The Astrology of Time and The Plato Perspective - The Mountain Astrologer
In the Socratic dialogue Timaeus, which is really more of an inarguable monologue, Plato explains the origins of the universe. The dialogue is remarkably sympathetic to astrology. Plato considered the planets to be the first born thoughts of God. In Timaeus, he believes when the Demiurge or Being responsible for creation was framing the universe He put intelligence in soul and soul in body so the world could become a living being endowed with soul and intelligence by His providence. Not just our world but all the planets in the solar system, about which Timaeus advises, “God invented and gave us sight to the end that we might behold the courses of intelligence in the heaven and apply them to the course of our own intelligence which are akin to them.” A beautiful definition and endorsement of astrology. (1) This was not biblical “ex nilhilo,” willed out-of-nothing kind of creation though. The Demiurge fashioned the cosmos from the four elements which were already available to Him, altho
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