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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
> Sun, moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Number and names
of
> days of the week = number and names of heavenly moving bodies,
each
> embedded in a translucent sphere, all within a fixed sphere
holding
> the fixed stars.
The WATCHERS which should not and dare not deviate from their course
lest the wrath of God.
The stargazers of the ancients did us good and compiled all those
frequencies of the movements of the heavenly bodies.
Coupled with this early practice of the scientific method is that
there were these seeming superstitions that once a star/comet/planet
or any celestial body fall of its track comes some bad omen.
Loreto