"Part Two: Apocalypse" is a seminar he presented in 1996. A wonderful historian himself, he also recommends many other books for study. Nick Campion's seminar is accessible as well as educational. (Duns Scotus, who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote: "The stars incline the will but in no wise necessitate it.")Īstrologers can gain a great deal from understanding our history. He writes "Astrology has always been very much to do with developing freedom of choice." The medieval astrologer, for instance (perhaps surprisingly), understood the concept of choice medieval astrology was not at all fatalistic. The question of free will is one astrological theme that Campion traces throughout time. There are stories and anecdotes throughout, and the author demonstrates the true historian's view that ".when we look at the history of astrology, we are very much talking about matters which are directly relevant to the present." The author recounts astrology's history from Mesopotamia through classical Greece, Rome, medieval times, the Renaissance, and the modern world, in a highly engaging discourse. Many forms of divination arose in Babylon as a way to find out what the future held in store, and by 800 B.C.E., astrology was the most important of these. Writing about astrology's beginnings, Campion notes that conditions were very unstable in in Mesopotamia (the geographic region of the Babylonian empires) the Tigris and Euphrates flooded erratically, and the region had no natural defences. The History of Astrology covers 4,000 years and is (luckily) the longest section in the book. Part One of Nick Campion's new book, Astrology, History and Apocalypse, was presented as a seminar in 1992. Review by Mary Plumb- The Mountain Astrologer Every student of astrology can benefit from an understanding of astrology's application to historical cycles, and its inextricable links with those visions of the destiny of the world which still dominate, albeit unconsciously, the ways in which we approach the future. ![]() The millennarian world-view has not left us, and the fascination and panic surrounding the eclipse of August 1999, the dawn of the year 2000, and the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in May 2000 reflect our continuing preoccupation with celestial events and their portents. In its earliest form, astrology was employed not for the individual, but for the state and its ruler, indicating times of triumph and defeat, flowering and disaster. ![]() Human beings have always been preoccupied with whether and when the world will end, now no less than in Babylonian and medieval times. The seminars included in this fascinating volume deal with the theme of astrology's use as a tool of global prediction over the centuries especially as part of a religious vision of the "end of days".
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