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Miloš Bogdanović
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ASTROLOGY
AND
ANTHROPOLOGY
Between Zodiac Signs, Genes and Free Will
Belgrade, Serbia
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BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTROLOGY
The oldest historical sources revealing humanity’s belief in
astrology originate from the ancient Babylon. In 1853, in the area of
ancient Nineveh, today's Iraq, thousands of clay tablets with
writings in cuneiform alphabet were found. They reveal a
considerable inclination of ancient Babylonians to superstition. Even
an accidental water spill was given a mystical significance. The
future was foretold in various ways, from inspecting the intestines of
sacrificed animals, to reading the stars:
"If in Nisannu the normal sunrise (looks) sprinkled with
blood: there will be battles in the country." (Enuma Anu
Enlil, line 4; 18th and 16th century BC)
"If Jupiter passes at the head of Venus: Akkad will be
conquered with a strong weapon. If Jupiter passes at the
shoulder of Venus: Elam will be conquered with a strong
weapon. If Jupiter passes at the right of Venus: Guti will be
conquered with a strong weapon. If Jupiter passes at the left
of Venus: Ammurru will be conquered with a strong
weapon." (Enuma Anu Enlil, tablet 63, line 2-5)
"If a king takes part in ceremonies in the month Ayyaru, the
result will be good luck." (Shumma Alu, tablet 11)
According a legend, astrology was discovered by Nechepso and
Petosiris, before whom the stars revealed themselves and
proclaimed the secrets of astrological science. The astrologer
Vettius Valens (second century AD) reports that Nechepso
himself—pharaoh in the twenty-sixth dynasty, 677-672 BC—
described his revelation so:
"It appeared to me, as I prayed the whole night and looked
up to the heavens, that the sky opened up and out of the
heavens sounded a voice. Then a sky- blue robe, which
depicted the night sky, wrapped itself around my body. And
thus I experienced the whole immortal order in the
movements of the universe." (Wilhelm Spiegelberg, "Eine
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neue Spur des Astrologen Petosiris." Heidelberg:
Sitzungsberichte
der
Heidelberger
Akademie
der
Wissenschaften, 1922, 3rd Abh.)
In ancient times, there was a popular belief introduced by the
Greek philosopher Aristotle that the stars are beings with
supernatural intelligence which, due to their divine nature, influence
life on Earth. Hence the names of the planets and their
corresponding pagan divinities - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, etc.
The greatest divinities in the sky, i.e. the brightest celestial
bodies (the Sun, the Moon and the planets) became rulers of
different constellations (groups of stars). The supreme pagan
divinity – the Sun, became a ruler of Leo constellation, the Moon
became a ruler of Cancer, Saturn ruled Capricorn, Mars ruled Aries
and Scorpio, Mercury ruled Gemini and Virgo, Jupiter became a
ruler of Sagittarius and Pisces, Venus ruled Taurus and Libra, and
Saturn ruled Capricorn and Aquarius. Once the new planets were
found, Uranus became the ruler of Aquarius, Neptune ruled Pisces,
and Pluto ruled Scorpio.
Pagan divinities also became the rulers of weekdays. The
Sun became the ruler of Sunday, the Moon the ruler of Monday,
Mars ruled Tuesday, Mercury - Wednesday, Jupiter - Thursday,
Venus - Friday, and Saturn ruled Saturday. In some languages the
names of the days still testify to this ancient belief. For instance, in
English, Sunday is the day of the Sun, Monday - the day of the
Moon, Saturday - the day of Saturn.
Such a declaration of celestial bodies as divinities naturally
collided with Jewish, and later with Christian and Islamic
monotheism. While the polytheists attempted to learn their destiny
by analyzing the Zodiac signs, the biblical monotheism shifted the
responsibility for destiny to people themselves, and conditioned it
with their fulfillment of God's moral demands. Observing God's law
brought God's blessing, and its violation - damnation. With the
intention to remind people of the revelation of God’s law - the Ten
Commandments, Moses uttered the words which would cause a long
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term conflict between astrologers on one side, and the orthodox
Judaism and Christianity on the other:
"And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the
mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with
darkness, clouds, and thick darkness; And the Lord spake
unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of
the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice; And
he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded
you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them
upon two tables of stone. ... Take ye therefore good heed
unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the
day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst
of the fire, Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a
graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of
male or female. ... And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto
heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the
stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath
divided unto all nations under the whole heaven."
(Deuteronomy 4:11-19)
(The concept of worshipping and service to false gods in religion has a
deeper meaning than formal worshipping and service. For instance, the
Apostle Paul said about gluttons that stomach was their god. Any seeking
of satisfaction or an object of reliance is in a sense seeking of god, and
therefore believing that the planets as divine personalities influence our
spiritual life represents to the religious people a violation of the First
Commandment which says: "You shall have no other gods before me.")
In The History of Christian Church, we can read why the
Christians were very hostile towards astrology in the beginning:
"The Christians did not want to let their fate be determined
according to the stars or to expect help from gods by whose
names the stars were called at the time." (PGI. Malicki, The
History of Christian Church, pg 193)
In The Astrological Lexicon we read:
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"In the first centuries after Christ, an alternating duel
between Christian belief in salvation and astrology followed;
Christianity firstly excluded pagan cults, especially the cults
of the Sun and the Moon, in order to suppress them, and then
it returned them into its system, although previously
modified." (Udo Becker, Lexikon der Astrologie)
In the secondary century AD, the Greek astrologer Claudius
Ptolemy, attempting to identify celestial bodies as one of the key
external factors in the character formation of individuals and entire
populations, stated the then-present character differences between
the populace of Northern and Southern Europe:
"Those who live under the more northern parallels, those, I
mean, who have the Bears over their heads, since they are far
removed from the zodiac and the heat of the sun, are
therefore cooled; but because they have a richer share of
moisture, which is most nourishing and is not there
exhausted by heat, they are white in complexion, straighthaired, tall and well-nourished, and somewhat cold by
nature; these too are savage in their habits, because their
dwelling places are continually cold. The wintry character of
their climate, the size of their plants, and the wildness of
their animals are in accord with these qualities." (Claudius
Ptolemy, The Tetrabiblos, pg 53)
In the second century AD, Christian writer Tatian criticized
astrology for giving people excuse for committing evil acts:
"For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars,
like dice-players, they introduced Fate, a flagrant injustice.
For the judge and the judged are made so by Fate; the
murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy, are
the offspring of the same Fate; and every nativity is regarded
as a theatrical entertainment by those beings of whom
Homer says,- 'Among the gods Rose laughter irrepressible.'
... Such are the demons; these are they who laid down the
doctrine of Fate. ... But we are superior to Fate." (Address to
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the Greeks; The writings of Tatian and Theophilus, pg 1213)
Due to the criticism aimed at superstition, paganism and
debauchery of the world, early Christian Church became disdained
and persecuted by the people. And then there was a compromise.
Christianity became a state religion. Nonetheless, masses of pagans
acquired only Christian names, whereas they kept astrology along
with the other polytheistic customs under a new veil as much as they
possibly could. The names of the pagan gods got replaced with the
names of the Apostles and Christian saints. Ljubomir Nenadović
wrote about the formal transformation of Roman paganism into
Christianity:
"When (Rome) realized that it fought Christianity in vain, it
turned into a zealous Christian: it cast Jupiter’s statue into
the shape of Saint Paul, whom it formerly crucified. It put
crosses and statues of the Apostles to the non-Christian
obelisks and pillars." (Ljubomir Nenadović, The Complete
Works, pg 519)
The dark of the Middle Ages descended, and despite the
official opposition of the Church authorities and its occasional
repressive measures against the astrology adherents, astrology itself
still remained very popular among people. In the seventh century
AD, the century of religious superstition, Saint John Damascene
tried in vain to use his rational arguments to dissuade people from
astrological superstition:
"Indeed, if all our actions depend on the courses of the stars,
all we do is done of necessity: and necessity precludes either
virtue or vice. But if we possess neither virtue nor vice, we
do not deserve praise or punishment, and God, too, will turn
out to be unjust, since He gives good things to some and
afflicts others. Nay, He will no longer continue to guide or
provide for His own creatures, if all things are carried and
swept along in the grip of necessity. And the faculty of
reason will be superfluous to us: for if we are not masters of
any of our actions, deliberation is quite superfluous. Reason,
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indeed, is granted to us solely that we might take counsel,
and hence all reason implies freedom of will." (Paul Haffner,
The Mystery of Reason, pg 246, Published by Gracewing
Publishing, 2001)
Eventually, astrology gained greater support from the
authorities of the Western Church. In The Astrological Lexicon we
read:
"It is an unquestionable fact that during two thousand long
Christian history the relationship between astrology and
Christianity was continuously designated by a controversy:
the periods of absolute anathematizing kept replacing the
periods of a certain admission, when, for instance, even the
popes like Nicholas V, Pius II, Sixtus IV, Alexander IV,
Julius II, Leo X or Paul II, had their court astrologers." (Udo
Becker, Lexikon der Astrologie)
In The Catholic Encyclopedia we read:
"Emperors and popes became votaries of astrology—Charles
IV and V, and Popes Sixtus IV, Julius II, Leo X and Paul III.
When these rulers lived astrology was, so to say, the
regulator of official life; it is a fact characteristic of the age,
that at the papal and imperial courts ambassadors were not
received in audience until the court astrologer had been
consulted. Regiomontanus, the distinguished Bavarian
mathematician practised astrology, which from that time on
assumed the character of a bread-winning profession, and as
such was not beneath the dignity of so lofty an intellect as
Kepler. ... Among the zealous patrons of the art were the
Medici. Catherine de' Medici made astrology popular in
France. She erected an astrological observatory for herself
near Paris, and her court astrologer was the celebrated
"magician" Michel de Notredame (Nostradamus) who in
1555 published his principal work on astrology—a work still
regarded as authoritative among the followers of his art.
Another well-known man was Lucas Gauricus the court
astrologer of Popes Leo X and Clement VII who published a
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large number of astrological treatises." (Catholic
Encyclopedia, 1907, Volume II, pp 18-25, Article on
Astrology)
Pope Sixtus IV is the first Pope who actively exercised
astrology. Pope Julius II specified the date of his coronation as per
the advice of astrologers. Pope Paul III, who legalized the Jesuit
Order, sought advice from astrologers and convened the conclaves
according to the horoscope. Pope Leo X formed the Department of
Astrology at the University of Rome. Catholic cathedrals were often
decorated with astrological symbols. And then, for a while,
astrology was almost entirely rejected and forgotten under the
influence of the new Age of Enlightenment. It all began with Martin
Luther, whose arguments against astrology did not differ much from
the early Christian ones:
"God has created and placed the stars in the firmament, to
the end they might give light to the kingdoms of the earth,
make people glad and joyful in the Lord, and be good signs
of years and seasons. But the star-peepers feign that those
creatures, of God created, darken and trouble the earth. ...
The upright and true Christian religion opposes and confutes
all such fables. ... Astrology is framed by the devil, to the
end people may be scared from entering into the state of
matrimony, and from every divine and human office and
calling. ... Lastly, to believe in the stars, or to trust thereon,
or to be affrighted thereat, is idolatry, and against the first
commandment." (Martin Luther, The Table Talk of Martin
Luther, pg 343-344)
The idea of enlightenment appealed to people's common
sense to take responsibility for themselves and their lives into their
own hands. As such, it naturally collided with the determinism
which sprang from the belief that humanity is governed by celestial
bodies.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed
immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's
understanding without guidance from another. This
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immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of
understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know]
"Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the
motto of enlightenment.
Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a
proportion of men, long after nature has released them from
alien guidance (natura-liter maiorennes), nonetheless gladly
remain in lifelong immaturity, and why it is so easy for
others to establish themselves as their guardians. It is so easy
to be immature. ... The guardians who have so benevolently
taken over the supervision of men have carefully seen to it
that the far greatest part of them (including the entire fair
sex) regard taking the step to maturity as very dangerous, not
to mention difficult. Having first made their domestic
livestock dumb, and having carefully made sure that these
docile creatures will not take a single step without the gocart to which they are harnessed, these guardians then show
them the danger that threatens them, should they attempt to
walk alone. Now this danger is not actually so great, for after
falling a few times they would in the end certainly learn to
walk; but an example of this kind makes men timid and
usually frightens them out of all further attempts. Thus, it is
difficult for any individual man to work himself out of the
immaturity that has all but become his nature. He has even
become fond of this state and for the time being is actually
incapable of using his own understanding, for no one has
ever allowed him to attempt it. Rules and formulas, those
mechanical aids to the rational use, or rather misuse, of his
natural gifts, are the shackles of a permanent immaturity."
(Immanuel Kant, Konigsberg in Prussia, 30 September 1784;
Peter Loptson, Readings on Human Nature, pg 121)
And so, the Age of Enlightenment began. Anything that
could not stand the criticism of sound reason was rejected as
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superstition. In the first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica we
read:
"ASTROLOGY, a conjectural science, which teaches to
judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretel
future events by the situation and different aspects of the
heavenly bodies. This science has long ago become a just
subject of contempt and ridicule." (Entry on "Astrology",
Encyclopaedia Britannica, first edition, 1771)
The astrologers themselves admit:
“By the end of the 17th century astrology vanished.”
(Ninoslav Šafarić, Mundane Astrology, pg 8)
"Then astrology fell into a decline with the Age of
Enlightenment, the major European universities stopped
teaching astrology, and by 1700, very few people were
interested in the subject. In the late 1700s, however, interest
in astrology in the West began to resurface, with a small but
dedicated following." (Nina Gryphon, http://gryphonastrology.com/blog/a-shorthistory-of-astrology-and-astrology-faq/)
Although astrology was not prohibited in any repressive
ways, it lost its popularity alongside other superstitions. The belief
that people alone are responsible for their own actions was in
conflict with the belief that someone else beside themselves might
be blamed for their fate.
French enlightener Voltaire wrote:
"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy
the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have
too long dominated the earth." (Joseph McCabe, Selected
Works of Voltaire, pg 110)
It was believed that enlightenment would uproot any kind of
superstition, that truth would unmask any delusion, and that justice
would overpower any form of injustice. The new Age of humankind
brought optimism that spread throughout the world.
Enlightener Dositej Obradović (1742 – 1811) at that time
sang:
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“Here comes the age jolly and golden,
When the meals are not forbidden!*
Evangelical liberty will reign,
Throwing the yoke off of all the men!
