Horus, or the Astrognostic Final Judgment

XII

Preface.

...rich autumn, and to the equitable distribution of food that autumn provides in the land where the Zodiac original: Thierkreis was first divided into the known constellations. I ask my readers to keep this minor correction in mind 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, or equate him with him.

Regarding the prophecies of the Messiah, I have not permitted myself to engage in philological investigations because my book is intended to be a reader, not a reference work for exegetes original: Exegeten; scholars who specialize in the critical interpretation of religious texts. Should it be believed, however, that my explanations do not correspond to the sense of the text, I am willing to write a commentary on it and clearly show 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 Volksreligionen|religions practiced by the general populace as part of their culture and traditions, as opposed to institutionalized or "high" theology fundamentally flow from a common source: from 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 very beginning. Admittedly, these events appeared in one garment for one nation, and in a different one for another. To be sure, the haughty priests original: Sacerdoten; a Latin term for priests, used here to suggest an elite or exclusionary religious class clothed those ancient observations of heaven and nature