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IRRATIONAL CLAIMS OF ASTROLOGERS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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Besides, nobody would admit that perversity could come from beings who are divinities. How could one believe that they are the authors of the evils attributed to them, and that they themselves become evil because they set or pass under the earth, as if they could possibly be affected by the fact that, in regard to us, they seem to set; as if they did not continue to wander around the heavenly sphere, and remained in the same relation to the earth? Besides it is incredible that because a star is in such or such a position in respect of another star, it becomes better or worse, and that it affects us with goodness when it is well disposed, and evil in the contrary case.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42930

STARS AFFECT THE PHYSICAL, NOT THE MENTAL BEING. STARS SERVE AS LETTERS IN WHICH TO READ NATURE.