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COSMOLOGY ARTICLESASTROLOGICAL GENERALITIES - Astrology is defined as the study of heavenly cycles and cosmic events as they are reflected in our earthly environment. And Astrology is as old as measured time. For thousands of years man has recorded the relationships and patterns between the planets and the earth... ASTROLOGY AND THE END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR - The End of the Mayan Calendar is scheduled for December 21, 2012 . The possibilities of what this "end" might mean is an increasingly hot topic on the Internet, in conferences, printed articles, and in discussions all over the globe... ASTROLOGY DICTIONARY - Many people think that astrology is a secret language. And in a way it is! It's full of symbols and calculations and mystery...which can make it both exciting and confusing. But it's like any other language — once you begin to learn it, it starts to make sense... CELTIC ANIMAL BIRTH SIGNS - Date of Birth: December 24 - January 20 Animal: Stag Gaelic Name: Damh (Approximate pronunciation: Dav) Ruling Planet: The Sun Key Words: Independence, Majesty, Integrity, Pride Gift Quality or Ability: Sensitivity to other worlds, shape shifting, initiation, journeying Birthstone: Crystal Compatibility... ESOTERIC COSMOLOGY - Esoteric cosmology is cosmology that is an intrinsic part of an esoteric or occult system of thought. It almost always deals with at least some of the following themes: emanation, involution, evolution, epigenesis, planes of existence or higher worlds (and their emanation and the connections between them), hierarchies of spiritual beings, cosmic cycles... GNOSTICISM - Gnosticism (from Greek gnosis, knowledge) is a term created by modern scholars to describe a diverse religious movement often associated with Christianity, although textual evidence for the movement contains distinctly non- and anti-Christian elements, as well as anti-Judaic elements... KABBALAH - Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, Tiberian: qabːɔˈlɔh, Qabbālāh, Israeli: Kabala) literally means "receiving", in the sense of a "received tradition", and is sometimes transliterated as Cabala, Kabbala, Qabalah, or other permutations... NEOPLATONISM - Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. The term was first coined by Thomas Taylor in his translation of Plotinus' Enneads... ORIGIN OF JEWISH MYSTICISM - According to adherents of Kabbalah, the origin of Kabbalah begins with secrets that God revealed to Adam. According to a rabbinic midrash God created the universe through the ten sefirot... THE CHINESE HOROSCOPE - The Chinese have named years after animals for thousands of years... THE HUMAN SOUL IN KABBALAH - The Zohar posits that the human soul has three elements, the nefesh, ru'ach, and neshamah (image). The nefesh is found in all humans, and enters the physical body at birth. It is the source of one's physical and psychological nature... WHO WAS MAX HEINDEL? - Max Heindel - born Carl Louis von Grasshoff in Aarhus, Denmark on July 23, 1865 - was a Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic. He died on January 6, 1919 at Oceanside, California, United States. Among the students of his teachings, he is said to be the greatest western mystic of the twentieth century... WHO WAS MAX THEON? - Max Theon (1848-1927) perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, was a Polish Jewish Kabbalist and Occultist. In London while still a young man, he established The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1870, but seemed to have little to do with the day to day running of the organisation, or indeed its actual teachings (Chanel et al, Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor... ZODIAC CORRESPONDENCES - All about Zodiac
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