Oh, golden age! Oh, times so sweet
Of love that makes all our hearts beat!"
(Dositej Obradović, Letter to Haralampous, pg. 1-2)
Side by side with him, Ljubomir Nenadović, sang about his
vision of the new mankind:
“Enlightenment is bright like a ray of light
There is no night anywhere in sight.
Foolishness is down, truth now wears the crown.
Toppled are the idols of all human pains,
Now I see one throne wherefrom justice reigns.”
(Ljubomir Nenadović, The Complete Works, pg. 181)
However, the blessings of the New Age, even though they
made life easier, in time became the temptation of human hedonism.
The reformer John Wesley (1703-1791) wrote:
"We ought not to forbid people to be diligent and frugal**:
we must exhort all Christians, to gain all they can, and to
save all they can: that is, in effect, to grow rich ! What way
then (I ask again) can we take that our money may not sink
us to the nethermost hell? There is one way, and there is no
other under heaven. If those who gain all they can, and save
all they can, will likewise give all they can." (John Wesley,
The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, pg 150)
For diligence and prudence were natural products of an
enlightened spirit of a New Age person. However, by stating that
such a spirit naturally lead to wealth, Wesley concluded that
increasing the wealth also leads people into the temptation of
selfishness and pride. That is why he warned the people of his time:
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"Lay out nothing to gratify the pride of life, to gain the
admiration or praise of men. ´So long as thou dost well unto
thyself, men will speak good of thee.´ So long as thou art
´clothed in purple and fine linen, and farest sumptuously
every day," no doubt many will applaud thy elegance of
taste, thy generosity and hospitality. But do not buy their
applause so dear. Rather be content with the honour that
cometh from God." (John Wesley, The Use of Money,
Sermon 50)
* Dositej refers to superstitious abstinence from food on certain days of the week.
** In the enlightened New Age Europe prudence was not a result of stinginess (as was the
case in the Catholicism of Central Europe); it was due to a lack of interest to waste money
on various pleasures, which was considered a sin during those days.
DR SPOCK ON THE DEGRADATION OF THE
ENLIGHTENMENT IDEALS OF THE WESTERN
CIVILIZATION
"We've even lost our convictions about the purpose of
human existence. ... In the past, it was assumed in many
countries that man's main function in the world - over and
above making a living - was to serve God, by carrying out
his purposes as revealed by religion ... Much the same was
true in America in the Colonial period. Children never had
any idea that life was for their fulfillment. They were
constantly exhorted to overcome their base natures in order
to grow up to be pleasing in God's eyes ... In America very
few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny
is to serve their family, country and God ... However, I think
that more of our children would grow up happier and more
stable if they were acquiring a conviction, all through
childhood, that the most important and the most fulfilling
thing that human beings can do is to serve humanity in some
fashion and live by their ideals.
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There are enormous, frightening problems in our country and
in the world. Through our reliance on initiative and
materialism we have accomplished technological miracles.
But as our physical needs are met it becomes embarrassingly
evident that we have made no progress in human relations, in
spiritual serenity or in world security. Our rates of divorce,
suicide and crime are among the highest in the world ... We
have an overwhelming supply of the most powerful weapons
the world has even known. Yet we are in imminent danger of
annihilation, with no solution remotely in sight and no sense
of security. Because of our power we are interfering
arrogantly in the affairs of other nations and arousing worldwide resentment ... Our only realistic hope as I see it is to
bring up our children with a feeling that they are in this
world not for their own satisfaction but primarily to serve
others." (Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, pg 12, 18-19)
The meaning of human life, which was in the Age of
Enlightenment directed towards the welfare of other people and the
progress of the entire humanity, soon became redirected towards
selfish exploits. The rational examination of our own motives and
actions therefore ceased to be desirable. Unveiling of superstitions
and delusions soon became rude, and the question of good and evil
all the more relative. A need was formed to shift the responsibility
of people away from themselves, and towards life conditions and
external influences, which led to the revival of interest in astrology,
parapsychology and Eastern religions in the middle of the 19th
century. Referring to the new interest of the people in astrology,
astrologers wrote: “150 to 180 years ago it started to wake again, at
the beginning of the 20th century it revived” (Ninoslav Šafarić,
Mundane Astrology, pg 8).
The true resurrection of astrology occurred during the Great
Depression after World War I. Nowadays, a daily newspaper or a
TV program without astrological comments is unimaginable. That is
why we dedicate this book to the concept of astrology.
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THE ASTROLOGICAL PHENOMENON BETWEEN
SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION
Contemporary astrologers nowadays do not attempt to justify
the cause-and-effect connection between planetary positions and
human behavior by the will of gods, but scientific explanations:
“Man is 70% made of water, so it makes sense that the Moon affects
him as much as it affects ebbs and tides!” (Maja Lončarić, Astrology
– Stars Talk)
It is true that some of our life activities are influenced by
proper positions of certain celestial bodies. For instance, we wake
up every morning in a distinct correlation with the emergence of the
Sun in the horizon. Nevertheless, we do not get up from our sleep
due to the position of the Sun, but because we have rested, and the
position of the Sun in the sky only synchronizes the waking cycle. If
the blinds are shut and we are not aware that the day has come, our
waking will be the consequence of our inner biological clock and
our body’s need for sleep. If such a close and large celestial body as
the Sun cannot affect the synchronization of our biological
processes in any other way except when it is visible, what can we
say about the influence of other significantly smaller and more
distant celestial bodies?!
Scientist Drago I. Dragović calculated the difference
between the strength of the gravitational field of a nearby Coca-Cola
vending machine affecting a child at the moment of birth, and that
of the biggest planet in the solar system- Jupiter (which is 1300
times bigger than the Earth, has 320 times larger mass than our
planet, and is approximately 43 light-minutes away from us). The
effect on the child by the gravitational field of the Coca-Cola
vending machine out-strengthened Jupiter’s by about 3 times, so it is
meaningless to claim that Jupiter can affect and determine the
child’s fate to a greater extent than various objects in the child’s
surroundings. Some astrologers will say that it is not the strength of
the gravitational field that counts, but the angle in relation to the
Earth. But then, what should we say about the influence of all those
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numerous celestial bodies that we cannot see from the Earth due to
their long distance, and whose influences in this case surely do
exist?!
Even if it was possible for the astrological factor to affect the
formation of personal traits via some mystical force, then it would
influence the child even before his birth, not only at the moment of
birth. The constellations constantly change above out heads, not just
throughout the year, but every day and every night, due to Earth’s
rotation around its own axis.
How can it not leave a trace on the fetus during the first nine
months (which is more than 23 million seconds), and do it at the
very first second after birth?!
The constellations which are taken into consideration during
horoscope calculation are not exactly located where we see them.
We observe the light of their stars with delay, which is dependent
upon their distance from us. We observe the closest star after Sun
with the delay of more than four years.
The stars belonging to a constellation are only seemingly
placed in a plane when observed from the Earth.
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Their reminiscence of the shapes of Sagittarius, Taurus, Leo,
Pisces etc. is up to an individual interpreter's imagination and has
nothing to do with their objective location in the sky; not even a
two-dimensional one, let alone their actual three-dimensional
position in the universe. Astrologers believe that the contours of
creatures or things they see in the constellations incite adequate
characters in people who were born at the time these contours were
present in the sky. For instance, if someone was born in the
constellation which reminds an astrologer of Libra, the astrologer
then comes to the conclusion that the person will tend to measure
and scale, and if they were born under the Zodiac sign of Capricorn,
their character will resemble the stereotype people usually relate to
goats. Let us note how the famous astrologer Linda Goodman in her
bestseller "Linda Goodman's Sun Signs" correlates the appearance
of a fish with the looks and character of those born under the sign of
Pisces: "When you meet Pisces people, look first at their feet.
They'll be quite noticeably small and dainty (including the men's), or
else they'll be huge and spread out like a tired washerwoman's.
Pisces eyes are liquid, heavy-lidded, and full of strange lights.
Frequently, but not always, they're slightly protruding, bulbous and
extremely compelling. The lungs are not strong, and weak toes and
ankles may result from March births. The fish seem to have fallen
arches and metatarsal injuries or superbly strong and supple feet.
When life dumps him with a splash-a real belly-smacker-into a
stagnant river of dismal failure and hopeless conditions, instead of
leaping out of the murky danger, he's more inclined to hide behind
his pale green illusions which keep him from making practical
decisions." (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 500, 501, 504)
We can see how astrology is based on (the lack of) scientific
knowledge thousands of years old, when people did not know that
stars and planets only seemingly move around the Earth, that the
distance of celestial bodies from the Earth (and thus their potential
influence) differs, when they were not familiar with genetics and
heritage, so they believed that the physical appearance of the
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constellations in the sky determined the physical appearance of the
persons born under this constellation.
Any external influence which would incite an organism to
act differently from what is purposeful to its existential needs would
jeopardize the survival of the organism, which means that such
organisms, susceptible to external influences determining their
behavior, would be “flawed“, with jeopardized entity. Such
organisms would not come into existence by means of the
mechanisms of natural selection and evolution (because they do not
have evolutionary advantage in the struggle for survival), nor would
God create them as such (for it would be unfair if our rational
personality was governed by some irrational celestial body).
There is one more remnant from the past in contemporary
astrology. Although an average astrologer seeks scientific
explanations of the astrological phenomenon, they still interpret the
effect of the astrological factor in a manner suitable to the ancient
belief that the planets actually are divine personalities which affect
people's character and behavior.
In astrological literature we read:
"One of the most surprising things about astrology is the way
in which all kinds of detail can be obtained about people and
things which one would expect to be quite beyond the
province of the horoscope. ... It is not only possible but easy
to determine from a birth map intimate details about the lives
and affairs of the marriage partner´s family, friends, and
dependents with astonishing accuracy." (Vivian E. Robson,
Astrology and Sex, pg 140)
In order to show the supposed foretelling power of
astrological science, Vivian Robson provides a very
grotesque example, such as: "The fifth house would furnish
any details that might be required about a cat owned by the
daughter of a charwoman employed by the wife´s sister-inlaw!" (Ibid, pg 143)
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For instance, while speaking of the influence of the astrological
factor when it comes to meeting a potential spouse, astrologer
Vivian Robson claims:
"Thus if the significator is in the tenth, the meeting will take
place through business or at the office; if in the eleventh,
through friends; and if in the third, on a journey, and so on."
(Ibid, pg 140)
Such an influence on events on Earth can be made by a
reasonable being only, not by the effect of the natural laws!
Although astrologers call upon science, i.e. how the Moon
influences high and low tides, at the same time they interpret the
influence of celestial bodies in such a way that in no way
corresponds to the capability and the workings of the gravitational
field.
It is crystal clear that we cannot affect human character by
any gravitational or magnetic field, let alone determine the moment
of making acquaintance with that special someone, or the success of
one's future. Such a manner of assigning human qualities to celestial
bodies is a remnant from the ancient times, when it was believed
that planets and stars are Pagan divinities who possess
characteristics of personality and power to influence events on
Earth.
By definition, superstitions are beliefs in events which are
predetermined by specific actions without a logical cause-and-effect
connection between the actions and future events. As it is not
possible to explain a cause-and-effect connection between planetary
positions at the moment of birth and a person’s character, it is
obvious that astrology is a variant of superstition.
Naturally, every person carries responsibility on their
conscience to reasonably question the meaning of their views and
actions. As such, acceptance of belief in astrology, magic rituals and
who knows what kinds of superstitions would definitely stand as
some sort of an attack on their own reason and conscience.
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We surely need to have a strong motive to counteract our
own conscience and voice of reason. Not even the medieval church
repression of astrologers or the arguments of contemporary
scientific discoveries were able to remove astrology from people's
conscience, because people have a need for astrology.
We have a strong need to explain our actions in such a
manner which will excuse us from our own responsibility, and shift
it to some other sphere that does not require giving up the wrong
principles in our lives.
However, as a conscientious and responsible person will
refuse to seek safety in a system whose explanations are contrary to
commonsense logic, it is just as unreasonable to expect someone to
counteract their own senses and conscience to negate the experience
of the phenomenon they encountered.
Even though the attempts of scientific explanations of the
astrological phenomenon, given by the astrologers themselves,
cannot sooth the conscience of reasonable people, the fact remains
that “there is something in it”, i.e. that there is an extraordinary
overlap between the traits of a Zodiac sign and the traits of a person
born under the sign in certain cases. The purpose of our research and
deliberation will be an attempt to explain why and when the
astrological phenomenon seemingly functions.
Astrologers recognize diverse types of people and justify
their existence by different positions of planets and stars in the sky.
We will explain that differences between people have quite concrete
(mostly adaptive) reasons, among which there is no room for the
astrological factor, nor would it make sense that the forming of our
personality traits was affected by any other factor beside our
existential needs and the needs of our sphere of influence.
By means of psychological analysis we will explain that the
psychological types among people adequate to certain Zodiac signs
really do exist, but that they occur regardless of the sign a person is
born under. That is why we will use the term psychological type of
Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc. which may correspond to many
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individuals, even though they were not born under that sign or
ascendant at all. Many readers will be aware that their psyche and
physical appearance make them correspond to some other
astrological sign other than that the one they belong to by birth.
In our anthropological analysis we will explain the reasons
why there are differences between the psychological types and thus
the differences between the Zodiac signs themselves. We will show
that astrologers themselves, based on their own experiences, provide
evidence that the psychological types corresponding to Zodiac signs
have no source in the position of stars in the sky, but in the genetic
heritage and accidental or deliberate birth of a certain psychological
and anthropological type under the corresponding Zodiac sign.
In our religious analysis we will explain why astrologers still
interpret the influence of the astrological factor as they did in
ancient times, when they were convinced that planets are divine
characters.
We will remind ourselves of the fact that we are beings
responsible for our own actions and that our freedom is in the hands
of our free mind and will.
This analysis will convey a strong message of enlightenment
to experienced astrologers, with the purpose of clearing their
experience of the superstitious trust in stars and determinism, and
helping them become capable psychologists and anthropologists
instead.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS ZODIAC
SIGNS
All human beings are characterized by their senses, mind and
emotions which make them become aware of life’s needs, as well as
basic psychophysical abilities which help them secure their
existence and continuation of species.
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THE FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Our senses (what we see, hear, touch, etc.) provide us with
information on what happens in the outer world and our system.
