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Перевод: astrology

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астрология

Тезаурус:

1. Astrology provides another origin for the New Age.
2. It was during this period that horoscopic astrology was invented, probably in the fifth century BC.
3. If astrology was limited to the latest fad of providing newspaper horoscopes for the family's "pampered pooch", it would be comical.
4. This would not be the case if astrology worked.
5. Other features of Gnosticism especially objectionable to orthodox teachers were the radical dualism of spirit and matter, the determinism which assured a small elect minority of salvation with everyone else being predestined to annihilation, perhaps worse, and the tendency to merge myths and cults, incorporating a few Christian elements with adaptations of Mithraism, astrology, magical spells, and anything else lying to hand.
6. Both the older judicial astrology and the later horoscopic astrology were based on a fundamentally deterministic, or fatalistic, view of existence.
7. It is possible that the motive was astrological and that the invention of horoscopic astrology at about this time was due to the influence of Iranian doctrines of the immortality and celestial origin of the soul.
8. In Hellenistic and Roman times the Chaldeans, as the Babylonians were called, came to be regarded as the great experts in astrology.
9. Since Fate was the power that kept order in the universe, as revealed particularly by the stars and planets, the prevalence of Stoicism influenced the growing belief in astrology in Hellenistic times and in the days of the Roman empire.
10. The only thing that can be said for astrology is that it makes money for those who write and publish horoscopes, despite being wrong on most occasions.
11. Christianity in the early days had little effect on the popularity of astrology.
12. Beyond which, a disbeliever in astrology can find quite other ways of categorising artists.