Show ASTROLOGY'S HOLDON HOLD HOLDON HOLDON ON EASTERN MIND I I Astrology whIch Is Js as clearly one of the oldest of superstitions as astronomy astronomy as ng- Is the oldest of the sciences appears to have reached its climax In the West Yest In the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries when hen its posItIon position position tion was one of great honor and importance im Jm- importance In tilt tho courts of or Europe But the combined effect of the Copernican Co- Co astronomy the Reformation Reforma Reforma- tion and the tho Renaissance was to sap its foundations and after the middle of the Seventeenth century Its decline was vas rapid and unchecked In the East however which was its real home and where Copernicus counted for little and Luther for tor nothing it has hai had hod a n far tar longer life and a far tar stronger hold and doubtless doubtless doubtless doubt doubt- less has a n wide vogue still In Eg Egypt pt India IndIn China Chino and Chaldea it Jt was the subject of elaborate study and high honor almost from the dawn of his its tory tort The special eminence of Chaldea In this department is attested b by the Bible when it tells teUs us of Daniels Daniel's appointment b by as ns master of the magicians astrologers astrologers gers and soothsayers And it is a n probable conjecture that the wise men from the East win follow followed followed fol fol- fol- fol low lowed ed the star to Bethlehem some five centuries later were magi and astrologers from Chaldea If It after the tile lapse of 19 more centuries centuries centuries cen cen- this strange hybrid of s science and superstition which flourished so soI vigorously I under the clear skies of the plains of Shinar still retains much of Its itc ancient power PO the fact is not to be attributed solely saleh to the conservatism conser of what till the Oie last few years really was an unchanging East Enst While in the West cst religion has helped science to discredit astrology its hold upon the East Enst has hns apparently apparently been strengthened by the great religious reformation which now claims more than Man began his mental emancipation tion b by doub doubting ing a graven image and now it is hard to get him to believe belle anything |