Based on this sensual information we create mental notions about
reality in our minds, and then these mental notions stimulate
corresponding emotions (emotional experiences).
If our emotions become unpleasant under the influence of
external causes (hunger, danger, injustice, etc.) then we should solve
external issues (ours and other people’s existential needs, need for
safety and social justice). And if our emotions become unpleasant
due to the influence of inner causes (inner dissatisfaction,
nervousness, tension, guilt), then we should solve our inner
problems which are under the domain of our spirituality (the
question of meaning of our motives and actions).
Emotions exist to direct our attention towards a need for
responsible actions of our will, irrespective of whether their source
is external or inside of us. Emotions also enable our system for
action that is purposeful towards our life needs, by starting an
adequate hormonal activity.
Regardless of whether our mental notions about reality and
our emotions are pleasant or not, they provide us with a cause to
respond to our needs in a reasonable and purposeful manner.
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Awareness of what is beautiful, good, and just, arouses
pleasant emotions and incites our will to expressions of gratitude.
Awareness of danger and the corresponding emotion of fear force us
to eliminate the source of that danger. Awareness of injustice and
the feeling of anger make us prevent and eliminate the injustice.
Awareness of trouble leads us into taking action which will solve
our problems and therefore eliminate the trouble.
Therefore, the purpose of our senses, mind and emotions is
to make us aware of the needs of life, so that we could answer them
by a purposeful action of our own will and therefore secure our own
existence. As we are endowed with various psychophysical abilities,
we can realize these actions and, in doing so, respond to life’s needs.
Different mental notions and emotions increase or reduce levels of
various types of hormones which aid activation of the required
psychophysical abilities of our system needed for an adequate
response to the needs of life.
THE FUNCTION OF MOTIVATION
Our abilities by far exceed the abilities of all other beings on
this planet. Our scientific abilities, discoveries and achievements
made our life easier, and our artistic abilities made it more beautiful.
Our powers enabled us to go much further than our existential
needs, and allowed us to master the world around us to a great
extent, fathom the secrets of matter structure and its sources of
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energy which have been undreamed of until recently, and to start
conquering the universe.
Since our abilities by far exceed the needs of our existence, it
appears to us that happiness and welfare of humanity should not be
brought into question. However, human life is so inundated with
destruction and calamity that we can only state that we possess high
existential abilities and contentedly bring this deliberation to a
closure. In order to respond to life’s needs properly, it is not enough
to simply understand these needs and to have psychophysical
abilities to fulfill them. To respond to them, we need to possess
good will, that is, a motive to fulfill these needs. If we did not have
driving motives, our abilities would have no function, our existence
would be endangered, and the meaning of our life could not be
fulfilled.
However,
even though our
abilities by far
exceed the sheer
requirements of our
existence,
our
nature
is
characterized by a
tendency towards
behavioral motives
that
are
not
purposeful to our existence. We show a tendency to endanger our
existence for our mental (proud), emotional or fleshly pleasures. For
example, a vain person will sacrifice their life due to loss of honor,
as much as a person of vice will jeopardize their life with their
harmful bad habits, immoderation and perversion. Also, we express
tendencies towards destructive motives and actions – hatred,
violence and aggression, which affect other people, and may lead to
our own self-destruction. Our irrational behavior is not caused by
life circumstances, but by our own inner discontent, whereas various
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life circumstances, fortunate or unfortunate events only lead to its
manifestation.
Inner discontent changes the function of our sensual, mental
and emotional experiences, so instead of making us aware of life’s
needs, they become the source of elimination of our inner
discontent. We attempt to suffocate the awareness of our inner
discontent, and this need results in the distortion of the function of
our experiences. The same inner discontent which results in seeking
satisfaction through selfish behavioral motives (via the pursuit of
sensual, mental and emotional pleasures), also results in the need to
express it through destruction (antagonism, hatred, aggressiveness,
etc.) or perhaps a more subtle form of psychic release (abuse of
music, sports, meditation, etc.).
Of course, if a person is essentially content, they have
neither a need to search for happiness (because they already have it),
nor a need to relax psychically, because there is no need for
expressing discontent (since it does not exist in their essence). Thus,
liberated of various manifestations of their inner discontent, they are
free to commit themselves to solving the real (existential and
creative) needs of life.
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Reason, conscience and will protect us from submission to
the motives that are the fruit of the inner discontent and, as such,
detrimental to our actual existential needs.
Our reason analyzes the purpose of our motives and actions,
and our conscience asks of us to use our will to fight against the
motives and actions that were unmasked as senseless and harmful to
our own welfare and the welfare of others.
If a person still submits their will to irrational motives, the
person’s conscience burdens them with guilt, and adds a moral
dimension to the irrational motives, declaring them sinful.
Due to their ability to create reasonable insights into the
meaning of their acts, and due to their ability to rule over
themselves, the adults are considered responsible for their actions.
THE FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS DEPENDENT ON
THE NATURE OF MOTIVES THAT MOVE US
Regardless of whether our mental notions about reality and
our emotions are pleasant or not, they can tempt us to respond to
them by an immature reaction of will, if we let our will be defeated
by our inner discontent.
It is normal to react to pleasant sensual experiences and
mental notions about reality with pleasant emotions. However, if we
let ourselves be overcome by the discontent of spirit, we will
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respond to them with selfishness, instead of love and gratitude,
which means we will abuse the pleasant experiences by seeking
inner satisfaction in them.
It is normal to feel fear in danger, but if we are full of inner
discontent, we are tempted to react with cowardice instead of
bravery. Cowardice will take away our strength to fight the source
of danger in a purposeful manner. It is normal for us to feel anger at
the sight of an unjust act, but if we are discontent in the essence, we
are tempted to respond to the injustice with rage and hatred, instead
of keeping the spirit of humility and reason. The immature reaction
of hatred to injustice will provoke an unnecessary confrontation
where a reasonable dialogue is needed to overcome the conflict. It is
normal that loss and distress cause the feelings of sorrow and
discomfort in us, but the inner discontent results with the temptation
to react to the source of sorrow with depression and worry, instead
of tranquility and care.
As much as unpleasant sensual experiences, mental notions
and adequate unpleasant emotions can be a manifestation of the
external reality of the world around us, they can also be a
manifestation of the inner reality of our being.
Unpleasant emotions turn the attention of our mind and will
to our inner spiritual problem, and then we have the possibility to
either solve the inner problem or to eliminate the awareness of it by
seeking the external sources of satisfaction.
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To smother the awareness of the inner discontent of our
spirit, we show a proneness to misuse our sensual, mental and
emotional sensations. And, in order to drown the voice of
conscience which is inciting us to regret our abuse of sensual,
mental and emotional experiences, we tend to misuse and perverse
our own voice of conscience instead.
Instead of making these sensual, mental and emotional
sensations a cause for expressing the harmony and satisfaction of
our spirit, we seek the satisfaction of our spirit in them instead, thus
forming irrational behavioral motives. Instead of obeying our voice
of conscience and repenting for our bad motives, we tend to resort to
defense mechanisms which also lead us into irrational behavioral
motives (suppression, hypocrisy and self-righteousness).
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SENSUALITY - THE WRONG ROLE OF SENSUAL
EXPERIENCES
The abuse of sensual experiences is manifested through our
need for sensual pleasure (pleasant sensations), which makes us
sensual, that is, slaves to the senses of taste, hearing, touch and all
the other sensual experiences. The most common sources of sensual
pleasures are food indulgence, sexuality and tobacco.
Sensuality exhausts the power of our will and makes us
unrestrained, immoderate, lustful, depraved and dependent on our
current sensual experiences. Sensual motives induce us to behave in
such a way which endangers our survival. We think it is more
important for our food to be tasty than healthy. Voracity and
excessive drinking endangers our health and therefore, our
existence. For example, a person sick from lung cancer refuses to
quit smoking by saying: “My life is in vain if it is deprived of
satisfaction!”
Immoderation in sexuality potentially endangers our
potential offspring and continuation of species, because it makes us
unprepared for those life responsibilities needed for starting a family
and looking it. Once people are ruined by hedonism, the idea of
living for someone else, even if it were their own offspring,
becomes too much of a burden. This is the main cause of the “white
plague” of modern civilization.
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VANITY – THE WRONG ROLE OF MENTAL NOTIONS
The abuse of mental notions is manifested through our need
to create notions about reality in our minds which do not correspond
to reality, but to our desire to show ourselves and our values in a
distorted light.
The need for a great mental notion about our own worth and
magnitude makes us proud and vain. Responsible behavior is
conditioned by our self-criticism. However, vanity does not allow us
to be self-critical, for self-criticism threatens our idea of our own
worth and greatness in our mind.
Vain persons would hate themselves if they did not have a
distorted notion about their own importance. Their mental notions
can be very easily threatened, even by a lack of other people’s
approval. That is why they are incapable of having an objective
notion of reality in their minds, can be swayed by flattering, and are
prone to conflicts since they get easily offended. Vanity makes us
easily offended and therefore causes endangerment of our actual life
needs by forcing us to take rash and silly actions.
Once vanity is projected on a larger scale through the form
of nationalism, patriotism or any other ideology, it leads an entire
nation into temptation of endangering its survival on a global level
due to the need to satisfy its proud Ego or due to the need to avoid
the humiliation of making a political compromise.
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SELFISHNESS - THE WRONG ROLE OF EMOTIONAL
EXPERIENCES
The abuse of feelings (emotions) makes us selfish, i.e. slaves
to the feelings of being loved, possessions, sense of belonging, and
other emotions.
Selfishness makes us possessive, stingy, vulnerable, prone
to using various opiates (alcohol, narcotics, meditation, etc.) and
immature for facing emotions matching the reality. The need for
selfish pleasure disregards our life needs in order to satisfy the need
for certain feelings. It takes away our courage to fight injustice and
makes us incapable of resisting any manipulation through our
sentiment.
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS – THE WRONG ROLE OF
THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
As much as a person, driven by their inner spirit discontent,
tends to seek satisfaction in sensual, mental and emotional
experiences, his guilty conscience also forces him to seek
satisfaction in the feeling of his own moral righteousness. Guilty
conscience is a consequence of our refusal to listen to the voice of
conscience, which invites us to resist our inner discontent and repent
for the abuse of sensual, mental and emotional experiences.
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Guilty conscience can be manifested in many ways: through
our tendency to use euphemisms and the incapability to admit our
own sins or mistakes, through various fears and phobias, oversensitivity to criticism, a disposition to suppress our motives and to
project them to others, and also through our tendency to cynicism,
false morality, pseudoreligiousness, asceticism, false self-criticism,
etc.
Guilty conscience incites a need to feel morally righteous,
and we can trigger it by either instigating a feeling of love (through
meditation, pseudo-religious methods, and so forth), or by sticking
to the moral principles which have no purpose other than their own
end and for whose formal fulfillment we will endanger our own and
other people’s existence. For example, some religious people who
refuse blood transfusion can jeopardize their own lives as well as
someone else’s. By blindly sticking to the rules, the biblical
Pharisees put in danger the needs of those for whom the rules were
established in the first place. Jesus Christ revealed their fanaticism
by referring to the examples in the Old Testament which showed
that man was not made for the law, but the law was made for man.
Since this kind of “Pharisee” righteousness is not a response to the
needs of our sphere of influence, but our personal need for
satisfaction, we will refer to it as self-righteousness.
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HUMAN AS A RESPONSIBLE BEING
Our motives define the meaning and purpose of our
intelligence as well as all the other physical and mental abilities.
Whether our abilities are used to answer the actual needs of our
existence or to our and others' damnation depends on the quality of
motives that drive us. As human beings we are at liberty to define
the meaning of our lives by letting the reason choose the motives
which will drive us throughout our lives: motives that are indeed
purposeful to our needs of life (unselfish kindness), or the ones
which “parasite” off of our sensual, mental and emotional
experiences, and are as such recognized as meaningless by our
reason and sinful by our conscience. In any case - unless we
responsibly resist our sensual, vain and selfish motives, they can
lead us into actions which endanger our existence, so their
justification cannot suffer the criticism of our common sense.
Due to the conflict with reason and conscience, every
psychological type of Zodiac signs is characterized by a unique
behavioral motive as well as defense mechanisms in the struggle
against the voice of reason and conscience that call them to resist
their basic behavioral motives. Defense mechanisms are a result of
the resistance of man’s Ego to the voice of reason and conscience.
Namely, when common sense exposes our behavioral motives as
meaningless, our conscience attributes a negative moral value to
them: it exposes them as sinful, asking us to resist these motives
willingly. In case we do not want to resist the temptation, we are
bothered by our voice of reason and conscience, and we fight them
with our defense mechanisms. The aforementioned motives and
defense mechanisms represent our temptation and the obstacle on
our way to take responsibility to govern ourselves and our actions in
accordance with the principles of sound mind; these motives inhibit
our growth in becoming human, in the most supreme sense of the
word.
A sensible and responsible person behaves purposefully to
the actual needs of life, and not to some principle which is the end in
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itself. Unlike a grown person who governs themselves and the world
around them in harmony with common sense, an immature person's
behavior is determined and governed by their destructive motives
which, unfortunately, astrologers describe as quite natural and
normal.
DIVISION OF ZODIAC SIGNS BASED ON THE
DIFFERENCE IN BASIC MOTIVES
We will herein briefly define the basic types of Zodiac signs
based on their driving motives. The abuse of sensual experiences is
a trait of the psychological type of Scorpio. The abuse of mental
notions is a characteristic of the psychological types of Libra,
Sagittarius, Aries and Leo. The abuse of emotions is a trait of
Gemini, Virgo, Cancer and Pisces. In other words, Scorpios are
sensual. Libra, Sagittarius, Aries and Leo are proud (vain). And
Gemini, Virgo, Cancer and Pisces are selfish. Nevertheless, it does
not mean they overtly express their essential motives. For instance,
Virgos tend to become burdened with guilt, so their selfishness
(stinginess) is frequently suffocated and prevented from open
expression.
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Their sensations and emotions are weak, so, instead of
enjoying them, they enjoy the image of their own moral
righteousness, and for that reason they hypocritically prevent the
expression of their weaknesses. Aries is too proud to satisfy their
vanity by publicly expressing it in a parading manner as the
psychological type of Libra does. In the same fashion, the Libra
type, which naturally is not a slave to their feelings, uses feelings to
a great extent, but within their mechanism of manipulation over
other people with the purpose to achieve the ultimate effect, the
effect not being their own pleasant feelings, but the made-up notion
about their own worth and magnitude in their minds.
