Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

EDITORIAL .
. The Esoteric Fraternity is beginning to reach a state of unfoldment
which will enable us to enter upon the enormous work
of resurrecting the ancient sciences. .Modern Astronomy has
wondered how it was possible for the ancients to ascertain cer-·
tain facts in the science which only the most powerful tele."
scopes have revealed to our age, fo1· they possessed none of
these instrumentalities. Of course Astrology has loug been
discredited as a seience, but we are thoroughly satisfied that it
was once as SA.lcurate as any of the sciences of the present day,
and there are now thousands becoming convinced of this fact.
A member of our FraterDity is engaged in gathet·iug aud.
fOJ•mulating certain basic truths relative to the influence of the.
heavenly bodies, whieh convinces us that, while they are entit·ely
new to the world to-day, yet they were undet·stond by-Mhall .
w.e not say '?-a p•·ehistoriC people; for surely we have no record
of the discovery of the sign11 of the zotli:w, of the origin of the
sy~bols uf the qualities of the diffet·eut Kigoi'l, of the m·iginatot·a
of the system calletl A>~tt·ology. atul. fnrthet• than 1•e•·taiu arbita·ary
faets and formnl:\, that !I,Ystem, as an intelligi hie science,
hall been l11Kt tn the wm·M. Even the Mtlieawe of mnsie as it
Wit.!! known to the andeuts ha.s been lost to \1'1, llistcli'Y has
lit·ought tlow n a vet·y aJH!it>ut st·Hlt>, hut. it. gives t•u l'lll'