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126 . OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
is why astrology is more religion than science. In a religion you
are supposed to believe, not to ask questions or search for the
truth, and today's modem astrology is not based, as it should be,
on data derived from the stars or the planets, but on ingrained
conventions that are interpreted differently by different astrologers
at different moments.
The ancient Egyptians, who were great astronomers and in
their day constructed the world's largest observatory, noticed
that our sun moves slowly but surely among the stars by one degree
every seventy-two years and therefore could not be trusted
as a stable point of reference. This is why they chose the star
Sirius instead and calculated their calendar and all their astronomical
or astrological cycles by the apparent motions of the
sun, moon, and planets in relation to the fixed position of Sirius.
This is the most efficient and logical system ever devised and superior
to any system used today.
But these arguments alone do not prove that astrology is just a
hoax, as the majority of the scientific world assumes. It is nevertheless
not only possible but most probable that modem asti*ology
is based on faulty or totally false assumptions, even though
it is
true that the influence of the sun, the moon, and the planets
do have a part in everything that happens on our planet as has
been proven in hundreds of scientific experiments. Which reminds
us once more that our ancestors, who grasped this tens of
thousands of years ago, were not quite as dumb as is generally
thought and that indeed this knowledge, too, was given to them
long ago by the same astronauts who brought about the sudden
leap forward in our evolution.
Since it is evident that stars influence mankind, it is not only
quite possible but very probable that they also influence each individual
and that astrology could be made into an exact science
if all the correlations of cause and effect could be determined
scientifically, precisely and correctly. Considering the fantastic
possibilities that have been given us by the electronic brain and
the magnetic memory, a rational reorganization of astrology
would not require too much time.
All of us have our good and bad periods. Sometimes we can
work twelve hours a day and not feel tired while on other days
we have no wish to exert ourselves at all. Also, we all know how