In this brief analysis we left out the Zodiac signs of
Aquarius, Taurus and Capricorn, because they do not exist as basic
psychological and anthropological types, but are results of different
combinations of the basic signs; Aquarius is a combination of
Sagittarius and Gemini, Taurus is a combination of Virgo and Leo,
and Capricorn - a combination of Cancer and Aries.
BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES OF ZODIAC SIGNS
SCORPIO – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF
SENSUALITY
Unlike the psychological types who are prone to abusing
their own emotional experiences (therefore being selfish) or their
own mental notions (and therefore vain), the Scorpio type is focused
on the abuse of sensual experiences, which makes them sensual.
Sensual abuse (indulgence in food, sexuality, tobacco, etc)
represents a meaning of life to the psychological type of Scorpio.
The healthy function of pleasant sensual experiences should be
solely informative, inducing a person to express satisfaction and
gratitude towards their sources. However, by attempting to satisfy
oneself through sensual pleasures, one attempts the impossible.
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Pleasant sensual experiences, as well as emotional, cannot resolve
the inner problem; they can only suffocate the awareness of it. Only
temporarily. The nature of our senses is such that their experiences
quickly disappear after they have fulfilled their healthy function and
brought our attention to the reality of life. Soon after a volunteer
poured cologne into his nose, he could not smell anything.
Therefore, individuals’ attempt to satisfy themselves with sensual
experiences naturally leads them to excessiveness, and then
depravity (perversion, etc.). When the senses go numb and the
feeling of satisfaction grows silent due to constant abuse, the sense
of guilt, by then suffocated with sensual pleasure, becomes
dominant. Scorpio then faces the temptation also typical of the
psychological type of Virgo, which is burdening with guilt that
eventually leads to hypocrisy and formalism. Influenced by the
sense of guilt, Scorpio is tempted not to regret the bodily desire
itself, but merely its manifestation. If the desire essentially remains,
the inner discontent remains also, alongside the unclear conscience.
Prior to that moment Scorpio would suppress the unclear conscience
with excessive sensual pleasures, whereas now they do it by
suppressing bodily desires under the influence of guilt. Unlike the
introverted psychological type of Virgo, who can easily control
themselves, the Scorpio type is extroverted and finds it very difficult
to conceal its inner urges for a long time. Hence, Scorpio’s
hypocrisy differs from Virgo’s. While Virgos calm their conscience
with an external moral immaculacy, the Scorpios tend to pervert
moral values by sidetracking them when not capable of curbing its
sensual urges, so expressing gluttony, for instance, is not regarded
as sin by them, whereas breaking a rule, tradition or a code of
conduct not related to the quality of driving motives in their lives
actually is. For instance, they would feel guilty if they worked on a
religious holiday, but not so if they tricked a customer in a business
transaction. Therefore, there is a transfer of guilt towards the
demands whose fulfillment does not require inner reform of motives
and character. When Jesus Christ criticized the Pharisees, he
criticized the temptation typical of the psychological type of
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Scorpio: "Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup
and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. Ye
fools, did not he that made that which is without make also that
which is within? But yet that which remaineth, give alms: and
behold, all things are clean unto you. But woe to you, Pharisees,
because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over
judgment and the charity of God." “This people honoureth me with
their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain do they worship
me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men. For leaving the
commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men.” “Woe to you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise
and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment
and mercy and faith.” (Luke 11:39-42; Mark 7:68; Matthew 23:23)
In order to succeed in restraining their extroverted nature from
expressing their own motives, the psychological type of Scorpio
more often then the other types sets out to walk the path of ascetic
fanaticism, which implies that they will eliminate all those
temptations which give the suppressed motives an opportunity to
come out, by strict forbiddances and avoidance of everyday life
temptations. Such a mechanism was also described in the Holy
Testament referring to people as "Speaking lies in hypocrisy and
having their conscience seared, Forbidding to marry, to abstain from
meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by
the faithful and by them that have known the truth." (1 Timothy 4:23) Of course, by such abstinence one proves that the true victory
over their temptations has not really come. Influenced by their
unclear conscience, they abstain from tasteful food, for consuming it
would reveal that deep inside they are still gluttonous, not grateful.
They abstain from sexuality because they have not defeated its
abuse, so they cannot comprehend its function in expressing true
love, etc. Their own unclear conscience makes the psychological
type of Scorpio incapable of easily forgiving others and prone to
arousing conflicts and aggressive actions in case of distinct
hypocrisy. The same violence that they are prone to apply to
themselves (due to the influence of guilt) when they curb the
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expression of their own essential motives, they are prone to apply to
others. “There is none worse than he that envieth himself, and this is
the reward of his wickedness.” (Sirach 14:6) The psychological type
of Scorpio therefore has two mutually opposed tendencies (which
result from their inadequate reaction to severe sensuality and
sensitive conscience) and perhaps for this reason they even have two
life phases: the first, sensual phase, being activated due to
undefeated temptation of puberty, whereas the second one, ascetic
phase, activates mostly at a later age, when the unclean conscience
naturally overpowers the experience of sensual pleasure. These two
phases can appear more often with less intensity. After every
satiation, the sense of guilt may prevail, but after the sense of guilt is
gone, the undefeated sensual nature may manifest itself again. A
truly responsible and mature person will not let themselves be ruled
by either bodily desires or the sense of guilt. If they truly repent for
their weaknesses in their heart, the enslaving desire will disappear,
and so will its symptom- the sense of guilt.
LIBRA – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF VANITY
Astrologers claim that the greatest virtues of those born
under the sign of Libra are: avoidance of conflict, charm, decency
and sociability. We would gladly praise these virtues of Libra if we
could be sure of the quality of the motives behind them. But if we
take into consideration those weaknesses astrologers attribute to
them, which include the ability to get easily offended and hypocrisy,
it becomes clear that both good and bad characteristics of Libra are
only different faces of one and the same nature. The fact that "Libra
is easily ruffled" (Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 125) reveals that behind the charm,
decency and sociability lies vanity. If we feed “the virtues” of such a
psychological type, we feed their vanity, which will show its other
(true) face when the time of difficult life temptations comes. Due to
their developed vanity, such a person will become a helpless victim
of external influences, causing them counteract their conscience. In
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order to avoid humiliation in the eyes of society, they will show an
inclination to deny truth, sacrifice their integrity and betray their
friendship. Along with Sagittarius, Aries and Leo, the psychological
type of Libra is moved by the need to satisfy personal vanity, which
means that they have the need to imitate imaginary mental notions
about their own worth and magnitude. But unlike Aries, Leo and
Sagittarius, the Libra type is characterized by cowardice, manifested
through the vain fear of losing the approval of society. Due to their
vanity, the psychological type of Libra has no personal attitude, but
the one that will win them the approval of the majority. Their vanity
makes them slaves to current public opinion. No one flatters their
friends more nor gives up friendship that easily under the burden of
fear and wounded vanity as they do. Quite often, they study courses
at universities that they are not interested in, or perform jobs they do
not like, because their choice of university courses and jobs is
governed by the need to leave the impression of special worth and
significance on their environment. Their vanity incites them to act
and pose before other people, especially in public, where they make
unnatural facial expressions and gestures, which would charm others
and make them like them. Inability to be honest with another person
inundates every form of mutual association, from plain friendships,
to marital or business liasions and political parties. Flattery is
regarded as a token of loyalty, benevolent criticism as a token of
hostility. The fear of losing the approval of another person or
community attributed to this psychological type is so strong that it
naturally results in their tribal way of thinking, the right question
being not what kind of person someone is, but whom they support.
A crime is not a crime if it was done in the best interest of a
community, whereas truth, justice and integrity, if harmful to the
community, represent an act of betrayal. The voice of clear
conscience is suffocated and overcome by the voice of vain slavish
compliance to the opinion of the society, and is subject to its direct
judgment. "They are ready for any sacrifice to give comforts to
those in their own to give comforts to those in their own immediate
home circle, but they are also prepared to sacrifice anyone else's
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family for their own, if necessary." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss
Heindel, The Message of the Stars, pg 102)
SAGITTARIUS - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF
ARROGANCE
As per astrological books, perhaps the greatest virtue of
Sagittarius in relation to other Zodiac signs is their free spirit.
However, their cry for destroying the external boundaries of
freedom is a manifestation of the slavery of their inner spirit. The
psychological type of Sagittarius is a slave to his or her own huge
and arrogant Ego. Arrogance in its essence is an irrational
independence that is the end in itself. Why do I have to go to work
every day? Why do I have to go to bed every night? Why do I have
to inhale air? Why was I ‘made a slave’? These are the questions
probably known to the psychological type of Sagittarius. Sagittarius
views any testimony of reason towards life’s responsibilities, and
any voice of conscience calling them to take on responsibility, as an
attack on their huge Ego, suffocation of their personality and denial
of their freedom. What is the relationship between Sagittarius and
other people like? How is their subjective Ego related towards the
objective needs of reality? Unlike the Libra type, not only is
Sagittarius not a slave to the public opinion, but they are almost
completely disinterested in it. In Encyclopedia of psychological
astrology by Charles Carter, we read that the term of
inconsideration, beside Aries, also belongs to the sign of Sagittarius:
"Inconsiderateness, as apart from selfish indifference, which is
found in primitive specimens of all the signs, is commonest in Aries
and Sagittarius, because their robust animal spirits make it hard for
them to appreciate or notice the feelings of less vitalized signs."
(Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg
103) A huge arrogant Ego makes Sagittarius live life unaware of
other people’s needs, and live inconsiderately as if they were the
only ones on the planet. Their reason is not focused on recognizing
the needs of other people's lives, but responds to current quirks of
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their own Self. An immediate and close contact with other people is
the only thing that causes sympathy and altruism in them. And even
then, when they decide to respond to the needs of life they are
assured of, Sagittarius will not be pleased with a simple reasonable
action; they will attempt to 'enhance' it by bringing their huge Ego
in, yielding to their own current cravings, which will result in
certain deviation from the plan instructed by their common sense.
Due to the nature of their huge Self, the psychological type of
Sagittarius experiences the most intense stress when they are to
yield to discipline of any kind, regardless of its reasonable
justification (getting up every morning at the same time, for
instance, or going to bed at the same time every night in order to get
up rested). They naturally want to break the rules or discipline and
therewith show the ‘free' spirit of their huge arrogant Ego.
Astrologer Maja Lončarić wrote about Sagittarius that they are
“disharmonic” (Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 17).
ARIES - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF PRIDE
As with the rest of Zodiac signs, astrology represents Aries’
flaws as virtues. Being justice-loving is a virtue, but Arieses hate
injustice more than they love justice. Being courageous is a virtue,
but Arieses are more reckless than they are courageous. Being
honest and open is a virtue, but Arieses are more uncontrollable and
rough than they are ready to honestly help another with their open
criticism. Having strong will is a virtue, but Arieses possess no
strong will, they possess strong impulses instead that govern their
will. All the virtues astrology attributes to Aries are devaluated by
the actual motives behind them. In times of stress, Aries’ values are
essentially revealed as great flaws. Astrologers claim the persons
born under the sign of Aries to be: "Aries is ... the extreme of selfassertion, vigorous, bold, and regardless of consequences. Aries and
Sagittarius are the most excitable signs... Aries - Easily angered and
then often go to great lengths." (Charles, E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia
of Psychological Astrology, pg 17, 78, 176) A truly dignified person
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maintains their dignity in the moments of humiliation by an unjust
authority. They respond to injustice with humility and meekness,
thus their dignity comes out to the full extent. Although they are
humble, their spirit is not humiliated. However, Aries represents the
type of people who are not capable of putting up with injustice. In
their humiliation they do not seem dignified, but humiliated and
offended. Behind their dignity there lies a huge proud Ego. The
whole psychological type of Aries and their defense mechanisms
result from their distinct pride. Pride makes a person self-sufficient,
so they regard any form of receiving or expressing true love as their
own humiliation. Hence the psychological type of Aries shows
extreme gratitude if we give them money they are going to spend on
fun and pleasure. But if we present them with a gift of the same
value which responds to their actual life needs (the need to eat, for
example), they will take it with a considerable amount of stress,
attempting to depreciate it at all costs (whether by promising a
counter-gift, saying we are obliged to help them or by subsequent
devaluation of the nobility of our motives to help them). Not only
the acceptance of love, but also its expression causes stress of
humiliation of their huge self-sufficient Ego. Of course, I am also
talking about true kindness here, not manipulating other people’s
weaknesses. Their kindness, since it’s desecrated by pride, is
engrained with defense mechanisms against their own humiliation.
Therefore, even their good and kind deeds are infested with
roughness: they have a need to pat a friend on a shoulder when they
have just expressed their care and affection towards them, or
communicate words to their spouse which diminish the spouse’s
love for them, or even use derogative terms of endearment instead of
diminutives towards children (brat, punk, horse, ass). For the same
reason, useful work is a humiliation to the psychological type of
Aries. Any activity which makes them serve or makes them useful
to others is a humiliation to them. Due to their pride, they do not
praise others because it makes them appear worthless. Any injustice
they are aware of, even if it was done to another person, they take
personally, and their wounded proud Ego urges them to make self-
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sacrificial heroic deeds. It is easier for them to lose their lives than
suffer humiliation under authority. They naturally fight not only
against negative authorities in society, but positive ones as well. The
very pride does not allow them to be liars, hypocrits, actors,
‘successful’ merchants or ‘good' politicians when it comes to
relations with another people. But the same pride makes them
vulnerable and therefore generators of discord and conflict with
other people.
LEO – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE DESIRE
FOR POWER
The psychological traits of Leo were caused by their desire
for power. Even their most harmless actions are a manifestation of
conscious or totally subconscious will to exert influence which is the
end in itself. Astrologers say that they are characterized by: "Desire
to rule and organize administration of people and areas, selfrestraint, strong influence upon people, height, posture, and good
leadership fits them... A man of will and order, superior. They are
not getting on when subservient. In situations like this their abilities
seem to be blocked. Faults: Self-overrating." (Mile Dupor, Do not
believe it, check it, pg 74) "They are natural-born leaders and feel
that their position in life is related to authority and organization. ...
