• - Coma Berenice contains seven visible stars (36, 70, 32) - View in mid-May - Expect to see the three lucida, a, b, g.
• - Cassiopeia is the Laconian Key.
• - The Pin-Wheel Nebula NGC 4254, (99), is one of the pyrotechnics of the sky.
• - * First let the morning Pleiades be set, and Ariadne's shining Coronet - (Corona Borealis?) - Crown their wine - Alfaca the eye pupil
• - The Ashtaroth of the Hebrews
• - It "darts surprising rays".
• - Corvus was known as Phoebo of prophesy.
• - Spica the Head, and Arcturus the Heart
• - The Crux was the south pole of the Hindus. (4s)
• - The Cross is perpendicular as it crosses the meridian.
• - The red region of Cygnus
• - The heavens are the Tree of Knowledge, the stars fruit.
• - Vega was an ancient pole star in 14,000 BC. It turned in the opposite direction than our present Polaris.
• - Vega could be seen from the base of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops on June 7th. (Five other stars were also visible then.)
• - (In the symbols a circle with ears down stood for ascending, and one with ears up for descending.)
• - Prior to 5000 BC the Egyptians honored Dubhe as the pole star. They had also honored g Draconis.
• - The "four knots" of the Dragon
• - Eridanus has a third of heaven's stars!
• - Wisdom is said to be in the Lance Star.
• - Understanding in the Bow Star
• P248- Hydra was identified with the source of the fountains of the deep.
• - Bel is Ursa Major; Rex is Regulus
• - The star color varies with the temperature, from the coolest red, then in order, orange, yellow, white, green, blue, and the hottest very blue.
• - (Our Sun is a color-type GO, and Polaris is F8.)
• - (Observe the wingtips of Cygnus, the mane of Leo)
• P266- The Khasias of the Himalayas say that every month the Moon falls in love with his mother-in-law, who very properly repulses his affection by throwing ashes at him. (Comets and meteors in the 12 Signs)
• - (One of the Greek letters may represent the Egyptian hieroglyph for the gods.)
• - Milton: The sinful wandered not in the neighboring Moon as some have dreamed.
• - Codices and Codexes are Keys of the Seven. For example Libra becomes Zichos.
• - Day and Night are weigh'd in Libra's Scales.
• P271- The comet of 43 BC was reported as outshining Virgo or the Julian Star.
• - A comet in the month of September was reported in 531, 1106, and 1680 AD; it returns in 2255.
• - The Persians showed Libra as a human figure lifting the Scales in one hand and grasping a lamb in the other. (Libra's symbol has been used in pottery and architecture.)
• - The Holy Mound, "Tul Ku", designating the Tower of Babel.
• - Libra the Lamp - the Solar Lamp Bir
• - Pharos in the Scorpion's claws; House of Venus
• - The Sun is in Libra October 29th to November 21st.
• - The Libra lunar station was called by the Hindus "The Gateway".
• - B Libra is an unusual pale emerald.
• - Libra's NGC 5904 is noted for the number of variable stars it contains.
• - Lupus the Wolf, Star of the Dead Fathers from Akkad, the Chinese called it the South Gate.
• - Three stars of Lyra form the Tripod, with half closed wings.
• - Lyra was known as both the Eagle and Vulture.
• - Wega or Vega, a Lyra, was called "Messenger of Light", and "Life of Heaven", and "Judge of Heaven". It is a blue star.
• - The Magellen Clouds rotate around the south pole, each with two centers.
• - A comet was reported in Ophiuchus in 123, 1230 and 1604 and 1848. There was one in Scorpio in 134 BC.
• - A star of Cepheus is called "The Shepherd".
• - A star of Ophiuchus is called "The Magician".
• - (The Bible says God promotes from the North, with the Cup in His Right hand.)
• - (Precession moves 1.4 degrees per century.)
• - Ophiuchus is kneeling and holding the Serpent, and reaching out with his right hand.
• - Tammuz was also known as Adonis.
• - Orion's belt stars lie on the Great Equator.
• - Orion aka Horus; Sirius the Cow in Egypt (Isis)
• - In the "Book of the Dead": The Osiris N is the constellation Orion - "The Barley God"
• - Bible: That Aish has been generally understood to signify the Great Bear; Kesil is Orion; Kimah is the Pleiades.
• - Orion the Gibbor - See the feet of the Twins
• - De Rheita of 1643 found Christ's Coat and Chalice in Orion; Al Yad al Yamna, the Right Hand.
• - Betelgeuze portended fortune and wealth.
• - Alpha Orion alone constituted the 4th rakshatra Ardra. This star would be a nova candidate. - A variable star
• - Sed Algruze - Orion's Hand
• - Rigel is a double, both bluish white - obscure
• - Psalms: In His cup is red wine, mixed.
• - Norsemen had Rigel and Alcor the Toes of Orwandil.
• - The B stars of the Dogs are their heralds.
