DANIEL, MASTER OF MAGICIANS

DANIEL, Master of Magicians

(by Paul Foster Case)

Materialists, infidels and atheists may scoff at astrology as much rhey please. No person who pretends to accept the Bible as his rule and guide in faith and practice can possibly deny the validity of the ancient art without betraying either his ignorance of the Scriptues he affects to believe , or else the hollow insincerity of his pose of reverence.

The fundamental principles of astrolgy are explicity stated in Holy Writ.
The astrological point of view is implied in muech Biblical teaching. Passage after passage in both Testaments is unintelligible unless one uses the key of astrolgy to unlock their meaning

The 14th verse of the first chapter of Genesis speaks of the lights of heaven as being for signs, and Hebrew orginal shows clearly that these signs are more than mere indicators of time-periods.
They mark out the destiniies of man

The 19th Psalm begins: "The heavens declare the glory of God" and the fourth verse, in the Authorized Versionm is translated: "Their line is gone out through the earth, and their words to the end of the world"
A better rendering, truer to the spirit of the orginal Hebrew, would be: "Their rule extends through all the earth, and their commands to the end of the world"

That is to say, the ruler or order of the heavenly spaces permeates the entire field of terrestrial activity. This is the first premise of astrology.
Furthermore, many Rabbinical interpreters tell us that the noun translated "line" in the King James Version, which I have rendered "rule" signifies the power, running throught the whole universe, which gives shape and form to thing.

We must never forget that the literal translation of the words so often on Jesus´lips, "The kingdom of heaven" is actually "The rule of the heaven"
The phrase occurs again and again, and one need only study Jésus´parables of kingdom to see clearly two things: First- That the kingdom of heavens is not a future state, following death; Second-That it is not a political realm, as some have fondly and foolishly imagined.
On the contrary, it is an order, a rule, perfectly manifested in the stellar that this same rule and order be manifested upon the earth

In the vision of Ezekiel, recorded in the first chapter of his prophecy, are four living creatures, every one having four faces, which were the face of a man, the face of a lion, the face of an ox, and the face of an eagle.
These four are also decribed in the fourth chapter of Revelation.
The representations of these four were on the standards of four tribes of Israel.

The standard of Judah bore a lion, that of Dan an eagle, that of Ephraim an ox, and that of Manasseh an man. All this is purely astrological.
The lion, eagle, man and ox are the representatives of four fixed signs of the zodiac: Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus.
Scorpio is represented by an eagle because the extra-zodiacal constellation Aquila, the eagle, rise the same time as Scorpio.
Leo the fixed sign of the fire triplicity is, in the Qabalah, associated with the first letter of the divine name IHVH.
Scorpio, the fixed sign of the water triiplicity, is associated with the second letter, Aquarius, fixed sign of airy triplicity, is connected with the third letter, and Taurus, the fixed sign of earth is assigned to the last letter.

In this connection it should be noted that Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius and Taurus are the 5th, 8th, 11th and 2nd signs of the zodiac, and the sum of the numbers indicating their positions in the zodiacal series, 6, 8, 11, and 2 is 26, the sum of the values of the four letters composing the name IHVH.

The twelve tribes of Israel are also the representatives of the twelve signs of the zodiac, though there has been much confusion as the correct arrangement of the signs in relation to the tribes.
Thus the stones in the high-priests breastplate must also related to the signs of the zodiac.
And so must the gates and foundations of the New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation

These are about a few of the astrolgical allusion in the Bible, founf all the way from Genesis to Revelation.
But we do not have to depend upon allusions and interpretations for our certainty that astroligical philosophy is to be found in Scripture

The 20th verse of the 5th chapter of Judges gives us a clear, definite statement, about which there can be no question.
It says: "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera"
Here the noun translated "courses" is that which in later Hebrew literature invariably designates the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The same noun is used in Proverbs 16:17 to indicate the course of human destiny, in the setence: "The highway of the upright is to depart from evil" where the noun translated "highway" is Masloth the same as that translated "courses" in the quotation from Judges.


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The 20th verse of the 5th chapter of Judges

"The stars in their courses fought against Sisera"

Sisera was by no means upright. He was a tyrant, seeking to enslave the Israelites. The stars of the zodiac fought against him because the heavenly order is, as St. James tells us, a perfect law of liberty

Similary, the name Jesus, which is the numerical equivalent of the phrase "The heavens declare the glory of God", signifies literally, "The nature of Reality is to set free"
Consequently, the upright, who harmonize their lives with the order of the skies, find that order like a great highway, enabling them to depart from evil.

For astrology is sadly misunderstood if it be throught to be concerned with the irrevocable decrees of fate
The highway of the upright is the wise man´s co-operation with the cosmic forces whose ebb and flow is marked by the changing configurations of the heavens.

To be ignorant of the stellar influences is to be bound by that ignorance, as are all self-willed tyrants, of whom Sisera is a type

To know the courses of the stars is to be able, at all times, to utilize their influences constructively, and so to depart from the bondage ofchance, self-will and evil into a perfect freedom of those who make obedience to the heavenly order the basis of their thought and action

The Bible, however, contains stronger evidence in the favor of astrology than any I have yet cited. One whole book of the Old Testament was written by a man who held the office of chief astrologer at the Babylonian court, under Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, and continued in that office until the first year of the reign of Cyrus

This man was Daniel. His very name has an astrological flavor. Astrologers call the analytical and predictive part of their work the judgement of the horoscope, and Daniel means "God is the judge"

Comptetent astrologers are well aware that in reading a horoscope something more is necessary than experience, somethong that goes deeper than literal interpretation of rules.

Without intuition no astrologer can succeed, and intuition is realy the inner instruction of the all-knowing Spirit.
The omnipresence of God necessitates His real presence in human personality, an d those only who have established contact with this inner source of knowledge are fully qualified for astrological judgement

The story of Daniel shows that from his youth he was accounted on of the leading astrolgers at the babylonian court. It shows, too, that he cultivated assiduously the attitude of receptivity to Divine direction which is indispensable to proper judgement of horoscope.
In the second chapter of his book, which dealswith one of the greatest long-range astrological propjecies ever recorded, he reports himself as saying to Nebuchadnezzar

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