Leo’s largest faults are intolerance, conceit, grandiosity and
extremely rigid way of thinking." (Nikola Ogrizović, Astrology, pg
17, 7) “They live beyond their boundaries, they tend to command
and are kind to their family only if they agree to listen to them.”
(Maja Lončarić, Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 55) If given a chance to
express themselves without restrictions (in conflicts, fights and war),
their desire for power will reveal a destructive, violent and ruinous
character, although they will show an affectionate spirit in everyday
life, which is nothing but the other face of the same desire to
influence other people. "Never overly sensitive to the feelings of
others, in spite of their basic kindness, most Leo men are so
wrapped up in themselves that they can be brutally frank and
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untactful." (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 192) Their desire for
power is manifested through the role of leaders and interest in
magic, which also has its religious form in the so-called charismatic
(spiritual) movements, then through political careerism, etc.
Moreover, the desire for power is their primaryy driving force which
is deeply plotted into all their activities and relationships with other
people. “"He (Leo) likes to protect and he is convinced that it is the
way to express his chivalry. However, the truth is a bit different. He
protects because he likes to control." (Hana Hart, A man in the
palm, pg 61) "The lion sometimes tends to marry beneath him. ... He
just can't resist acquiring a "subject" to whom he's superior." (Linda
Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 193) "The lower type brags about how
many connections they have in high society, about everyone
working according to their concepts, about their contacts with
politicians, ..." (Mile Dupor, Do not believe it, check it, pg 75)
Unlike Aries and Pisces, whose discontent is a temptation for either
hating others or whining over their destinies, the psychological type
of Leo is characterized by the lack of tendency to nourish negative
feelings, because they would desecrate the spirit of triumph and
victory. A potential failure is only a new challenge to start the
struggle once again with more fortitude and decisiveness than
before. The desire for power results in an unquenchable optimism
and positive feelings which characterize them even at the moments
of their most bizarre violent acts over their victims. If they nourish
hatred, they generally do it just to excuse their need for expressing
violence. Their greatest temptation lies in a fact that in most cases
they are not aware of the real nature of their primary driving force,
so they announce it a virtue. The uncontrollable desire for to power
turns the psychological type of Leo into a megalomaniac, which is a
psychopathological condition of a person characterized by mania of
grandeur, wealth, geniality and omnipotence. Secretly or to some
extent openly, megalomaniacs long to see or show themselves as
“masters of the world” who are superior to everyone else in regard
to certain dimensions or any regard whatsoever.
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GEMINI – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF
EXPLOITATION
As opposed to Libra, Sagittarius, Aries and Leo, the
psychological types of Gemini, Virgo and Cancer are not slaves to
mental notions about their magnitude (they are not proud), but their
feelings (they are selfish). Instead of pride, there is slavery to
emotional experience: a need to be loved, to possess, to belong, even
a need for intoxicating emotions that are accomplished by the use of
alcohol, through meditation or abuse of music and the like. But
unlike Virgo and Cancer, the Gemini type managed a great deal to
keep their judgment and consequently retain the ability of their will
to act in accordance with the actual life needs. Their selfishness is
nothing but egocentric rational exploitation. "Gemini is egoistic, but
also often selfish, frequently in a rather childish way." (Charles,
E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 75) The
hunting skill of catching apes is probably known to us all. A fruit is
put into a huge jar with a narrow bottleneck and the hunter waits for
a monkey to put its arm inside and clench the gain. When the hunter
comes close to it, the monkey naturally wants to run away but it
does not want to give up the fruit. It could keep its freedom if it let
go of the fruit and took out its hand, but the strong desire clouds its
mind. With the squeezed fruit in its hand, it becomes an easy prey
for the hunter. The cause of its tragedy lies in its irrationality. There
is a similarity between this and actions of most of the psychological
types we are talking about. Due to their offended vanity or their
selfish enjoyment, most people will show a foolish willingness to
endanger their existence, even their very lives. Most of them
abandon common sense because they cannot bear the disclosure of
their motives as meaningless. The psychological type of Gemini is
undoubtedly different. They will let go of the fruit on time and take
their hand out of the jar. After that they might consciously agree to
stay in the hunter’s hands, if he promises to give them the fruit.
Even if they rush into the selfish enjoyment they will do it with full
awareness. Under pressure of conscience they will not deceive
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themselves about being on the right track if they are not. Maybe the
conscience will be troubling them for some time. In that case, they
will consciously take alcohol and drink it as long as it takes to
silence the voice of conscience. The lack of emotional fervor by
which they usually calm their conscience makes them nervous and
creates a need to gossip because they feel more exalted and
righteous in the dark of the others’ weaknesses and stupidity –
which they easily recognize by their common sense, than in the light
of their own conscience. The astrologer Liz Greene gives an advice
as to how to win Gemini’s affection: "Gemini is also a bit of a
gossip - yes, the trait appears in the Gemini man as well as in the
Gemini woman - and a less pleasant adjective would be 'nosy' to
describe the intense curiosity with which Gemini approaches other
people." (Liz Greene, Astrology for Lovers, pg 245) But the need to
gossip is also characteristic of all the other types who are
expressively conscientious (of course, only when they in conflict
with their conscience), especially of the psychological type of Virgo
as well as Cancers and Scorpios. Geminies themselves have defense
mechanisms, if those reactions may be called so, which are utterly
sincere and pragmatic. They will not buy flattery or burden of guilt.
One cannot manipulate them by means of some ideology or religion.
They can be controlled only through their selfish interests or through
their selfish cowardice, because they are certainly not the people
who would sacrifice their lives for the sake of ideals. How to help
such a psychological type overcome themselves and become
humans? What is to be said to a person like that that they are not
already aware of on the basis of their common sense? There is one
essential question which is a taboo only for Gemini, and that is the
question of the fundamental meaning of being. As a meaning of life,
selfishness can never fulfill what it promises. No matter how strong,
lasting or sublime are the emotions the selfish heart is longing for,
they can never satisfy the soul. However, emotions are just
emotions, not the essence. They can only suffocate the awareness of
inner discontent, they cannot eliminate it. A person who has taken a
painkiller really does not feel any pain. But neither sensations nor
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feelings are relevant indicators of our real mental condition, no
matter how true they are. Just like a painkiller treats an uneasy
symptom and does not cure the cause itself – an illness, the
emotional pleasures also do not take away the mental problem. Deep
in the soul the discontent still remains. To change one’s feelings is
not the same as to change oneself. To become truly happy and not
only to feel happiness, they need to change their essence, not their
feelings. To feel happiness and to be happy is not the same thing.
VIRGO - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF SELFRIGHTEOUSNESS
Virgo is characterized by an set of virtues: neatness, tidiness,
diligence, etc., which is by any astrologer regarded as a sign of their
developed responsibility towards life. However, when we analyze
the other attributes of Virgo, we may wonder whether their
responsibility is real responsibility or perhaps just a burden of guilt.
The astrologer Linda Goodman wrote that Virgos have "deeply
rooted possessiveness" (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 232), which
means that Virgos do not really treat themselves responsibly
because they do not vanquish their inner weaknesses. Also, Linda
Goodman says that Virgos "put up with rules of discipline they don't
understand, because obedience to fate without struggling comes
naturally to them." (Ibid, pg. 229) If Virgos really were responsible,
they would take the responsibility to question the significance of
their motives and actions, not letting their actions be driven by the
principles whose righteousness they are not sure about. Virgos are
characterized by the irresponsibility of mind, and they only seem
responsible on the outside, because they are burdened with guilt.
They seek satisfaction of their guilty conscience in the rules which
they blindly and formally obey. Under the influence of guilt, Virgo
tends to merely prevent the expression of character weaknesses,
instead of resisting them, which makes Virgo a smooth hypocrite.
They will repent for something bad they have said or done, but not
because they are bad deep inside, for they are not aware that behind
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their bad actions (which they very rarely demonstrate indeed) there
are bad motives they need to repent for. If the weaknesses are only
suppressed, they are not replaced by virtues, which makes Virgos
cold and without creativity. Since deep inside they remain the same,
the guilty conscience remains too, and they will express it in relation
to other people through false moralizing. “Virgos are rather
complicated and contradictory because they constantly bear the
traces of fearfulness and a lack of self-confidence, which makes
them quite self-critical and hard on themselves. They are worried
about things for which they do not have a real reason for worry.
They have high personal standards and great expectations of their
own selves, and sometimes others. Their flaws are not huge, but
annoy those who live with them because they burden them with
unnecessary concern and demands.” (Society of Astrologers of
Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourself, pg 79) “Excessive
criticism, pedantry, petulance, over-humbleness, suppressing of
emotions, concern and meddling in others’ lives.” (Nikola
Ogrizović, Astrology, pg 8) The people belonging to the
psychological type of Virgo diligently take care of themselves, their
food and health, not because they love being healthy, but because
they are afraid of being ill: “They are fastidious and exacting in
grooming, eating, working and romance. He takes more baths and
showers than any four people you know put together. ... Sometimes
a Virgo will even tote his own water with him on trips. Don't laugh do you know what can happen to a person's stomach when certain
foreign bodies in strange drinking water enter the digestive system?”
(Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 220-221) "They do not talk much,
but mainly observe. They are dressed unobtrusively.” (Dr Milijana
Pušara, Love Horoscope, 114) "Virgo is generally neat and
particular about dress, but seldom overdresses." (Charles, E.O.
Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 11) The
psychological type of Virgo is characterized by extreme selfishness
(stinginess and possessiveness). When they meet a person whose
extroverted behavior they recognize as their own in form of
suppressed and unacknowledged motives, they tend to express
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contempt towards the person, and if a person is weaker than they
are, they even express violence, which would force the person into
the same hypocritical behavior they are forced into by their own
feeling of guilt. Their hypocrisy activates Pharisee-like intolerance,
contempt and repugnance towards the filthy, beggars, cripples and
overtly immoral persons. In Sun Signs we read that: "Though he has
absolutely no sympathy for beggars or idle wastrels, he is unfailingly
generous when a friend is in trouble. The Virgo who is almost miserly
where his personal needs are involved will make charming gestures of
financial aid to those who really deserve it, or to people he really likes
or loves. But you'll never find him throwing money away carelessly,
because waste is one of his pet peeves. Virgos labor hard for what they
have, and extravagance never fails to shock them. They usually have a
few sharp things to say about spendthrifts and people who are too lazy
to work. ... He won't take to lateness any more kindly than he does to
wastefulness. ... They hate gushy sentiment, dirt, vulgarity, slop-piness
and idleness. ... Virgos hate ignorance, stupidity and sloppy thinking
almost as much as they hate dirt and vulgarity, and that's a lot. ... Selfdiscipline is part of his very nature." (pg 225-226, 232) Virgos give
up the responsibility to reasonably question the righteousness of
their own motives and actions, for it would convince them of their
own emptiness, so they transfer the responsibility to the code of
conduct they blindly stick to and authorities they blindly obey. Such
a mechanism turns Virgo into an authoritarian (“Gestapo-like”)
personality with a need for authorities that think and decide instead
of themselves, as well as the scapegoats which are to blame instead
of themselves.
In 1950s a group of sociologists and psychologists (Adorno,
T.W. Frenkel-Brunswik, Else; Levinson. Daniel J. & Sanford, R.
Nevitt, The Authoritarian Personality, 1950) defined the fascist type
of authoritarian personality (F scale) by means of attributes which
correspond to the psychological type of Virgo:
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1)
Conventionalism
Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class
values
2) Authoritarian
submission
Submissive, uncritical attitude toward
idealized moral authorities of the in-group
3) Authoritarian
aggression
Tendency to be on the lookout for, and to
condemn, reject, and punish people who
violate conventional values
4) Antiintraception
Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative,
the tender-minded
5) Superstition
and stereotypy
the belief in mystical determinants of the
individual's fate; the disposition to think in
rigid categories
6) Power and
'toughness'
Preoccupation with the dominancesubmission, strong-weak, leader-follower
dimension; identification with power figures;
overemphasis upon the conventionalized
attributes of the ego; exaggerated assertion of
strength and toughness
7)
Destructiveness
and cynicism
Generalized hostility, vilification of the human
8) Projectivity
The disposition to believe that wild and
dangerous things go on in the world; the
projection of unconscious emotional impulses
9) Sex
Exaggerated concern with sexual 'goings-on'
The other psychological types can also be authoritarian, especially in
stressful circumstances, but their authoritarianism is different from Virgo’s.
The authoritarianism of Aries and Sagittarius excludes items 2, 4 and 5 from
the above quoted F scale, whereas Cancer’s authoritarianism lacks items 3,
4, 6 and 9. Item 4 is characteristic of Virgo’s authoritarianism only.
CANCER- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF SELFISH
SENTIMENTALITY
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If the psychological type of Gemini burdened themselves
with guilt for their exploitations, they would assume the traits of
Virgo. But if Virgos confronted their own coldness and emptiness,
which are a result of their burden with guilt, and if they decided to
fill the emptiness of their souls not with the actual repentance for the
suppressed motives of behavior, but aroused sentimental emotions
(for instance, by drinking an alcoholic drink or meditating), they
would assume the attributes typical of the psychological type of
Cancer. So, unlike Virgos, who delude themselves and their need to
reform their character by changing their outer behavior, Cancers
delude themselves by changing their emotions. Cancer’s emotions
perform multiple wrong functions: they are aroused to appease
selfishness (an object of pleasure), to sooth guilty conscience (as a
‘proof’ of love), then as a driving force (fanaticism), and they rely
on them thus sacrificing their common sense when it comes to
judging whether something is right or wrong. By creating in
themselves emotions which are not adequate to reality, the Cancer
type loses contact with reality and forms mental notions about the
events in the outer world in accordance with their false optimism.
Such life philosophy degrades them to the level of an infant whose
imagination fuses with reality thus living in their own imaginary
world. Out of fear not to threaten their pleasant emotions which they
find intrinsically important (for they are the object of their selfish
pleasure), they show reluctance to face their own life responsibility.
