Origin of HISTORY

Mankind has the ability to record memory and create history which has enabled him to develop the concept of growth toward goals. As Santayana said, "He who refuses to learn from history is doomed to repeat it." If there is not history and no way to pass this history on to the next generation then we can not talk in terms experiencing 100 years of history; we would be dealing with one year of experience, repeated 100 times!

But as soon as men developed the ability to pass memory from generation to generation, history was born, And as soon as history was born, man was able to grope toward maturity in many different areas of experience. Hunting was improved, agriculture was invented, social groups where created, families were sanctified, nations were organized. The more man remembered, the more there was to learn. Mankind treated itself to the vast spectacles of the agricultural societies of the river deltas - Ur of the Chaldees at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Dynasties of Egypt along the Nile, the Vedic civilization along the Ganges and the Jumna. And yet, of all these great civilizations, none provided an integrating unity for man, universe, and God until Abraham appeared on the scene at approximately the end of the third millennium B.C.E.. Buddha appeared in the middle of the sixth century BCE to lead the Vedic civilization in its yearning quest for unity. Abraham's lead was directed toward an understanding of the unity of man and universe with reference to the availability of a Creator-god. Buddha's lead was directed toward an understanding of unity of man with a universe in a non deistic interrelationship which based its morality on karma and nirvana. Other than these two great yearning directions, no other solutions to the searching of the soul were ever developed which were not in some way rooted in and derived from Judaism or Buddhism, or both.

For this reason our ongoing discussion of the relationship of Astrology to the Bible and other historicolegal and historiceothical sources of Judaism takes on its importance. For when we speck of Jewish law, of Halachah which literally means, "the way to go," we must ask ourselves, "The way to go where?" What is it what we seek, and why do we week it?
What we seek, "the way we go," the way to search out, the goal of our yearning is also the source of our being, In Judaism, as also in its daughter religions Christianity and Islam, our end is to find our beginning. We search for not less that unity with the Universe/God
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In passing, it is not uninteresting to note that the two greatest expressions of man's common yearnings -Judaism and Buddhism- are the very two religions in which Astrology plays a major role.


The ancient astrologers used the actual observance of the planets as the planets transited the constellations of the Heavens at the time of birth as seen from the place of birth. They were also able to calculate the Moon cycles and future planetary positions for the purposes of making predictions They worked with constellations not with "signs"


The first book in Jewish tradition which linked Astrology directly to the mystical vector was written curing Talmudic times, in the third century of the common Era. It matched the planets, constellations and elements to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and to the Paths of Wisdom which linked the 10 Divine Emanations (10 Sephirot) into a Tree of Life. This book is Sefer Yetsirah, "the book  of Formation"..
The 12 constellations were linked to the 12 letters of the Hebrew alphabet which had a constant pronunciation, whereas the 7 planets were linked to the 7 letters of the Hebrew alphabet which had double pronunciations. Astrologers thought each planet had capabilities for both good and evil, whereas they thought of the constellations as having constant forces, which  varied only as the planets transited them, and took on positive and negative vibrations. And since each letter of the Hebrew alphabet represented an esoteric tool used by God in the creation of the Universe, its influence had to extend from Diving will through time, space and man. This concept explains the influences of the planets on the life of man and on the lives of every growing thing.

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