• - An Amazon myth has Betelgeuze chasing "Peixie Boi, a dark spot." - In Orion
• - (Very little on Mintika)
• - Anilam E Orion, the "String of Pearls"; the Bullions set in the middle of Orion's Belt. It culminates January 25th. The Belt the Mazzaroth, also called Jacob's Staff. The distance of the Belt was called the Golden Yard-arm. (Yard?)
• - The Belt has risen 12 degrees in the last 4000 years
• - A telescope of at least 2.25 inches, with 140 power, is needed for the Great Nebula of Orion.
• - In Orion's head 3 stars less bright, but great, further lies their Splendor.
• - The Orionids meteors come out of Orion's right hand on October 18th.
• - Markab, a Pegasus, in Arabic means vehicle.
• - Pegasus culminates November 3rd; a lunar star
• - Pegasus appears on coins of Corinth from 500 BC to 338 BC. Also as a Winged Disc, with hooded snakes over its back. Shown also with either the Sun or a crescent Moon.
• - B Pegasus was called "Footstool Feet", also Stand or Support, also a Spout.
• - Jupiter and Venus, the two fortunate planets.
• - Psalms: "Between two Cheribim He shineth".
• - "The upraised hand of Cassiopeia".
• - B Perseus is supposed to be evil. Avoid Algol, the Gorgon!
• - Astrologers felt that clusters were harmful objects.
• - A new "Phoenix-period" began in AD 139.
• - Our Sun joins Sirius on July 20th. (Holy day)
• - Pisces is identified with Venus.
• - The minor planet Juno was discovered in September 1804. (Pisces?)
• - Sagittarius the Illuminator of the Great City. (From the cunieform)
• - Our Archer was a type of the rising Sun.
• - To do with ninth month (Assyria)
• - Sagittarius, was honored by the Hindus in 3000 BC; it was their double nakshatras. An Arabian lunar station.
• - Celestial river, the Milky Way
• - The winter solstice occurs on December 21st, the shortest day.
• - There is a circular black void around Sagittarius, except for a faint star and a crescent star.
• - Sagittarius' a star is "the Archer himself".
• - Among the stars of Sagittarius is a double, orange and yellow and bluish.
• - A nova occurred in Sagittarius in 386 AD.
• - V1 and V2 Sagittarius are red stars 5, 12 minutes apart, both double, are called the "Archer's Eye".
• - O Sag. is identified with Nunki - Archer's Hand
• - In an early Zodiac the Scorpion was the Hare.
• - Scorpio: The Crowned Snake; Double Sword - Place where One Bows Down (From Akkad)
• - Antares the red star was honored by the Greeks. It was one of the Four Royal Stars of Persia.
• - Job: Who put wisdom into the Lance-Star, or give knowledge to the Bow-Star.
• - In all ancient Zodiacs Taurus began the year. (??)
• - Argos and Taurus rise backwards.
• - A manuscript almanac of 1386 had "who is born in yat syne (Taurus) schal have grace in bestis".
• - And thunder, when the Sun was here, brought a pleniful supply of victuals. - Left eye
• - Aldebaron was one of the Royal Four; "the messenger of Light" - it is often occulted by the Moon.
• - Dhruva, the Pivot of the Planets, was the star closest to the north pole, "the Great God."
• - Only two or three stars are closer than Sirius. A brillant white color, leaning to steely blue. A sign of hydrogen. It rises August 10th, and culminates February 11th.
• - Al Ula, the First Leap (Ursa Major); Al Thaniyah the Second Leap (red); and Al Phikra al Thalitha, the Third Spring.
• - From Tennyson's "The Princess": The fiery Sirius alters hue, and bickers into red and emerald. (On rising)
• - Kant thought Sirius the central star of the Milky Way.
• - Bessel thought Sirius to have an obscure companion in 1834. It (companion) was observed first on January 31, 1862 by Clark. It proved to be a yellowish star of 8.5 mag., ten seconds away. It dimished to five seconds in 1899. It is the size of our Sun, but a "dark star". It has a 51.5 year cycle.
• - B Canis Major was called Isis by Bayer and Ideler.
• - E Canis Major is a double, 2 and 9 pale orange and violet, known as Adhara!
• - Procyon rises on July 19th.
• - Thales formed Ursa Minor.
• - Seven stars were mentioned in Lajard's "Culte de Mithra". (Ursa Major)
• - Pope said, "The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye."
• - The Akkadian title for the Wain was "Lord of Heaven"
• - Bier was used instead of Bear.
• - The Book of the Dead mentioned the Bear's hind thigh.
• - The malignant red Set in Ursa Major (Horus?)
• - The pious woman Al Suha was Alcor of Mizar.
• - The a Ursa Major is a yellow double.
• - Phecda, of Ursa Major, is yellow, and is called the Thigh.
• - The Chinese's "Three Instructors", were stars of Ursa Major.
• - The Arabs thought that Canopus was the highest, and Alcor the lowest of heaven. [see Mizar of Ursa Major]
• - Alcor is thought to be the hidden star of the Seven Sisters or Pleiades.
• - The Arcadians say they existed before Earth had a Moon.
• - Bryant spoke of Polaris: "by whose ray The voyager of time should shape his heedful way."
