- this strange hybrid of or science and superstition which flourished so vigorously under the clear skies of ot the plains of ot Shinar still retains much of ot Its Ito ancient power the fact Is not to be attributed solely to the conservatism of what till the last few years really was an unchanging East While In the West Vest religion has bas helped science to discredit astrology its hold upon the East has apparently apparently been strengthened by the great religious reformation Uon which now claims more than |