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The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism [1911] - Get a Free Blog

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ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC. 195<br />

would never have been started or persisted <strong>in</strong> for the<br />

sake of a dis<strong>in</strong>terested love of truth. <strong>The</strong> observa<br />

tions, collected with untir<strong>in</strong>g patience by the <strong>Oriental</strong><br />

priests, caused the first physical and astronomical dis<br />

coveries, and, as <strong>in</strong> the time of the scholastics, the<br />

occult sciences led to the exact ones. But when these<br />

understood the vanity of the astound<strong>in</strong>g illusions on<br />

which astrology and magic had subsisted, they broke<br />

up the foundation of the arts to which they owed their<br />

birth.

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