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    This document discusses the origins of religion and how astronomy and astrology were originally connected. It claims that early religions were based on the astronomical observations and theories of wise men from Central Asia who personified the forces of nature, including the stars, and created allegorical stories to explain natural phenomena which became religious scriptures over time. While modern astronomy has replaced older systems, the core dogmas of religion originated from these ancient nature-based beliefs and stories involving personified stars, planets and other astronomical objects.

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    This document discusses the origins of religion and how astronomy and astrology were originally connected. It claims that early religions were based on the astronomical observations and theories of wise men from Central Asia who personified the forces of nature, including the stars, and created allegorical stories to explain natural phenomena which became religious scriptures over time. While modern astronomy has replaced older systems, the core dogmas of religion originated from these ancient nature-based beliefs and stories involving personified stars, planets and other astronomical objects.

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    In an article, entitled "Then and Now," published in the December number, 1890,

    of "The Arena," its author, a distinguished Unitarian D.D. of Boston, Mass., says.
    "Astronomy has shattered the fallacies of Astrology; and people have found out
    that the stars are minding their own business instead of meddling with theirs."
    Now, while it is true that modern Astronomy has superseded the ancient system,
    and people have
    ceased to believe that the stars are intervening in mundane affairs, nothing could be
    further from the truth than the assertion that "Astronomy has shattered the fallacies
    of Astrology; and those of our readers who will accord to this work an
    unprejudiced perusal can hardly fail to be convinced that a large majority of the
    people of Christendom are dominated as much by these fallacies as were our Pagan
    ancestry— the only difference being a change of name. The dogmatic element of
    religion, which
    was anciently designated as Astrology, is now known as Theology.
    All the evidences bearing upon the subject indicate that the founders of the
    primary form of religion were a sect of philosophers, known as Magi, or wise men,
    of the Aryan race of Central Asia, who, having lived ages before any conceptions
    of the supernatural had obtained in the world, and speculating relative to the
    "beginnings of things," were necessarily confined to the contemplation and study
    of nature, the elements of which they believed to be self-existent and endless in
    duration; but, being
    wholly without knowledge of her inherent forces, they explained her manifold
    processes by conceiving the idea that she was animated by a great and inherent
    soul or spirit, emanations from which impressed all her parts with life and motion.
    Thus, endowing man, and other animals, with souls emanating alike from the
    imaginary great soul of nature, they believed, and taught, that immediately after
    death all souls
    were absorbed into their source, where, as "the dewdrop slips into the shining sea,"
    all personal identity was forever lost. Hence we see that although recognizing the
    soul as immortal, considering it, not as an entity existing independent of matter,
    but as the spirit of matter itself, the primary religion was the exponent of the purest
    form of Materialism.
    Being the Astronomers of their day, and mistaking the apparent for the real, the
    ancient Magi constructed that erroneous system of nature known as the Geocentric,
    and, in conformity thereto, composed a collection of Astronomical Allegories, in
    which the emanations from the imaginary great soul of nature, by which they
    believed all materialities we're impressed with life and motion, were personified
    and made to play their respective parts. Basing the religion they instituted upon
    their system of Allegorical Astronomy, and making its personifications the objects
    of worship, they thus originated the anthropomorphic or man-like Gods, and,
    claiming to have composed them under the inspiration of these self same divinities,
    they designated them as sacred records, or Scriptures, and taught the ignorant
    masses that
    they were literal histories, and their personifications real personages, who, having
    once lived upon earth, and; for the good of mankind, performed the wondrous
    works imputed to them, were then in heaven whence they came.
    Thus we see that the primary religion, which is popularly known as Paganism, was
    founded in the worship of personified nature; that, according special homage to the
    imaginary genii of the stars, and inculcating supreme adoration to the divinity
    supposed to reside in the sun, it was anciently known by the general name of
    Astrolatry, and by the more specific one of solar worship; and that its founders,
    arrogating to themselves the title of Astrologers, gave to its dogmatic element the
    name of Astrology.

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