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KMT THE BEGINNING OF BEGINNING

About the origin of the Zodiac Should it be asked at what epoch this system (thezodiacal symbolism), took its birth, we shall answer on the testimony of themonuments of astronomy itself, that its principles appear with certainty to havebeen established about 17,000 years ago. And if it be asked to what people it is to

be attributed, we shall answer that the same monuments, supported by unanimoustraditions, attribute it to the first tribes of Egypt The Ruins of Empires, pp 120-123by C.F. Volney At the time of creation - man a mortal creature made in the imageof an immortal being was sent down to be an embellishment of the divine body of the Cosmos. Man was made to view the universe with awe and wonder, and tocome to know his maker. And God summoned all the gods in heaven, asking eachof them in turn; what can you provide for humanity who are about to be made?

Then the Sun said 'I will shine upon him in the day time, the Moon promised to givelight after. Saturn announced that he had already become father of Penal Justiceand Necessity. Jupiter begot peace for them so they would not be utterly destroyedby wars. Mars said he was already father of Struggle, Anger and Strife. Venusoffered Love, Pleasure and Laughter. Mercury offered Intelligence and Wisdom. Toman - as long as you were sinless you dwelt in the places nigh to heaven; but nowthat blame has come upon you, you have been condemned to imprisonment in theorgans of mortal bodies and must yourself dwell in the region assigned to them.. Inthat region, Desire and Necessity will be your masters; for it is they, after me, aremasters and captain of all things below. I will keep my eyes on you and, if thecharges against you be but slight, you shall be released from your deadly bondageof the flesh and freed from sorrow and you will greet again your home above.However if you shall be found guilty of any greater sins, when you quit your bodilyframes, you shall not dwell in heaven but you shall be transferred into the bodiesof beasts , and thence forth continue to wander upon earth. Souls imprisoned inbodies - began to quarrel among themselves; and the stronger men used theweaker as tools, and made them attack each other and array themselves in hostileranks, and make war on one another. And the strong tortured and slew thepowerless; and they enslaved the living, and cast out the dead unburied. Then theelements (which out of all things get their beginning and into which all things areresolved when they cease to be, paying a debt that must be paid) resolved topetition God: Hermetica / Scott p186.1. Fire "I am polluted; I am forced to consume human flesh, reveal thyself to theworld and put an end to human savagery.2. Air: "I am made turbid from the reek that rises form the corpses, so that I breedsickness and cease to be wholesome.3. Water: "O father self begotten and Maker of Nature, please give command thatmy streams be kept pure for the rivers and the seas are ever washing off thedefilement of the slayers, and receiving the corpses of the slain."4. Earth: "I am soaked through and through with the juices of rotting corpses, I amforced to contain beings unworthy of me."At first the planets (the heavenly gods complained saying that humanity haveinquisitive eyes, hear what they have no right to hear. 'They reach out withaudacious hands. They will drag up the roots of plants, and investigate theproperties of stones. They will dissect the lower animals - and one another also!

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They will seek to discover how it is that they are alive, and what is hidden. Theywill cut down the woods of their native land and sail across the sea to see what liesthere. They will dig mines and search the uttermost depths of the Earth. All thismight be bearable, but they will do much more. They will press on to explore theworld above, seeking by observation to discover the laws that govern themovement of the heavens.' Atum replied: I will build the Zodiac - a secretmechanism in the stars, linked to unerring and inevitable fate. The lives of menfrom birth to final destruction shall be controlled by the hidden workings of thismechanism.