Horus, or the Astrognostic Final Judgment

XII

Preface.

rich autumn, and on the equitable distribution of the food supplied by the autumn in that land where the Zodiac the belt of the heavens divided into twelve signs was first divided into the known constellations. I request my readers to incorporate this small correction while reading the book.

You will also not be mistaken if you derive the Angel Gabriel, who likewise appears often in this book, from Mercury the Roman messenger god; the author suggests that Gabriel's role as a divine messenger in the Bible is an adaptation of Mercury's role in mythology, or equate him with him.

Regarding the prophecies of the Messiah The "Anointed One" promised in Jewish scripture; the author aims to provide a naturalistic rather than purely theological explanation for these predictions, I have not been permitted to engage in philological investigations because my book is intended to be a reader's book, not a reference work for exegetes scholars who specialize in the critical interpretation of religious texts. However, if it is believed that my explanations do not correspond to the sense of the text, I am willing to write a commentary on it and clearly demonstrate that the entire language of the prophets is exactly the language of the ancient astrologers, and owes its origin solely to the observers of the heavens. Then I will clearly show that all folk religions basically flow entirely from a common source: from the ancient observations of celestial and natural events. Heaven and nature are those great books in which all nations, where culture began to awaken, have read—and still read—almost entirely the same events from the beginning. To be sure, these events appeared in one garment for one nation and in another for another. To be sure, the arrogant priestsoriginal: "Sacerdoten", a Latin term for priests often used here to imply a professional or elite religious class clothed those ancient observations of heaven and nature