Second Lecture

Now, what lived in the souls of the Egyptian-Babylonian-Chaldean peoples? A devotion to the outer world, as befits the character of the sentient soul, a devotion to the stars. And in the relationship between the stars, which are at rest in the universe, and the wandering stars, the planets, people felt something like an innate, truly sublime astrology. They looked out into the structure of the world and found in what the stars expressed the mystery of spiritual events.