Ruled by the Heavens, A Case for Prophecy or A Fine Difference Between Prophecy, Prediction and Calculation
- From: Moderator <meldon57@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
The history of knowledge is a long one indeed. We tend to think of
early and pre-history as a period less relevant to understanding
modernity than we do to, for example, Greek, Roman or biblical
periods. Before civilizations had been formed, knowledge of the
heavens were either required before village agriculture or resulted
from village agriculture. An understanding of mathematics would either
be necessary for, or result from, knowledge of the previous two. We
were using astronomy and mathematics to understand "god" 2000 years
before the bible!
This close relationship between the ancient knowledge of mathematics
and astronomy has influenced religion for thousands of years. In his
1859 book The Hierophant or Gleanings From the Past, G.C. Stewart
makes a case for astronomy as a common link predating all writing,
shared by all cultures and the basis of all world religions.
The world religions have some common themes one being an apocalyptic
vision. Even the new world shared these visions as in the Mayan
calendar. At the risk of over-estimating ancient astronomy’s ability
to predict, a measurement could have been made that revealed a
terrifying future event in the same way a mathematical calculation is
also a prediction of a future event.
This has some interesting implications.
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