Bible Dictionary: Sciences: Astrology

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Isaiah 47:13
You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from these things that shall come on you.
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Paracelsus {13}
... and to the fame and wealth which might be got out of knowledge; who meddled with
vain dreams about the occult sciences, alchemy, astrology, magic, the cabala ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/paracelsus 13.htm

Pagans.
... They practise the mountebank sciences of astrology, divination, necromancy, and
animal magnetism, and keep for sale a liquid, which, they pretend, will confer ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/pagans.htm

The Silence of God
... called themselves "mathematicians," and thus seemed to borrow from the exact sciences
something of their solidity. Augustin often discussed astrology with a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/v the silence of god.htm

Introductory.
... study"how far it is serviceable; [2156] and of astrology, and mathematics, and magic,
and sorcery. For all the Greeks boast of these as the highest sciences. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter i introductory.htm

The First-Fruits of the Gentiles
... Possibly they were Persian magi, whose astronomy was half astrology and wholly
observation, or ... He is Lord of the sciences, as of all that belongs to man; and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the first-fruits of the gentiles.htm

The Confessions and Letters of St
... Most Experienced Men Could Persuade Him of the Vanity of Astrology to Which He ... Faustus
Was Indeed an Elegant Speaker, But Knew Nothing of the Liberal Sciences. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/the confessions and letters of st/

Homiletical.
... condition, [609] that he should not devote himself to any sciences whatsoever, but ...
of geometry, the discovery of the Egyptians, or of astrology, the favourite ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/basil/basil letters and select works/iv homiletical.htm

Editor's Preface
... But this is what must happen in all sciences in which there is a healthy ... know that
the Babylonians were given to the practice and study of astrology from the ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 1/editors preface.htm

The Writings of St. Augustin.
... rank, and has done greater service to the science of sciences than any ... as pantheistic
or dualistic at heart; he shook the superstitions of astrology and magic ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter iv the writings of st.htm

The Confessions of St. Augustin Index of Subjects
... were called mathematicians, [77]106 (note). Astrology, refutation of, [78]105,
[79]106. ... his ready understanding of the liberal arts, 77, and sciences, [123]77. ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/the confessions of st augustin.htm

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