Astrology Egyptian, Roman, in the Middle Ages and Modern

The Egyptians and Chaldeans are the two people who are credited with having created the science of the stars. The cult of the Egyptian star (sun), which was derived from the cult of Osiris, was a Chaldean priests import Pharaohs were the followers of astrology, Chaldean priests. The god Thoth (Hermes of old) was conciderado as the founder of astrology in Egypt.

Astrology of ancient Greece: ancient astrological traditions found in the writings of Homer and Hesiod, and imported ideas from the Chaldeans and Egyptians prepared the spirit of the Greeks to accept the doctrines of astrology, which introduced the Chaldean by Berosus, were quickly spread by Thales, Pythagoras and Democritus.

It confused the astronomical knowledge and hypotheses with delusions of astrology. Astrology is not popular in Greece, up started the decline of their civilization. After the fall of the Assyrian Empire Babylonian priests of this country in large numbers took refuge in Greece , where reported and written with astrology predictions, losing carácterr of occult science, becoming so popular that Plato was forced to study it.

Aristotle distinguished the metedología or science of atmospheric phenomena. The Stoics in their eagerness to see everywhere manifestations of divinity, were active propagators of astrology.

All Greek astronomer was an astrologer. Hippocrates discusses the value of astrology in the healing and diagnosis of disease, it came to prevail over the real medicine, arriving at school Alejandía diagnose and treat disease in a purely astrological.

This city, the last refuge of science and Hellenic culture, was a center of astrologers, psychics and the occult growers who distinguished themselves by the extravagance of his theories.

Astrology of the Romans in the year 139 BC, was expelled from Italy to the Greek astrologers, but these persecutions, which gave the prestige of martyrs to the followers of astrology by Rome served to spread these doctrines, stimulating public curiosity. At the end of the Republic and early Empire was once again booming astrology, Cicero, though in his youth cultivated oriental astrology, the sentence in his book "Di Divinatione" but the Emperor Augustus had faith in it and protected astrologers.

Claudius Ptolemy was also an astrologer. The lower was the political and moral level of the Romans in the last centuries of the Empire, the greater was the authority and credit obtained astrology. After the death of Marcus Aurelius, astrologers dignitaries were again influential in the imperial court. In the fall of the Roman Empire and the triumph of Christianity, astrology lost much of its importance.

Astrology by the Christian emperors persecuted and condemned by the church, survived the fall of paganism and the empire, resurguir again strongest in the old, in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

From the Middle Ages to modern times: in the early Middle Ages the Jews and the Arabs were the repositories of the ancient astrological traditions and many of them made an art industry to raise a horoscope.

Astrologers and astronomers Arab-Jews followed the principle of Ptolemy's footsteps, but soon corrupted the doctrine of their master with their Talmudic mysticism and fatalism trend peculiar to the Semitic race. By the thirteenth century, astrology enjoyed the favor of the greats.

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, astrologers were used by kings and great lords, the service lasted until the seventeenth century. I invite you to visit the Digital Library www.magazineofsales.com, proven quality articles for your development personal and spiritual health, sports, entertainment, computing, languages, job prospects and more.