Horus, or the Astrognostic Final Judgment

XI

Preface.

The text begins mid-sentence, continuing from the previous page's discussion of the zodiacal circle: the Lion, the Bull, the Aquarius, and the Scorpion. It is well known from the history of ancient astronomy original: "Sternkunde des Alterthums" and from the great Platonic Year A period of approximately 26,000 years in which the stars complete a full cycle due to the wobbling of the Earth’s axis that the ancients, even in the earliest centuries we know of, were aware of the aforementioned movement the precession of the equinoxes. Poets who utilized the four ages of the world a traditional Greek/Roman concept of human history declining from a Golden Age to an Iron Age, and who made use of those derived from the precession of the equinoxes the slow shift of the constellations relative to the seasons, began with the golden age. They then followed it with the silver, then the bronze, and finally the iron. This was because the Lion appeared yellow or golden; the Bull—namely that white bull into which Jupiter the Roman king of the gods, known as Zeus in Greek is said to have once transformed himself, and which indeed appears beautifully white in the sky—appeared white or silver; the old Egyptian water-bucket, or Canopus original: "Kanobus", a reference to an Egyptian deity often depicted as a jar, here associated with Aquarius, which is the Aquarius, appeared bronze; and finally, the Scorpion appeared black or iron.

Others, however, who created their four ages of the world from the four seasons, placed the silver first, then the golden, then the iron, and finally the bronze. They did this because they began counting with Spring, or the white Bull; then they named Summer, or the yellow Lion; then they proceeded to Autumn, which is the black, iron Scorpion; and they ended with Winter, or the bronze water-bucket.

Therefore, the first rider in the Apocalypse the Book of Revelation in the New Testament can very well ride a white horse, the second a red horse, the third a black horse, and the fourth a pale horse. The phrase: "A measure of wheat for a drachma an ancient Greek silver coin, three measures of barley for a drachma, and do no harm to the oil and wine," a reference to Revelation 6:6 thus fits perfectly with the fruit-