Perhaps the best way to explain the functioning of Cancer’s defense
mechanisms is by illustrating the example of a mother who is
negligent to the actual needs of her child and is therefore tormented
by guilty conscience. In order to calm her conscience, instead of
repentance of her negligence and reform of her inner motives, she
begins to arouse sentimental feelings for her child to the extremes,
therewith deluding her conscience. As the aroused feelings of love
towards her child become the object of her unvanquished
characteristic selfishness, she becomes extremely selfish and
possessive in relation to her child (and therefore quite vulnerable
and often concerned). When she seeks help from a psychologist as a
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result, saying: "I love my child too much!” the psychologist easily
suspects the mechanism of reverse behavior. Of course it is not
possible to love someone too much. The term “too much” is a result
of her defense against the voice of guilty conscience warning her
that there is still no true love in her heart. If there were true love, she
would not "buy" and "bribe" her child by succumbing to its selfish
urges, but reasonably look for whatever is truly good and healthy for
it. While the mother refers to the emotion of love as a proof that she
truly loves her child, the psychologist can succeed in explaining the
mother her real condition and the need for inner reform - reform of
motives, not emotions, by means of a rational analysis of the
meaning of her actions towards her child. Analyzing the meaning of
a particular behavior can lead a drug addict to the conclusion that his
strong feeling of love towards his girlfriend is not a criterion of his
actual love towards her when he offers her narcotics in an outburst
of emotions. The psychological type of Cancer faces the same kind
of temptation when they are realize that their emotions most often
represent the defense against their conscience due to lack of love
rather than being a sign of love. Instead of relying on their emotions,
Cancers should awake the underdeveloped forces of their common
sense to realize that positive emotions are not a criterion of what is
right and good. They should understand that, by avoiding negative
thoughts and emotions and arousing emotions of love in themselves,
they will not succeed in uprooting evil from their hearts and
reaching true love in doing so. By avoiding thoughts and emotions
adequate to reality they merely eliminate the cause of manifestation
of the actual substance of their being. Emotions should be adequate
to reality, but if we escape reality to make our own feelings
comfortable, we become immature for any kind of stress that will
force us, one way or another, into confrontation with the actual
substance of our soul and lead us into heavy depression. Selfishness
naturally leads to disappointment in life, for life is not here to satisfy
and fulfill us, we are here to fulfill it and make it meaningful. By
liberating themselves from unreasonable optimism and de-tabooing
the concept of self-examination the persons who belong to this
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psychological type can find themselves on the road to liberation
from themselves. If not, they will find themselves on the road to
mental illness (manic-depressive psychosis). Astrologers specify
Cancer’s traits which are representatives of their temptation: “They
fall under the influence, yielding to the weakening point, change
mood according to the weather and Moon, their character is nothing
but a sum of experiences.” (Mile Dupor, Do not believe it, check it,
pg 70)
PISCES - THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF DEPRESSION
It is easier to follow the path of least resistance through life
and give up the responsibility of being a adult than solve life
temptations in a mature and responsible manner. Astromedicine by
Mile Dupor offers us an insight into the psychological
characteristics of Pisces: “They are victims of circumstance. Looks
for punishment. Victim; goes with the flow, cannot untangle from
the net that has been placed. They long to be manipulated. They are
timid, quiet, shy, wait for their beloved one to meet by chance: a
wave needs a current. Kind to the weakening point. They go through
life suffering for the sake of ideals and children. Poor is the their
mother as they get used by others. They long and perish for
intangible ideals. Longing, roads, and sweet sufferings. Tears are a
powerful weapon." (Astromedicine, pg 104, 123, 131, 133, 139, 142)
In Sun Signs we read as follows: "The more creative and artistic, the
more leisurely and esoteric the surroundings, the more fish you'll
find. ... There's little worldly ambition in Neptune people. ... There's
a lack of intensity, almost a carelessness about tomorrow. ... It's
never easy for either real or human fish to struggle and fight their
way upstream. It's more common, and it takes less effort, to go with
the current wherever it takes them. But to swim upstream is the
challenge of Pisces-and the only way he ever finds true peace and
happiness. Taking the easy way is a trap for those born under this
Sun sign, a glittering bait that entices them, while it hides the
dangerous hook -a wasted life. ... You'll be impressed with the
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Piscean charm of manner and lazy good nature. Tell a Piscean that
society is decadent, the government is cracking, air pollution will
put us all in our graves and the world is coming to a dead stop, and
he'll yawn, or smile enchantingly, or look vaguely sympathetic. ...
Typical Pisces will normally take the path of least resistance... If
reality becomes too terrible to face, he often escapes into rosy
daydreams with powder puff foundations and not a prayer of coming
true. When life dumps him with a splash-a real belly-smacker-into a
stagnant river of dismal failure and hopeless conditions, instead of
leaping out of the murky danger, he's more inclined to hide behind
his pale green illusions which keep him from making practical
decisions." (Sun Signs, pg 501) Astrologer Maja Lončarić wrote
about male Pisces: “A man is looking for a woman who is always
there to comfort him when he is facing hard times.” (Astrology –
Stars Talk, pg 17) People who belong to the psychological type of
Pisces are characterized by a tendency to present themselves as
miserable and incapable of bearing the burden of life responsibility
on their backs, so by whining over themselves and their supposed
misfortune they try to assure their conscience that they are not to
blame for the consequences of irresponsibility in their lives, but that
they are victims of various life opportunities and predicaments. Such
an attitude mentally topples them down into two kinds of evil:
ungratefulness and immature response to stress. If they cherished the
feelings of gratitude, they would have no excuse for whining. If
their response to stressful situations was mature, they would have no
excuse for their grumbling as well, for all of their problems would
be solved. In order to have excuses, they must whine constantly, and
all their quests for solutions are merely games they play with a
subconscious desire to turn their quests and endeavors into failures,
the failures which will give them a reason to self-pity and whine
over themselves again. For instance, if you tap a Pisces on the
shoulder in the moment of crisis, they will become even more sad to
the point of beyond consolation, not less, which should serve as a
warning to those who console them that they are about to be
involved in a "game" with a predetermined outcome, because Pisces
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subconsciously wants to stay Pisces. Pisces are comfortable with
depression, although they are not comfortable with its symptoms negative emotions themselves and unsettling relationships with
other people. The psychological type of Pisces always tries to
eliminate their depressive feelings by means of various techniques
(most often with cheerful music), but does not want to give up the
roots of their depression because they are afraid to encounter life
responsibilities and maturity it requires. Instead of themselves,
Pisces blame other people for their condition, or even blame destiny
which they see as a damnation of sorts, so they think that their way
out of the depression is not in responsible willful action, longing and
struggle to make their lives better and more beautiful, but in chance
and fortune which may finally smile upon them. Hence their
inclination to superstition, mysticism and magic. At the same time
they are very afraid of the fact that destiny may smile upon them,
because in such a case they will no longer have an excuse for their
inner discontent and irresponsibility. The psychological type of
Pisces often leads themselves into a state of depression. For
example, they give in to nostalgic feelings, brooding over good old
times to present themselves as losers, and in this way generate a
feeling of self-pity which will make them miserable and therefore
irresponsible again. With their mechanisms they look like an injured
cat licking and nibbling her wounded leg, until the leg eventually
falls off. The only way for a person to beat Pisces’ psychological
mechanisms in themselves is to look for the strength and motivation
needed to overcome their condition outside the mechanisms of
Pisces in themselves, which implies confronting their own defense
mechanisms, resisting their influence and yielding to the spirit of
unselfish gratitude and creative responsibility. What Pisces expect
of other people and life most often is the very thing they fail to offer
to other people and life. They should not give in to despair for their
“ill fate”, but take it into their own hands and make it the way it
should be. However, confronting their own selves is very difficult
for Pisces, as it is to Cancer, because they regard such penetration
into the personality as breaking a taboo which is not to be interfered
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with. Clothed in their ideology or religion, they do not allow their
fundamental principles of being to come into question. Although
their depression is a certain admission that they have a problem,
they do not allow the problem to be interfered with. It implies that
their basic life principles are right, but that there is someone else to
blame for their problems.
SECONDARY PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES OF ZODIAC
SIGNS (TAURUS, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN)
The secondary psychological types are compounds of
various combinations of the basic psychological types. As a matter
of fact, the three male fiery signs of Leo, Sagittarius and Aries,
when merged and softened with the psychological influence of
Virgo, Cancer and Gemini, result in the forming of Taurus,
Aquarius and Capricorn. In practice, these compounds are more
common than the types of basic signs. Since the secondary signs are
compounds of the basic signs, we will refrain from further repetition
of explanations referring to the basic signs they are made of, since
they have already been explained, but we will only show that the
basic signs appear in the secondary ones.
TAURUS – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPOUND OF LEO
AND VIRGO
The psychological type of Taurus is a compound and
interaction of Leo and Virgo. An amalgam of Leo’s desire for power
and Virgo’s possessiveness, we can clearly see it in the description
of Taurus by the astrologer Mile Dupor: “The will is melancholic,
latent and more directed towards the power over things. The
temperament: reserved, conservative, but also generous and
tolerant." (Mile Dupor, Don't believe it, check it, pg 61)
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AQUARIUS – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPOUND OF
GEMINI AND VIRGO
The psychological type of Aquarius represents a combination
and interaction of Gemini and Virgo, wherein the Gemini type is
dominant. "Generally kindly and tranquil by nature, Aquarians
nevertheless enjoy defying public opinion." (Linda Goodman, Sun
Signs, pg 444)
CAPRICORN – THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPOUND OF
ARIES AND CANCER
The psychological type of Capricorn is a combination and
interaction of Aries and Cancer. Unlike Aries, who cannot put up
with injustice, Cancer easily puts up with it. Unlike Aries, who is
proud but unselfish, Cancer is meek but selfish. Unlike Aries, who is
rebellious and open, Cancer is fearful and timid. Unlike Aries, who
is unconscientious and lazy, Cancer is conscientious and diligent.
Unlike Aries, who is too proud to deal with their own emotions,
Cancer abuses them in any way. We recognize their interaction in
the astrological attributes of Capricorn: "He has a self-made brick
wall around him. He's shy, but he's strong and tough. He's pleasant,
but he's fiercely ambitious... In his private dreams, the goat is an
incurable romantic, but Saturn chains his nature. The stern planet of
discipline demands of him calm behavior, practical actions and
serious intent. This is his cross, and it's often a heavy one to bear.
Sometimes he'll cover his frustration with a brusque manner...
Capricorns pretend they can live without compliments, and the way
they behave when they get one is pretty convincing proof. Actually,
he desperately needs to be told he is good, clever, handsome,
desirable and interesting, but since he'll seldom make his need
visible, he gets few orchids. (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 412)
The dual nature of Capricorn was described by astrologer Ljiljana
Milajić: “It should be noted that there are two different types of
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Capricorns – one is unusually stingy, the other extremely generous.
These are capable and decisive people, usually successful in most of
the activities they perform, because they approach everything they
do with great sense of duty and discipline. They generally like
money - not for the sake of money, but for the power it brings.
Naturally, the other, more generous type of Capricorn is a little
different, but they also like to possess for the sake of reputation and
prestige." (Ljiljana Milajić, The Horoscope, "Woman 21" magazine,
issue 7, May-June 2001, Australia)
WHY DO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES NOT POSSESS
REAL VIRTUES?
As we have stated before, the psychological types are
products of motives which cannot bear the criticism of common
sense and personality defense mechanisms which people use to
defend themselves from their own voice of reason and conscience
asking for reform. We have seen that the same motives are hidden
beneath both their flaws and virtues. When an astrologer divides a
Zodiac sign to morally “higher” and “lower”, they do not talk about
different motives, but different sublimations of one and the same
motive, or about the defense mechanisms which induce one to
behave in a morally “elevated” manner. However, a truly grown
adult is the one who defeats the bad motive, not the one who
suppresses, sublimates or redirects it.
How can we say whether our own “elevated" behavior is a
sign of the sublimation of motives which are essentially bad or it
represents a true growing up of our personality? By our reaction at
the time of unpleasant stressful circumstances! The very
circumstances we refer to as the excuse for our bad reactions test our
true motives. In the stressful situations our true motives find an
occasion to come out and reveal their true nature. Under the pressure
of temptation in form of food or tobacco indulgence, the Scorpio
type will put their health in danger. In a stressful period the Virgo
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type will be inclined towards a suspicious "Gestapo-like" spirit and
therefore show readiness to endanger their own and other's welfare
for the sake of blind observance of principles. The Cancer type will
demonstrate cowardly betrayal of a friend under the pressure of
unjust authority. The Libra type will demonstrate the same cowardly
betrayal, not because of their own selfish fear, but the vain fear of
losing the approval of society. The Aries type will in times of stress
transform their self-sacrificing courage into madness; their own
wounded pride into hatred and destruction. The Leo type will be a
close and devoted friend, until the person they love elevate
themselves above them in terms of their values. The Gemini type
will show a noble character until their own personal interests
become endangered.
Can we call some elements of man’s personality virtues if
they reveal a flawed character just when they should prove to be
virtues? Of course not! Behind various virtues there are often flaws,
which reveal their true nature only in times of stress. Because of this
fact, a stressful situation is not as bad as it may seem, since it can
make us become aware of the actual content of our motives. They
therefore give us a chance to beat these motives and thus reform our
true character. When a person truly conquers the temptation of the
motives which characterize their psychological type, they liberate
themselves from their great Ego and their defense mechanisms, so
we cannot say that they have a corresponding Zodiac sign. For
instance, it is known that the psychological sign of Aries is
incapable of putting up with injustice due to their pride and
rebellious nature. But, should they beat their pride and rebellious
nature to stand injustice with meekness and humility, would it not be
utterly meaningless to say that they have a corresponding Zodiac
sign of Aries whose character is defined as: “Proud, vengeful, quicktempered” (Mile Dupor, Do not believe it, Check It, pg 74)?!
The nature of temptation is such that, if we respond to it with
maturity, we acquire traits contrary to our Zodiac sign. A mature
reaction make the proud become humble, rebellious become meek,
selfish - unselfish, vengeful - merciful, cowardly become brave,
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unreasonable become reasonable, unconscientous - conscientious,
immoderate - moderate, and so forth. It is therefore entirely
inadequate to attribute the Virgo sign to a person if the person
defeats their stinginess and becomes generous; or to attribute the
Cancer sign to the one who is not possessive, etc. The one who
maturely overcomes temptations in life does not behave in
accordance with their Zodiac sign, but with conscience and common
sense, purposefully to the real needs of life, free of any typology of
Zodiac signs.
Our life needs also include the needs of our spouse. Our
readiness and ability to live for someone else certainly indicates a
healthy development of our personality, which moved from
childlike egoistic self-absorption to the path of growing up to
complete maturity where we are able to live for others. This raises
the question:
Do astrology and its findings help us successfully overcome
temptations in choosing our spouse and building marital relationship
itself?
