Show astrologes HOLD ON EASTERN MIND astrology Astro losy alch Is us as clear clearly lyone one 0 of f the lie oldest of superstitions ns as astronomy tron oiny is tile oldest of tile sciences science 8 appears to have reached its climax in III tile west in fit tho fourteenth tint and fifteenth centuries when its postin position was one of great lionor bonor and I 1 importance in por talice in III the courts of tint nut tho the combined effect of the co per jernican nican astronomy tho the tion anti the was to sup its foundations and lifter after the middle of the seventeenth c century its decline ans rapid and unchecked in the east however which was its real home and here copernicus counted ca for little and luther for nothing it hils lillei it a far longer life and a far stronger hold and doubtless it 11 m wide ade vogue still in egypt 1 india 11 din china anti and chaldea it was the sit subject abject of elaborate study anti and high honor almost front from tile dawn of of history the special eminence of chaldea Cli aldea in III this department lg is attested by the bible when it tolls tells us its of Datil daniels els appointment by as master of the magicians astrolko gers Chal Clial deans dearig and soothsayers and it Is a probable conjecture that the wise men from froin the lie kast wilt wh followed the star to Bethle bethlehem hein some five centuries later inter were magi inagi and ar astrologers gers from aroi ll 11 Cli Clin ldoa aldea if after the lie lapso lapse of ia W more centuries this strange hybrid of science and superstition which nourished flourished so BO vigorously under the clear skies of the plains of shinar still stiff retains much of its ancient power the fact Is 19 not to be attributed solely to tile conservatism of what till the last few years really avns an unchanging east while in III the alia west religion lins fins helped science to discredit astrology its told hold upon the hast east lias has apparently been strengthened by tho great religious reformation which now claims more than adherents ants |