Occult Astrology Predates Modern Astronomy

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Planetary Rounds and Globes Series · 17 pages

Seventeen pages opened by an abstract and train of thoughts listing each claim with its page number, so the study can be used as a reference as well as read straight through.

The opening claim is historical and simply put: astrology existed before astronomy, and Astronomus was the title of the highest hierophant in Egypt. A point of vocabulary follows — that among the stars and constellations only the planets had a right to the title Theoi, gods, the word meaning to run or to circulate. The identification pressed hardest is that the angels worshipped in the Church of Rome are none other than the seven planets, the Dhyani-Chohans of Buddhist esoteric philosophy, or the Kumaras, the mind-born sons of Brahmā. Those are described in detail: seven in number, four exoteric and three secret, all virgin gods who remain eternally pure and decline to create progeny, and who in their primitive aspect are not regents of the planets at all but dwell far beyond the planetary region. Michael, called the invincible virgin combatant because he refused to create, is connected to the Kumara who is god of war and called the eternal celibate — the Aryan St Michael. The Seven Rectors, the planets including the sun, are then presented as co-workers of the Unknown, commissioned by the Demiourgos to create and contain the cosmos, representing the circle of the celestial worlds. The later pages assemble physical evidence for how seriously the ancients took this: the sidereal court of the Babylonian heaven represented in temples by globes of sapphire supporting golden images of their gods, and an immense machine built for King Chosroes in Persia representing the night sky with the planets, their revolutions and the angels presiding over them. The study ends on the boldest claim of all — that every discovery of modern astronomy, and every secret it may yet reveal, was contained in the secret observatories and initiation halls of old India and Egypt — and on a mystery planet which the ancients never named, which only the highest hierophant could confabulate with, and which was not the sun but a hidden divine hierophant said to wear a crown embracing seventy-seven smaller wheels.

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