It will be seen from the above, that while the Pagans located in the sun and planets only the inferior powers of Nature, the representative Spirits, so to say, of Apollo, Bacchus, Osiris, and other solar gods, the Christians, in their hatred of Philosophy, appropriated the sidereal localities, and now limit them to the use of their anthropomorphic deity and his angels—new transformations of the old, old gods. Something had to be done in order to dispose of the ancient tenants, so they were disgraced into “demons,” wicked devils. SECTION XXXVI. PAGAN SIDEREAL WORSHIP, OR ASTROLOGY. The Teraphim of Abram’s father _Terah_, the “maker of images,” and the Kabiri Gods are directly connected with ancient Sabæan worship or Astrolatry. Kiyun, or the God Kivan, worshipped by the Jews in the wilderness, is Saturn and Shiva, later on called Jehovah. Astrology existed before astronomy, and _Astronomus_ was the title of the highest hierophant in Egypt.(604) One of the names of the Jewish Jehovah, “Sabaoth,” or the “Lord of Hosts” (_tsabaoth_), belongs to the Chaldæan Sabæans (or _Tsabæans_), and has for its root the word _tsab_, meaning a “car,” a “ship,” and “an army”; sabaoth thus meaning literally the _army of the ship_, the _crew_, or a _naval host_, the sky being metaphorically referred to as the “upper ocean” in the doctrine. In his interesting volumes, _The God of Moses_, Lacour explains that all such words as The celestial armies or the hosts of heaven, signify not only the totality of the heavenly constellations, but also the Aleim on whom they are dependent; the _aleitzbaout_ are the forces or _souls_ of the constellations, the potencies that maintain and guide the planets in this order and procession; ... the Jae‐va‐ Tzbaout signifies Him, the supreme chief of those celestial bodies. In his collectivity, as the chief “Order of Spirits,” not a chief Spirit. The Sabæans having worshipped in the _graven_ images only the celestial hosts—angels and gods whose habitations were the planets, never in truth worshipped the stars. For on Plato’s authority, we know that among the stars and constellations, the planets alone had a right to the title of _theoi_ (Gods), as that name was derived from the verb θεῖν, to run or to circulate. Seldenus also tells us that they were likewise called θεοὶ βουλαιοὶ (God‐Councillors) and ῥαβδοφόροι (_lictors_) as they (the planets) were present at the sun’s consistory, _solis consistoris adstantes_. Says the learned Kircher: The sceptres the seven presiding angels were armed with, explain these names of Rhabdophores and lictors given to them.