tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8168001673650981416.post5812658374156242273..comments2024-03-14T00:41:46.675-07:00Comments on Systems' Approach to Mundane Vedic Astrology: Whither the house system?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8168001673650981416.post-42798800210580380652010-10-03T04:29:28.900-07:002010-10-03T04:29:28.900-07:00Thanks Philo, for the valued insights. Indeed, thi...Thanks Philo, for the valued insights. Indeed, this is still something of a puzzle, how astrology reemerged in the Western part of Europe during the middle ages. The principle question is if it came from the East or from the Arabs? With regard to the story on the house system, an integral part is the culturual shift from a warrior culture of the Roman Empire toan intellectual culture of the Dark Ages, where the Church played a dominant role and actively suppressed heretical ideas, such as astrology had by then become to be considered. This would have been case in the Eastern part of the empire as well. It seems that it was only after the fedual structure of Europe had gained preeminence over the Church that the oppressive dogmas of the Church began to be lifted. Sometime during the early or late middle ages, these formerly heretical practices then began to emerge again. The circumstantial evidence points to it having been based on a recovery of the knowledge from fragments of the earlier vibrant practices in the Hellenic world, via the Arabs. As the shift in the house system is linked to the Arabs as well. Interestingly, the intellectual climate in early Islam, also in Europe from the 8th century, seems to have been much more tolerant towards astrology, considering it as an integral part of astronomy.Cosmologerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16111089810606158619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8168001673650981416.post-61591909256709463372010-10-03T03:53:24.066-07:002010-10-03T03:53:24.066-07:00Hello and thank you for inviting me to your blog. ...Hello and thank you for inviting me to your blog. We had had some short discussions on the history of astrology and as this post is broadly on this subject, I would like to make comment.<br /><br />Diocletian in 285 began the process of dividing the Roman empire into eastern and western components, so that when the western empire ended, the East survived into the 15th century. One may therefore consider what <br />Greco-Roman knowledge, including that of astrology, may have remained within the Levant until then.<br /><br />In the Greco-Roman period, knowledge of astrology was ascribed to the Chaldeans - I think we may describe this as broadly Mesopotamian.<br /><br />The region of Greco-India - today Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and at times, principalities across the Himalayas, was culturally within the orbit of the Hellenistic world from the time of the first Macedonian conquest in the 4th century BCE, until the Arab conquests. This is true regardless of other invasions in the meantime, by other peoples - the Kushans, for example.<br /><br />Greco-India cannot, therefore, be divorced from the Hellenistic cultures of the Levant during this long period.<br /><br />At History Hunters International, we have coined the term Panhellenism to describe this culture, for it stretches from Greco-India, into the Greco-Roman world and during the period of the Roman empire, one may expect to find artefactual evidences of this even in Roman Britain. And we do.<br /><br />Although components of this panhellenic world were conquered by different peoples at different times - and sometimes reconquered - from the time of the first Macedonian conquest until the fall of the Byzantine empire in the 15th century - almost two millennia in all - all the dominions of the panhellenic world will share much culturally.<br /><br />This panhellenic history includes astrology.Philohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04990967634805017460noreply@blogger.com