• - Cepheus also has a variable with a 50 day cycle, followed by a rapid 2 to 3 hour change.
• - Crater is the Cup.
• - Thrice Great Hermes left Egypt for two volumes.
• - The Pleiades begins the 25,900 year cycle of Precession.
• - Going horns to tail, to knees of Perseus, to Aries.
• - Agni, god of fire, is the Regent of the Pleiades.
• - The Great Circles: 1. The Zodiac, 2. Ecliptic, and 3. Precession.
• - The Pleiades and Altair are timekeepers said Euripides.
• - The curious threads that hold stars together
• - The Great Pyramid had 7 chambers.
• - Mayan legend had the world destroyed when the Pleiades culminate at midnight.
• - Many Grecian temples aimed at the rising of the Pleiades.
• - Mere, our Sirius
• - November is the Pleiades month. (Culminate Nov. 17)
• - Alcyone of the Pleiades culminates on December 31st.
• - The Lost Sister is dark; it could be Alcor of Mizar or Electra, or Maia (Mary).
• - The nebulosity extends to Persius.
• - From Aldebaron to the Bull's left ear are the Pleiades Driver.
• - Aristotle said honey was never gathered before the rising of the Pleiades.
• - The Pleiades has a helical rising, and a cosmical setting.
• - Andromeda with chains has two fishes, one at her breast, and one at her feet.
• - The 12 Books of the "Epic of Creation" were each a sign of the Zodiac.
• - The "Airy Trigon" looks like a slingshot and is said to consist of the stars of Aquarius, Pisces, Gemini and Libra. The planet with this sign is in charge.
• - Jupiter is in Sagittarius, Mars is in Scorpio, and Saturn is in Libra.
• - (Could it be that each letter of the Greek alphabet has a much deeper metaphysical meaning. The letter Zeta reminds me of the Egyptian hieroglyph for a god. Their T or Tau brings to mind the Chinese Tao, that expresses the oneness of life in generation.)
• - The Seven Sages of Greece were: Bias, Chilo, Cleobulus, Epimenides or Periander, Pittacus, Solon, and the astronomer Thales. (Ursa Major)
• - The "Nourishers of the World" of the Zendavesta consisted of Sirius in the East, Ursa Major in the North, Corvus in the West, and Argo in the South.
• - (Corvus is associated with the Cup of Benjamin in Hydra, in my own opinion.)
• - Corvus was called the prophet of Apollo.
• - Corvus the babbler, tattler, and the pratter.
• - The Hydra guards the contents of Corvus' Cup.
• - Corvus culminates near midnight of May 10th.
• - Socrates said, "by the dog I swear".
• - That God only is wise.
• - Do you love flute-playing, but not flute players?
• - Socrates reproached "with understanding the greater, and overvaluing the less".
• - Socrates: "I would have you know that, if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me."
• - Do not sin against the God, or lightly reject his boon.
• - I am (Socrates) a sort of a gadfly, given to the state by the God.
• - And thought is best when the mind is gathered into herself. (Meditation)
• - Absolute truth can be found only out of the body. "Out of all the courses".
• - When God releases us we behold the clear light of truth.
• - Dwelling in her own place alone - chains of the body.
• - Socrates put Aesop into verse while in prison. He also composed a hymn to Apollo.
• - I have often had intimations in dreams.
• - Perceiving through the body's organs.
• - (Enter the Gates of Horn.)
• - The founders of the mysteries, - intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below (Earth) will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods.
• - Many are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics.
• - Mystics are the true philosophers.
• - Not only do all things have opposites, but they are generated out of their opposite.
• - And the weaker is generated from the stronger, and the swifter from the slower.
• - The opposites are separated by two intermediate processes or fluxes.
• - There truly is such a thing as living again.
• - Socrates talks of the lyre and the youth who loves it. (For recollection) - (Vega?)
• - The abstract ideal equal
• - When we ask and answer questions
• - The Child within us fears death: Let the voice of the charmer be applied daily until you have charmed him away.
• - Being dissolved in like manner as of being compounded. The uncompounded is indissoluble.
• - The uncompounded (created) is the same and unchanging.
• - The compound is always changing and never the same.
• - Unchanging things you can only perceive.
• - The world spins around the soul, she reels.
• - When the soul communes with the unchanging it is a state of wisdom and meditation.
• - The soul rules and governs.
• - Ghosts are souls that are cloyed with sight and therefore visible.
• - Philosophers, only, are permitted to reach the gods. They abstain from all fleshly lusts.
• - Their souls are fastened and glued to their body.
• - The soul sees through prison bars. (Lattice)
• - The captive through desire conspires release.
• - Reflecting that when a man has great joys or sorrows or fears or desires he suffers from them.
• - Pleasure and pain are nails holding our souls to our bodies.
• - Calm passion and follow Reason.
• - Socrates the "consecrated servant of God".

This book is a must have for anyone seeking the higher wisdom, and it is an excellent reference volume for gleaning the messages of the poets, the Bible, and Shakespeare.

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