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Astrology the ancient peoples of the East in Assyria, Babylonia and Egypt was an important place not only as applied to almost every field of knowledge, but also was used in the management of the country and was closely related to religion, creating its basic assumptions.

Astrology In Greece lost its religious character, developing more as a philosophical belief. Biblical Hebrews, specifically Israel, existed as a buffer state between the two powers, astrology hołdującymi: Babylon and Egypt, no wonder, therefore, that they were familiar with the religion of the stars. In support of this in many places in the Old Testament can be found providing astrological line of thought that astrology was there generally known and practiced. As we recognize the great vision of Job lunar stations, and the blessing of Jacob (1.Mojż.49) signs of the Zodiac. The Jews of Babylon also took seven weeks and the months, setting a public holiday or the Sabbath on Saturday or the day of Saturn.

U prophets and in the ensuing lawmakers astrology proper, ie the proclamation of the stars, does not meet the prohibition (Daniel II, 2, Isaiah 47.13, Jeremiah 10:2). Only the performance of magic and divination was forbidden under the harsh punishment (Deuteromn. 18, 10), and the Jewish Kabbalah, in its all chapters explicitly refers to astrology.

In ancient Rome, right panels XII (450 BC) prohibited under penalty of death spells. However, that is, preaching divinatio future and finding out things the natural way of hidden were treated separately from the spells that are considered supernatural investigation.

Christianity, in contrast to the tolerance of pagan religions, it was fundamentally wrong with the set up of other cults. Therefore, the Church of Christ condemned the cult of spirituality and faith in the stars. Likewise rejected the fatalism which, like belief in the omnipotence of the stars, was not to be reconciled with the Christian the science of free will and responsibility for their actions.

place faith in the omnipotence of the stars took the divine plan for the world. So if action is planned, and the case is not a game, according to Christian teachings, divination is not generally excluded, but is exploring God's judgments. Celebrities do not develop their activities against the will of God, but exist only as characters, but the show does not work. The Catholic Church took the position absolutely hostile only to pagan notions of astrology.

already on the books of the Old Testament, revealing the divine plan for the world was largely the subject of extensive prophecies that the materialisation of the Christ does not put an end to the preaching of the future. The oldest teachers of the Catholic Church were, however, opponents of astrology. Tertullian believed that God permitted the art of mages until you get to Christ, now there was only the astrological doctrine of Christ, and not a Saturn, Mars and the rest of the "dead." Tertullian saw all kinds of predictions for hidden idolatry as "Daemonum inocuta. Also, ecclesiastical writer Lactantius thought astrology as an invention of demons. But Nissy Gregory, one of the fathers of the Church, writes: "As the seal imprints its image on the wax, like the rays of the constellation of stars imposing man in his fate the moment of conception." Also

church father Jerome (d. 420 AD) did not reject the faith in the preaching and clairvoyance, but considered them as "privilegia singulorum", which, however, do not jump to general laws. Church Father Augustine (354 430 AD) in youth acquainted with astrology and has long been convinced inevitable that the source of sin is "in heaven" and that each individual act is dependent upon that. After his conversion to Christianity, he turned his resentment against his former faith in the stars and not just in its deterministic form, but also the subordination of the impact of stars will of God. In his Confessions, the violent attacks directed against astrology. The doings of astrology has seen a danger to morality. He did not want to explain the sinner his sins and crimes "unhappy stars" and thus avoid liability. Augustine, even as a teacher Church, stayed on as the Greek mentality, divination did not want to justify the rational arguments.

If anyone wants to find an explanation even without astrology, for example, by inheritance, or the unfortunate circumstances of the deception. Astrology applied in a reasonable manner, it was not designed to justify human rights, but wants to draw attention to the game of all forces, which are available, show the image of the soul, both cautionary and an indication of support. "Stars do not enslave but warn." Yes Neoplatonists taught already and it tallied perfectly with the grace Christ. On this basis, the Catholic Church tolerated then astrology, and many of his supporters were pressing astrologers.

"Coercion stars" are often felt as a burden and as a destruction of all human freedom and chastity. The "powers of heaven" Goethe says:

introduces man in life, you do
Poor guilty
And then leave it tortures
For any wine is backfiring on the ground.

These forces do not know no mercy, as taught fate. Sentence came to be that the stars themselves can not do nothing, and only herald the orders of God, whose almighty will also be subject to. Through sacrifice, repentance and penance, however, opens up the possibility for a man driving and rescue from the horrible circle of belief, from prison, in which a man closes astrology. In this way the doctrine of Christ does not question the importance of the stars, but they also found support.

Albert the Great, the Holy Catholic Church wrote many astrological works, including: Speculum astronomicum, Commentarium in Ptolemaei Almagestum, De imaginibus astrologorum, De sphaera mundi. Albert was the first prominent German astrologer. After a thorough study has come to this conclusion: "All that conceives nature and art, inspired by the forces of heaven, the shapes of the heavens and heavenly bodies existed before all other created things and that is why having an impact on everything that was created after them."

Roger Bacon (12141292) was the strongest defender of astrology among Catholic thinkers did not despite but precisely because he was a naturalist. In his works, De locis Stellarum, Opus maius clearly put behind astrology.