Many believe that we explore horoscope just to find out how
to beat life temptations. Therefore the question of whether astrology
helps us in beating those temptations is justifiable. Or is it perhaps
keeping us from doing so?
ASTROLOGY AND MARRIAGE
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The time when our parents chose our spouse is now long
gone. The time has come when young people decide, on the basis of
their love for one another, to start a future life together. They may
think of the patriarchal times with appall, when they would be in a
slave-like relationship with a person they did not choose voluntarily,
waking up every morning beside someone who is a stranger to their
heart. However, without proper understanding of the concept of
marital decision even their present relationship, based on their
mutual true emotions, might suffer the same fate. One day, when the
emotions go silent, they would wake up beside a person they have
never really chosen to love. Instead of themselves, the marital
decision has been made by their emotions. One day, when the
emotions have vanished, the decision has vanished with them.
Actually, it would turn out that a true decision of free will never
existed. To have free will does not mean to make decisions
according to current impulses, emotions and urges of one’s own
nature, but to make decisions without regard to them, and to bring
into one’s life the quality of experience which makes the
relationship filled with the most supreme contents and meaning.
One’s decision to love can fill their whole relationship with
love, even if it was empty and slavish for decades. A real marital
decision, which stands on the foundations of unselfish love, is a
condition for marriage to actually be marriage.
By definition, marriage is a vow of love, which implies us
making a responsible life decision to live for our spouse, to take care
of them and serve them, to show willingness to sacrifice for them all
those character flaws which might be an obstacle to our common
happiness. In making a marital decision – a vow a love, we are
naturally confronted with our own character weaknesses which
prevent us from making the decision.
Selfish motives of human nature which give rise to
intentions to emotionally and sensually use the spouse either result
fear of marriage or impulsive, inconsiderate and irresponsible
marriage, without a true decision for the other person. By solely
announcing a relationship an official marital union, but without
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awareness of mutual responsibility and the decision to live for one
another, nothing magical will be done to make such a relationship
better than the one which is not formally called marriage. One needs
to beat oneself, their selfishness and sensuality, otherwise the fear of
their non-fulfillment, losing a better opportunity, etc. gets in their
way of making a real marital decision. Unless they beat their
selfishness and sensuality, they will not have courage for making a
marital decision, or they will base the decision on their unconquered
selfishness and sensuality themselves. The same weaknesses that
made them start a relationship might one day be the cause of its
breakup, once they are no longer satisfied, or when directed to
satisfy themselves by someone else.
The first question one has to ask themselves when choosing
a spouse is not – “Can I love him/her?“, but “Am I the kind of
person who is able to love him/her? Is it over with my selfishness,
sensuality, pride, vain oversensitiveness, my desire for power and
perhaps my cynicism and grumpiness?“ As long as we are leaving
the essential question of our spirit unanswered, we will not be ready
to consider the quality of our potential spouse objectively, because
we will be limited by the question whether we like them or not.
The reason why we love someone should lie in our hearts,
our love, not the values of that person which make us love them in
this case. Only when we become capable of loving them regardless
of their values and shortcomings, we should start analyzing whether
they are truly the right person for marriage, that is, whether we will
truly be friends, willing and capable of helping each other in life.
The fear of getting married, which is a natural result of
awareness of all the responsibilities of marital vows, might not be
overcome in a mature way and thus form a need in us to give up the
responsibility of choosing a spouse. The lack of true foundations of
the marital decision is frequently manifested through one’s need to
let someone or something else make the decision. Naturally, such
transfer of responsibility reveals the lack of love. In this case, we
will analyze the phenomenon of transferring the responsibility for
choosing a spouse to the astrological factor and astrological advice.
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HOW DO ADVICES BASED ON TRUST IN THE
ASTROLOGICAL PHENOMENON WORK?
Let us look at the example of advice given by astrologers to
the persons born under two mutually “inadequate” Zodiac signs. We
will analyze the relationship between the people belonging to the
signs which are extremely different, because their relationships have
the most expressive consequences of unconquered temptations,
which to a lesser extent characterize the other signs and the
relationships between them.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CANCER AND ARIESSELFISHNESS VS PRIDE
The astrological authority describes the relation between
Cancer and Aries as follows: “The emotions do not concord, both of
them suffer. Conflicts related to house, apartment, parents, family
and country." (Mile Dupor, Astromedicine, pg 102) There are
differences between Cancer and Aries which lead astrologers to the
conclusion that their relationship cannot be successful. However, on
a global level, mental differences between partners already exist
based on their sexes, so if these natural differences between male
and female views of the world, types of intelligence, interests, etc.
are not kept from abuse and perversion, they themselves will,
instead of being a source of mutual welfare, become a source of
conflict of these partners and failure of their relationship. Following
the logic of astrologers, one may conclude that even the members of
the opposite sexes should not be involved in a relationship because
they are different and because these differences might ruin their
relationship. There are differences between Cancer and Aries which
are typical for male and female sex. Aries, alongside with
Sagittarius and Leo, is considered to be a typical male Zodiac sign,
whereas Cancer is regarded as a typical female sign. Aries’ pride
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and vanity on one side, and Cancer’s selfish sentimentality on the
other, represent different temptations typical for both sexes. Due to
the differences in temptations which stem from sexual differences,
astrologers conclude that the relationship between Aries and Cancer
is doomed to failure. Naturally, their relationship will be doomed to
failure if they give up the responsibility which makes them human,
and that is the responsibility to not abuse their sexual characteristics
to their own end, but to use them for mutual welfare, which is why
they exist. Aries’ temptation is to abuse the attribute of their male
authority, perverting it into pride and self-sufficiency, which is why
they find an open expression or reception of love in the
communication with their partner to be humiliating. Pride can even
be a temptation to a female Aries, the woman – Eve, who
experiences humiliation at the thought that she was made of Adam's
rib. She prefers the thought of having been made like a man- out of
the dust of the earth than the thought of having been made out of
beloved’s rib. Unlike Aries, Cancer’s temptation is a typical female
temptation. Abuse of emotions makes Cancer selfish, burdened with
proofs of love and acceptance. Cancer's unquenchable need for
everyday signs of love by their partner Aries, who out of pride
hesitates to show their love openly, leads to a heavy mutual conflict.
Is seeking a partner who will put up with Aries’ pride or maybe
Cancer’s obsessive need for proofs of love a solution? Or maybe the
solution lies in repentance for your own pride and selfishness?
Should you change a partner or your own self? Astrological advice
discourages you in advance, telling you to give up the fight for the
quality of your soul, which conditions the quality of your
relationship. Nevertheless, victory over your own weakness will
give the right example and encourage the other side to beat
themselves. What can break a proud heart of a typical Aries more
easily and successfully than gentle, unselfish and unburdening love
of a former Cancer who beat their selfishness? What will
disencumber a selfish and obsessive Cancer than an example of
unselfish and meek love of a former Aries who beat their pride?
Temptations are challenges for us to beat them and show that the
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person we love is more important to us than our character
weaknesses.
THE RELATION BETWEEN CANCER AND SAGITTARIUS
– POSSESSIVENESS AND REVOLT AGAINST MARITAL
BONDAGE
“In a relationship with a Cancer a Sagittarius feels like
buried alive. In order to preserve the relationship, a restless
Sagittarius would have to give up having fun, flirting, and even
eyeing off with the opposite sex. They will certainly not give up
their free will which allows them to do what they please, which is
totally unacceptable to the sensitive and possessive Cancer.”
(Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, pg 58) As we can see, an
astrologer predicts a failure of such a relationship, because they
reckon that a Sagittarius will surely not give up their shortcomings
which basically make them incapable of having any kind of marital
relationship. In the same fashion, the astrologers come to terms with
Cancer’s possessiveness, the trait which also hinders Cancer’s
healthy relationship with any other person. Unless they beat their
weaknesses which make them recognizable among Zodiac signs,
both types will, in essence, remain deeply incapable of having not
only a marital relationship, but a healthy, happy and normal life.
Sagittariuses will not be happy nor pleased as long as they cherish in
their hearts a desire which leads them to “hunt”, flirt and conquer
other people and thus cheat on their spouses. Nor will Cancer be
happy as long as they are moved by a need to possess people and
things. In order to love other people and live for them (which is a
cornerstone of relationships with other people), one must
beforehand be unburdened, genuinely pleased and happy. Neither
the conquering pleasures of Sagittarius nor the emotional
(possessive) pleasures of Cancer can satisfy them; they can merely
suffocate the awareness of their inner discontent. Their only true
solution is not to gratify their weaknesses, but to repent from them.
But, instead of employing self-criticism and questioning their
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actions and impulses of their hearts, astrology with its superstitious
correlations induces people to draw attention from the source of
their problem to the excuse for their weaknesses which they find in
the stars, and, discouraged by “cosmic order” or “superior force”,
abandon the fight for an honest relationship with their spouse.
Different kinds of temptations of the psychological types of
Sagittarius and Cancer is exactly why they can be right for each
other, because they can clearly see each other's weaknesses that
need to be overcome in order for their relationship to be based upon
love, instead of the weaknesses which might have been the cause of
their bonding one day, and the cause of their parting the other. The
greatest obstacle in building and maintaining a marital relationship
is not the spouses themselves being inadequate, but the absence of
spouses’ good will to enhance the quality of their relationship. If a
union of two people is based on selfishness and sensuality, spouses
cease to be interesting to one another over time, because it is natural
that they gets accustomed to constant sensual and emotional
experiences. However, if the union is based on true unselfish love,
spouses in time become more interesting to one another, because
they gradually get to know each other better and respond to one
another’s needs more successfully. While in the first case the couple
can sadly state that they find each other boring, in the other they will
joyfully say that they got to love their spouse even more in the
meantime. Those who are not ready to sacrifice and forsake their
own selves (and the weaknesses of their character) in order to fight
to strengthen the relationship are not worthy of the blessings of
marriage. The most an astrologer can do is to invite one to change
their own behavior instead of their partner. Yet, to change one's
behavior is not to change oneself. Astrological advice, based on trust
in the determination of human character by the position of the stars,
does not attempt to entice us to change ourselves, in which case any
similarity to our Zodiac sign would be wiped off, and our future life
would be free of any need for horoscope. To change a policy of
relationships with other people is in essence craftiness, but to
change oneself, that means to truly become human.
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THE RELATION BETWEEN CANCER AND LEO –
COWARDICE VS VIOLENCE
The relation between Cancer and Leo represents the relation
between a subordinate and a dominant person. In the relation
between men and women there is a natural difference in the
responsibilities of different sexes which complement each other. It is
natural that a woman is dependent on a man, as much as it is natural
that a man is independent and capable of providing a woman with
psychophysical security. Even when the most passionate feminists
ask the state to ensure their rights, in a way, they ask the state to
take over a protective role of a stronger man. Nevertheless, an
authoritarian relationship may be formed between the sexes, where
one person domineers over the personality of another. It takes two
people to build such a depraved relationship. It is most characteristic
of the relationship of the psychological types of Leo and Cancer due
to their complementary weaknesses. Leo naturally tends to domineer
over the personality of other people, practicing violence over their
will, reason and conscience. They find this to be easiest in a
relationship with the Cancer type, for this type generally tends to
give up the responsibility for their actions and leave it to somebody
else to think and decide instead of them, whether willingly or out of
fear of authority. Such a pathological relationship, where a Cancer
renounces their personal attributes to satisfy a violent Leo may seem
to be very successful. Both partners can seem very content.
Sometimes we can clearly see Cancer's mentally “broken"
personality, without them being aware of the grave state of their
own condition. The reason for this lies in the fact that the Cancer
type is prone to showing mechanisms of reverse behavior in their
subordinate attitude towards Leo, sucking up to their master,
flattering them, using diminutives while they speak to them, which
reveals that their attitude of loyalty is intertwined with cowardice
and fear on a subconscious level. If the psychological type of Cancer
became aware of the true nature of their attitude, then they could
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solve the problem. But, they are prone to using various absurdities
to excuse and justify their authoritarian attitude towards Leo. Do
astrologers attempt to make Cancer aware of their temptation? Do
they make Leo pay attention to their disrespect of other person’s
personality and violence over their conscience? Let us take a look at
the advice astrologers give for such a combination: “This kind of
incongruous combination of fire and water in life is often quite
successful. Leos are to give credit for that, it seems, for they
willingly accept to be victims of flightiness and whimsicality of
Cancers, who use the generosity of Leos to a maximum extent.”
(Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and
Yourselves, pg 71) We can see that astrologers support Cancer’s
subordinate and authoritarian attitude towards Leo. If Cancer was
aware of their slavery, then they and their temptation would be
closer the one of Gemini, who is characterized by rationality and
awareness of the temptation. Does the astrological advice in this
case give comfort to Gemini, saying that they have the freedom of
will to resist their subordination to Leo? Let us examine the
astrological advice: “Leo’s paw has taken hold and it will not let go
of the prey! Poor Gemini has no chance to get away here. They will
realize that no trick in their arsenal can move Leo from their
position of master and will remain their slave and follower."
(Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and
Yourselves, pg 71) So, if one is not aware of their slavery due to
their emotional exhilaration, astrologers flatter them that it is the
sign of their master's good faith. Astrologers then do not see the
Leo's paw over that person. But, if one is aware of their slavery, they
claim that they have no strength to liberate themselves from it.
THE RELATION BETWEEN SCORPIO AND VIRGO –
SEXUAL OBSESSION VS ASEXUALITY
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Sexually obsessed Scorpio type and the Virgo type which is
barely interested in sex naturally come into conflict due to their
sexual incompatibility. Unlike Scorpio, who seeks the cure for their
inner discontent in sexual pleasure, Virgo seeks satisfaction in the
purity of their conscience. Each has their source of satisfaction
which, in practice, results in their mutual incompatibility. Each of
them shows that they have a need which is more important to them
than their partner. Virgo reveals the problem of unclear conscience
which burdens them during almost any sensual pleasure. Scorpio
reveals the inclination towards sensuality due to which the purpose
of their sexuality is not to express love towards their partner, but to
attempt to reach their own. Everyone has a conscience problem
when they are moved by sinful motives, but there are differences
between people and the way they solve the conflicts with their
conscience. The Virgo type has emotions and feelings which are
meagerly expressed, so it is easier for them to hypocritically hinder
the expression of their weaknesses and enjoy the peace of their
superficial legalistic conscience. They have a tendency to shift guilt,
so instead of feeling guilty about their motives which are actually
sinful, they often feel guilty for the actions which do not express the
essential problem. The Scorpio type has intensely expressed
emotions and feelings, so it is easier for them to suffocate the voice
of their unclear conscience by indulging in sensual pleasures. The
relationship between Scorpio and Virgo leads to the expression of
their mutually adverse mechanisms and behavioral motives, so it
gives them the opportunity to become aware of them and beat them.
