Mystery of the Mazzaroth: Prophecy in the Constellations

I had great hopes for this book. All my research suggests that "mazzaroth", the Zodiac, was indeed of high and widely-understood but now-forgotten significance to the ancient Hebrew "chosen people" - that the "hosts of heaven" were seen as the "glory of God" that could speak to us at times. It was to be held sacred, as with the wine Abraham offered Melchizedek, and occasionally read as signs witnessing God's work (Gen.1:14), but not to be practiced compulsively as astrological prediction for everything, as with alcohol indulgence. There is a difference here which is both subtle and vital!I appreciated the Bible quotes and they were relevant. But alas, after a hopeful start, I was disappointed. Pages 38-40 are about the "correct starting point" but the calculations there are very simply incorrect. Warner claims that in c.4000 BC the winter solstice was "between Leo and Virgo" but actually it was in Aquarius moving towards Pisces. On the next page he says that the sun was in Virgo at Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew calendrical New Year dating back to a c.4000BC "Creation" - but actually it is more like Sagittarius. Two big mistakes - and then he goes on to claim a lot more, based on too little evidence.Warner dismisses the work of Frances Rolleston on p.25, on the strength of a referenced dismissal which is grossly simplistic and unappreciative. Nevertheless, I don't want to totally dismiss or discourage him. I think he is on the right track - but needs to be a lot more scrupulous and careful with evidence. He needs to appreciate how similar what he is doing is to what Rolleston and Seiss were doing - sensing, and trying to draw out, the Bible story, glory, mystery, in the heavens! I believe they have much to teach him!I think we have a way to go before we can claim our foundations are true and sound, in this area. But I like to look at work I may disagree with, when I feel it arises from a pure soul and has nuggets of truth. Witness to Truth is the work of our Lord, and thus it should surely be what we also aspire to. At its purest and best, this is what Science and Scientific Method are about. I respect the facts that Seiss was a well-respected preacher; and that Kepler, one of the founders of modern Science who first described accurately the paths of planets, was also a monk and an astrologer who was looking for God's perfect beauty in the heavens.Have a look at one of my favourite books showing the beauty of the heavens, A Little Book of Coincidence.

It got boring with ALL those Bible quotes?? and they are the Book , with out the Bible their is nothig