Isaiah knew the Lord to be He that "frustrateth the tokens of the liars and maketh diviners mad." And the word of the Lord to Israel through Jeremiah was-- "Thus saith the Lord. Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them." It is to our shame that even to-day, in spite of all our enlightenment and scientific advances, astrology still has a hold upon multitudes. Astrological almanacs and treatises are sold by the tens of thousands, and astrological superstitions are still current. "The star of the god Chiun" is not indeed openly worshipped; but Saturn is still looked upon as the planet bringing such diseases as "toothache, agues, and all that proceeds from cold, consumption, the spleen particularly, and the bones, rheumatic gouts, jaundice, dropsy, and all complaints arising from fear, apoplexies, etc."; and charms made of Saturn's metal, lead, are still worn upon Saturn's finger, in the belief that these will ward off the threatened evil; a tradition of the time when by so doing the wearers would have proclaimed themselves votaries of the god, and therefore under his protection. Astrology is inevitably linked with heathenism, and both shut up spirit and mind against the knowledge of God Himself, which is religion; and against the knowledge of His works, which is science. And though a man may be religious without being scientific, or scientific without being religious, religion and science alike both rest on one and the same basis--the belief in "One God, Maker of heaven and earth." That belief was the reason why Israel of old, so far as it was faithful to it, was free from the superstitions of astrology. "It is no small honour for this nation to have been wise enough to see the inanity of this and all other forms of divination. . . . Of what other ancient civilized nation could as much be said?"[145:1] FOOTNOTES: [136:1] R. A. Proctor, _The Great Pyramid_, pp. 274-276. [139:1] G. V. Schiaparelli, _Astronomy in the Old Testament_, p. 137. [145:1] G. V. Schiaparelli, _Astronomy in the Old Testament_, p. 52. [Illustration: _By permission of the Autotype Co._ _74, New Oxford Street, London, W.C._ ST. PAUL PREACHING AT ATHENS (_by Raphael_). "As certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring."] BOOK II THE CONSTELLATIONS CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE CONSTELLATIONS The age of Classical astronomy began with the labours of Eudoxus and others, about four centuries before the Christian Era, but there was an Earlier astronomy whose chief feature was the arrangement of the stars into constellations.