St. Catholic Church Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) says in Summa theologiae, the difference of sex, physique and character are dependent on individual stars and that: "Celebrities have a direct impact on lower-body ... but an indirect influence on the properties of random and soul, which manifest themselves through the action of bodily organs. Everything in the lower world of nature and maintains conceives it, is a tool of celestial bodies. Prediction of future natural events that result from the positions of stars, is not prohibited. If someone foretold events that must occur, then it acts as a fortune teller, but as one who knows and speculates. Dispositions of the human body are subject to movements of stars, it also Ptolemy said: "It is absurd to believe that some of the emanations of the stars have influence on the physical differences." Also in the works, Summa contra Gentiles fidei catholicae Opuscula Theological and Thomas talk about astrology in a positive sense.

In many cases, the Catholic Church has applied sanctions against astrology, but not for their activities as such, but be concerned with the horoscope of Christ, What poczytywano for heresy ( Peter of Albano, Cecco d'Ascoli, Cardanus, Lucilio Vascini ).

If Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) he put in his Divine Comedy, the most famous astrologers in the hell did the ethical and political reasons to condemn their opponents. In Paradise, however, praises the high importance of the positions of stars in the hour of his birth. Sam was a supporter of astrology, and applied it.

Rafael Santi (1483-1520) in the picture hung in the hall Dispute Seguetury at the Vatican, presented on how theologians tried to reconcile philosophy with theology and astrology. It shows the wise men during the dispute, the side facing the astrologers, and draw on the tables of figures and geometric and astrological signs, which they send by some pretty angels evangelists, explaining the contents of arrays.

Code in force in the church to the Catholic Church in 1919, a Corpus iuris Canonici, believed that the examination of the future is not a sin, but an attempt to find indications of the divine will. But be careful not to deal with the prophecies are not crept into the worship of pagan idolatry. Therefore, he threatened with excommunication all those who indulge in superstitious pagan ways of preaching.

here marked by a distinct difference between astrology "pagan" and "Christian". The reasoning in this way: Stars interact with anything that has its origins in the Moon. But the human soul comes from God and that is why the stars do not have influence on it. Human will is free. Meanwhile, the stars, though not governed directly by human activity, for which he is responsible, it does affect per accidens the decision of the act by the state of bodily organs, which are Strongly influenced by it. In this way was preserved the dogma of free will. Astrology "pagan" transformed over time in astrology "Christian."

Supreme dignitaries of the Catholic Church in a way that demonstrated they were followers of astrology, and many of them, not content with his nadwornymi astrologers, dealt with it practically. Astrology dealt with the following Popes: Sylvester II (9991003), John XIX (10241032), Alexander IV (12541261), Nicholas V (14471455), Pius II (14581464), Alexander VI (14921503), Julius II (15031513), Leo X (15131521), which has even established a department of astrology at the university founded by the Pope himself Sapientia, Peter III (15341549), Marcellus II (1555). French Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly and German Cardinal Nicholas of Cusy were active astrologers. Cardinal Richelieu often inquired of the astrologer Morinus . General Order of Carmelites Junctinus Francis (15231580) was the author of extensive works on astrology, which consists of two volumes, 2,500 pages. It contains a complete astronomical and astrological knowledge of his time. This monumental work astrological Physiomathematica monk from Olive Placidus'a de titis have official "imprimatur."

Many Catholic bishops, abbots and priests not only dealt with astrology, but they also wrote valuable books in this field. The Council of Trent (15451563) forbade the recognition of all fortune-telling books, ie those which contain the rules of preaching future events according to the teachings of the Church subject to man's free will. "However, such rules are allowed, and natural observations, which were written for the benefit of navigation, agriculture and medical art." The same has been prohibited, or predictive astrology, birth, allowed the so-called astrology. natural. About the two pontifical bullach that deal with astrology, there are plenty of false claims.

The Bull Coeli et terrae Constitutio of January 5, 1586 Sixtus V (15851590) prohibited only read books on astrology question on, prohibited the Council of Trent. This was to be unconditional recognition of man's free will. Urban VIII (16231644) in the Constitutio Inscrutabilis edict of 31 March 1631, only turned against the abuse of astrology and then against the denial of freedom of will.

Over the centuries, religious factors repeatedly spoken out against abuse of astrology in a way acceptable by real astrologers. And today, serious astrologers around the world, in a manner determined to oppose the laity and szarlatanom in this field.

Catholic Church has never condemned or banned astrological knowledge! All claims are against falsification of history, rozsiewanym by opponents of astrology with clear reasons. If time, some clerics speak out against astrology, merely expressing my own private sentence is unreliable and only to such an audience, where their astonishing ignorance of history and astrology does not raise issues sprzeciwu.Dlatego again be clearly noted: Astrology is not opposed to the teaching of the Catholic Church , who also never in the past was not opposed to astrology! Translation from German Stanislaus Rosta uwspółcześniony by the Editorial Board. Reprinted (with some abbreviations) from the Polish astrological calendar the year 1939 prepared by Francis A. Prengl. Dr. Hubert Korsch