A Guide to Stellar Magic and Astrological Mysticism: A Magical Study Guide Vol 3

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Astrology connects, we know, with the study of the stars, their ellipses, and their relations and nodes. But what is there to say about the stars, especially in a time when technology could not aid science and astronomy as much as it can today? The stars are untouchable: you can see their light, maybe even bathe in it, and apparently nothing else. The admirers of the stars could not simply climb up to check those lights and where they come from or, more importantly, what they actually are. 

The stars once were and still remain food for thought and, mostly, for imagination. It is no surprise that the larger amount of myths throughout human cultures and religions spring from the observation of the sky, and when such myths start to relate among themselves, they start to form mythology. Mythology explores the logic and patterns with which myths interact, and astrology explores the logic behind the patterns formed by the stars (formations) in their exchange. If it would stop here, it would still be astronomy, but both mythology and astrology proceed to create a parallelism between the object of study and psychological or nervous phenomena and worldly events. 

The stars might also have fed the first muses of mysticism, for the hungering human, thirsty for mystery, cannot go up to them except by the transcendence of his own senses and faculties. 

In History, we have Sumerian records of a catalogue of omens, patterns that form in the hands or in the liver and that indicate such and such effect (such and such illness and demon). Likewise, the stars, being gods, were in Mesopotamia, examined in exactly the same way (starting with the eclipses), by the correspondence between observed patterns and observed phenomena.  

This methodology, at its root, is found in all branches of astrology, but astrology is not exact and terms and calculations vary with geography, which is to be expected, and with culture. Is there, then, not a unified and true beyond doubt form of astrology?

This book intends to answer this question. 

During the course of this book, the reader may come in contact with portions of text that remind him of the realms of pure fantasy. What there is to know about the science presented, is the difference Franz Bardon describes between The Practice of Magical Evocation, where the magician is working with the cosmic aspects via their personification, and The Key To True Quaballah, where the quabbalist is working with the cosmic aspects directly through formulas and attached meditations.  Astrology, in its most valid aspect, the astrology offered in this work, stands somewhere between the two.