Astrology And Religion Among The Greeks And Romans
by Franz Cumont
Book Index
Lecture Iv. Theology : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 57 LECTURE IV. THEOLOGY Posidonius defined man as "the beholder and expounder of heaven." 1 Nature itself--the ancients vied with each other in insisting on this point--destined him to contemplate the sky...
Lecture Vi. Eschatology : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 92 LECTURE VI. ESCHATOLOGY In the previous lecture we showed how, to the astronomer theologians, contemplation of the sky had become the source of a mystic union with the divine stars. The sublime joys of ecstasy...
Preface : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. v PREFACE It is the purpose of these lectures delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions, to sum up the results of researches carried on by me for many years...
Lecture Ii. Babylon And Greece : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 22 LECTURE II. BABYLON AND GREECE The relations of Greek philosophy with oriental theologies form a subject of vast extent, which has long been discussed. In this lecture we do not pretend to solve these problems...
Lecture Iii. The Dissemination In The West : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 42 LECTURE III. THE DISSEMINATION IN THE WEST We have seen the "Pan-Babylonist" mist, which obscured the historical horizon, vanish before the breath of criticism. It is not the fact that thousands of years before...
Announcement : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. vii ANNOUNCEMENT The American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions. This Committee was organised in 1892...
Dedication : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. xx MAURITIO JASTROW BABYLONIORUM ASTROLOGIAE INTERPRETI SAGACISSIMO
Lecture V. Astral Mysticism Ethics And Cult : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 77 LECTURE V. ASTRAL MYSTICISM 1--ETHICS AND CULT A theology which was based on theories of celestial mechanism, which deified mere abstractions such as Time and its subdivisions, which attributed a sacred...
Title Page : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], ASTROLOGY AND RELIGION AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS BY FRANZ CUMONT American Lectures On The History Of Religions, Series Of 1911-1912 New York And London, G. P. Putnam's Sons [1912] Scanned, proofed and formatted...
Introduction : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. xi INTRODUCTION . PHILO, "De Opificio Mundi", c. 40. After a long period of discredit and neglect, astrology is beginning to force itself once more on the attention of the learned world. In the course of the last...
Untitled : * This is a study of star-worship by Franz Cumont. At the turn of the 20th century, Cumont collected all available astrological and astronomical texts from antiquity. This book summarizes his knowledge and theories on this subject. Cumont shows that astronomical knowledge was developed over time...
Lecture I. The Chaldeans : * "Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans", by Franz Cumont, [1912], p. 1 p. 2 ASTROLOGY AND RELIGION AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS p. 3 LECTURE I. THE CHALDEANS During the period of the French Revolution citizen Dupuis, in three bulky volumes "On the Origin of all Forms of Worship"...