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Indeed a MUST HAVE for any advanced student of Biblical Astronomy.This book consists of many extensive informational charts and lists relating to the subject. While not the easiest read it is certainly a very valuable tool for the advanced student.

This book was a pioneering work by an English lady on the star constellations. This is a fascinating book of her notes and discoveries on the beliefs of early civilizations about the original 48 star constellations. The first constellation was The Virgin, sometimes referred to as "the virgin who will conceive." (Remember that Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.) The second constellation was sometimes called The Desire of Nations. It showed a young male child being held by the Virgin. The ancient Jews and Arabs said that the meaning of the original 48 constellations were explained by Enoch, and that they told the story of God's plan for mankind from beginning to end. This book is basically notes on the meaning of the constellations. If you like this book, there are others that you will also want to buy, that explain the "Gospel in the Stars" in more detail.

The essence of astrology is that there is "meaning" in the stars, e.g. that when Jupiter is in Leo, it means something. Other forms of divination presume to find meaning in other things in nature, e.g. that the arrangement of tea leaves or chicken entrails or the lines in one's palm have some esoteric meaning. These "Gospel in the Stars" books presume to find Biblical meaning in the constellations.

In our efforts to "prove all things, hold fast to that which is true," we should be very wary of the notion that a 19th century scholar, using Medieval sources, discovered an antedeluvian prophecy of Jesus in the constellations known to Aratus in 275 B.C. A reader seeking a Scriptural and scientific work on Biblical astronomy should instead read the 1908 work, "The Astronomy of the Bible" by noted solar astronmer E.W. Maunder.

Not so lang ago, this book - with two similar volumes, written by Joseph Seiss and Ethelbert Bullinger, resp. - would - together with its authors - have been burnt at the stake by the Church. Although the authors are devout Christians, who want to show that the Gospel story is "written in the sky" in the constellations of the Zodiac, everything that has to do with astrology - and astronomy, they would have burnt Galileo too had they been given the chance - is considered "heresy" by the Church, just because it might bring people up to ideas. And what are these ideas that the Church is so afraid of? That the stories involving the constellations of the Zodiac were around centuries before Christianity? And that Christianity has simply hijacked these stories, mixed them up with some Greek philosophy, anti-semitism and hatred of women, pasted it all hastily - in order to head off more sophisticated creeds like Judaism and Islam - together (in the 15th century AD) to an incomprehensible heap of hooey, and sold it as "the greatest story ever told", which people were forced to believe on pain of gruesome torture and excecution. And up to this very day the crap is proclaimed from the pulpit!
Since burning at the stake is now no longer allowed, these books are now simply "silenced to death", and - were it not for amazon.com and the Internet - would be gathering dust - with so many other intelligent works that bring out the real truth about the origins of Christianity - on a long-forgotten bookshelf in an antiquity shop.