If Virgo's heart is genuinely pure, their conscience will be too, and
they will not have any inner obstacles which would prevent them
from expressing their love through sexuality, which would be
adequate to the needs of their life companion. If Scorpio is truly
moved by sincere love, they will not be tempted if their partner does
not show an everyday interest in sexual contact with them. Besides,
sexual intercourse takes just a small amount of time and
communication which pervades a relationship of two people in love.
If they are truly in love, they will be interested in recognizing all the
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needs of their companion to be fulfilled. Their sexual relationship
will be unburdened and free, whether of Scorpio's personal need for
satisfaction, or of Virgo's self-righteous tendency to feel guilty about
it. It will not be a substitute for love, nor a source of happiness, but
merely a way to express love, an occasion to share the happiness of
spirit. Sexuality nowadays has a distorted function with almost all
the psychological types, for it is awaken without marital vows, for
personal satisfaction; in this manner people are becoming unable to
perform a healthy function of sexuality in marriage.
THE ROLE OF ASTROLOGICAL ADVICE- CONCLUSION
Unprepared to take over the responsibility for their lives,
people have a need for different excuses, including horoscope, for it
liberates them from their own responsibility for their actions and
flatters them that their relationship with the partner will go into the
right direction, or perhaps discourages them, telling them that they
are doomed to failure, regardless of their efforts to maintain the
relationship.
What can be said to those who explore the future of their
relationship in horoscope analysis?
If you expect a lucky star to contribute something to your
relationship that is up to you and your partner, you do not need to be
wise to understand that such a relationship is doomed to failure, not
for some mystical reasons, but because its quality and success are up
to you. Your relationship will possess as much quality as you give to
it yourselves, and as much success as you sacrifice yourselves for
each other. Besides, what would you think of yourselves as
conscious and responsible individuals if it was not up to you alone?
How pleased would you be with the fortune of your love if you only
acted as audience, without will and participation in creating and
developing your own relationship?
Yet, horoscope can tell you that your partner is not right for
you and that you are not right for him or her because your characters
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are mutually intolerable. What does it mean? In other words, it
means that you both have serious character flaws which prevent you
from getting along, because they make you stand in each other’s
way. But, if you truly love each other, why not sacrifice the
character flaws for the sake of your love? Would you rather
cultivate your flaws than build your love relationship? The very
differences that might stand in your way can help you develop
yourselves in terms of the flaws you have not even been aware of.
The differences between the two of you are not necessarily as bad as
such, because you need to complement each other, not merely exist
double up. If you truly love each other, would it really be difficult
for you to promise that you would do anything for the sake of the
other? If you are not prepared to make such a sacrifice, then there is
no person who deserves to build a relationship with you. What is the
value of your relationship if it is not a result of the mutual decision
to live for one another? How much do you appreciate the love of
your partner if you have more trust in the stars than their true will to
love you and live for you? Can you feel gratitude for the partner
who loves you, not because they were tempted, stood the tests of life
and thus chose to love you themselves, but because some superior
force influenced them despite their will and choice? Naturally,
marriage which was in essence not chosen by us is not worthy of
surviving as a successful one. A true marital relationship is a
decision based on unselfish and self-sacrificial love and it is
developed throughout temptations of life. Only when a marital
decision is not based on readiness to fight for the person one has
chosen will they have a need to look for advice and safety of their
relationship in astrological predictions, giving up their responsibility
for the quality and success of their relationship.
WHEN AND WHY WE CAN RECOGNIZE OURSELVES IN
OUR ZODIAC SIGN?
Let us note that astrology assigns a certain type of character
that we only have when we exclude mature reaction of reason,
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conscience and will from our personality, behaving irresponsibly
towards the temptations we face.
People do have the tendencies astrology ascribes to them as
personal traits, but they also have the abilities to overcome them by
reason, conscience and will. However, if they behave irresponsibly,
letting bad tendencies of their nature and defense mechanisms of
unclear conscience govern them, odds are that they will recognize
themselves in the horoscope.
There is a possibility to be accidentally born under a Zodiac
sign or ascendant whose psychological type and its description best
correspond to the behavioral motives and defense mechanisms that
we are naturally prone to, and therefore, due to the recognized
similarity, arrive at the conclusion that an astrological factor
irrefutably exists. That is why different horoscopes simultaneously
“function” in practice (Western, Indian, Chinese, Aztec, etc.), even
though they provide often mutually contradictory predictions of the
character of people born on a certain date in a certain place.
Naturally, since people with certain psychophysical characteristics
are born at every moment in every month, there can always be an
accidental match between traits of a person and horoscopic
predictions of any horoscope system.
Now we need to explain why there are differences between
the psychological types based on which astrologers classify people
as different Zodiac signs. What influences us to abuse our emotions
(corresponding to the Cancer type in its most extreme variety), or to
abuse the mental notions about our own worth (corresponding to the
Libra type), or our senses (corresponding to the Scorpio type), or
perhaps to smother our urges influenced by our sense of guilt
(corresponding to the Virgo type)?
Everyone abuses what they have most at their disposal,
depending on their inheritance and external influences. Therefore,
we will now focus on anthropology.
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT
ZODIAC SIGNS
The differences between various types of psychological
Zodiac signs represent the very differences between people. Those
differences between people are not a result of any mystical or
superstitious causes, but are the result of the perversion of various
human abilities.
ORIGINATION OF VARIOUS ABILITIES
Our abilities differ from person to person depending on the
gender we belong to, our age, genetic adaptation to climate
conditions we live in, our natural talent for certain work activities
and the influence of external factors.
GENDER DISTINCTIONS
Gender distinctions are purposeful to different
responsibilities of men and women in terms of society, family and
bringing up offspring. Different levels of male and female hormones
at the early stages of human development result in unlocking of the
genes responsible for different abilities. Besides forming the visible
sexual differences, they also influence the emergence of differences
in the way the male and female brains function. Women’s left and
right side of the brain are more mutually connected, so the activity
of their brains “disperses”, whereas men use either their left or their
right side to a greater extent, depending on the nature of a task they
are solving at the given moment. A woman can simultaneously
watch her child, listen to the sounds in the kitchen, talk and knit,
while a man can concentrate solely on one activity at a time.
Different levels of sex hormones in prenatal stage lead to
development of the different types of intelligence. While women
show a more developed F factor (the ability to use words) and M
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factor (mechanical memory ability), men show a more developed R
factor (highly developed ability to comprehend relations, and to find
general principles, correctness and laws from given information)
and N factor (the ability to easily and successfully operate with
numbers, primarily in basic calculations). Female children prefer
playing family games with the dolls they feed, attend and caress,
whereas male children are more interested in games involving
technical characteristics, construction, power, establishment of
influence, battle and conquest. And while a woman is more
endowed with emotional intelligence which reveals her sphere of
responsibility and care- and those are the people she is immediately
close to, a man is characterized with abstract intelligence – issues of
general significance which induce him to be the source of safety for
his wife and family, as well as the source of justice in human
community. Therefore, corresponding to their place under the sun:
for women it’s more important how they feel, while for men it is
more important that what he is doing is worthy, powerful,
significant, and just. In order to remain focused away from the
responsibilities which primarily correspond to female gender, man’s
sentimentality and ability to perform more than one thing at a time
are blocked by male hormone testosterone during his development.
The abilities of male and female genders are mutually
complementary. In a stressful situation, a woman will rather react
defensively with the emotion of fear (so that she can keep her
children), whereas she will leave the offensive to her man, who is
endowed for aggressive defense of his family with his
psychophysical characteristics.
AGE DISTINCTIONS
Age distinctions are a consequence of different types and
levels of responsibility that a human being can bear from the early
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childhood through to the old age. In the earliest childhood the
responsibilities of children are focused on the performance of their
own physiological functions which are necessary for the survival; at
the age of puberty there is a sudden psychophysical development
and diversion of interests from their own selves to other people,
especially of opposite sex, whereas at the mature age the
responsibility for the family and social events is awaken in us. Any
higher level of responsibility is accompanied by the corresponding
hormonal activation of developing abilities which enable us to fulfill
the responsibilities presented to us by our life’s needs.
At the age of puberty there is a highest rise in the level of sex
hormones. We notice maximum exhibition of sex peculiarities in
both genders in terms of their looks and psyche. Males’ body
becomes more muscular (man should be a source of safety), and
females’ with layers of fat on the chest, hips and stomach (woman
should be capable of looking after their children). Men’s voices
become deep, women's high-pitched. Excessive level of hormones
results in increased body temperature and occurrence of a specific
body scent. There is also increased sensuality, manifested through
an increased need for food, which is adequate to the needs of
accelerated psychophysical development, and through the sexual
curiosity, which is purposeful to finding a spouse. At the age of
puberty there is an awakening of human being’s need to become
independent and take over their life responsibilities. Women have a
strong need to have children, while men's need for fatherhood’s care
gets activated only with the scent of a baby. Different kinds of
abilities are now activated and are at our disposal, and it is greatly
up to us and our interests to decide which abilities we are going to
keep and then develop.
Somewhere around the age of thirty there is a new rise in the
level of hormones with the purpose to activate those abilities which
are the most adequate to the highest level of our responsibility
towards our family and society. After they have performed their
developmental function, the level of hormones is reduced.
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RACIAL DISTINCTIONS
The differences between people, which are the result of their
different genetic origins, are mostly caused by their adaptation to
different climate conditions. Unlike the White race, which was
adapted to the moderate climate, members of the Yellow race are
characterized by slow metabolism, proneness to obesity, stocky
body, instinctive inclination towards making supplies and a
multitude of other attributes which express their adaptation to the
cold polar climate. Black race possesses attributes which indicate to
their adaptation to the warm and sunny climate of the tropical and
subtropical belts.
“We have already stated that stocky body with short
extremities is more appropriate for keeping warm: this is exactly
what we can see in genuine Yellow people, Tungusians, Mongols
(and also Tungids) and the people of Siberia (Sibirids). Their hands
and feet are extremely small... they have round heads with least
parts that stick out and therefore less surface to be cold or freezing...
Tungids’ heads have smooth forehead in most of the cases. The nose
is low and narrow, cheekbones are wide and prominent; this makes
the face more round, especially if it is covered in a fat layer of
tissue, and the nose better protected. The eyes of the genuine Yellow
people are more specific than the eyes of all the other people: the
eye sockets are narrow, and the eyeballs in them and the other
protective organs are well coated with fat; in addition, the upper
eyelids cover the inner corner of the eye and makes tears run into
the nose: that is the characteristic “Mongolian eye”. The narrow eye
socket protects the eye form harmful gleam – reflection from icy
and snowy surfaces. The other peculiarities of Tungids are sharp
black hair, very weak beard and small amount of hairs.. Thick hair
and perhaps a curly beard can maintain the exhaled moist air which
can freeze, and that can harm the area around the lips.” (Božo Škerlj,
Man, pg 315-317)
Adaptive differences between human races are somewhat
caused by different levels of male and female hormones. Every
person has both the male and the female hormones, but their mutual
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relation is determined by our gender (a man is determined by his Y
chromosome), along with external influences to some extent
(awareness of specific life needs or an intense stress that can change
the hormonal imbalance), as well as different racial origins to a
certain extent. And, while the Yellow race is characterized by
excessive female hormones, with a developed eurosomatic vector in
the constitution of both sexes, the Black race is characterized by
excessive male hormones, so both sexes have a developed
leptosomatic vector. Actually, since the members of the Yellow race
live in unfavorable climate conditions, raising children requires a
greater extent of attention from both parents, whereas in the more
favorable climate conditions this requirement is less to some degree.
Man's feminine attributes (emotional closeness, etc.) are
activated by an excess of female hormones so that he can get more
interested in the events in his immediate environment (family). That
female intelligence, which is less abstract and more practical, helps
him successfully respond to the existential needs in specific polar
climate conditions. Reduced level of male hormones reduces his
interests in global issues (politics, philosophy and so on) which
could in his case seriously endanger his family’s and his own
existence. Male intelligence with its abstract issues would burden
him with a responsibility he would not be able to fulfill, and hinder
his practical intelligence needed for survival in the unfavorable
climate conditions.
“Keith (Kiss) was the first who attempted to explain racial
distinctions based on different effects of hormonal glands, that is,
based on biochemistry. The difference certainly has its causes but it
cannot be the primal cause of racial distinction. But, the fact is that
the races, if we describe them as adaptive differences between
humans, are complete types after all, which we cannot consider
solely as an abstraction, but only from the encompassing viewpoint
as specific morphological vectors. We can note and prove by biostatistical methods that – at least so far in Europe – some sub-races
or types are morphologically more associated with male gender and
leptosomatic vector. The Alpides, for example, are closer to
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eurosomatic and female vector, whereas Mediterranides and
Atlantides are closer to leptosomatic and male vector. Hence, in
theory, masculinity or femininity and lepto- or eurosomatic types
can be considered as "racial marks" of any sub-race or type. The
above overview determined for European sub-racial types can be
expanded to all the races. The Yellow race – in general – is more
eurosomatic and “feminine” than the Black race. But, for instance,
the Paleomongoloids are more feminine and eurosomatic than the
Sinides.” (Božo Škerlj, General Anthropology, pg 89)
Researches done on the level of the male hormone
testosterone with different human races revealed that it is most
represented in the members of the Black race and least represented
with the Yellow race. Difference in the level of hormones is equated
in later age, but the one which existed during the prenatal
development is essential.
"The races differ in their level of sex hormones. Hormone
levels are highest in Blacks and the lowest in Orientals. This may
tell us why Black women have premenstrual syndrome (PMS) the
most and Orientals the least. The races also differ in testosterone
level which helps to explain men's behavior. In one study of college
students, testosterone levels were 10 to 20% higher in Blacks than in
Whites. For an older sample of U.S. military veterans, Blacks had
levels 3% higher than Whites (see the 1992 issue of Steroids). In a
study of university students, Black. Americans had 10 to 15% higher
levels than White Americans. The Japanese (in Japan) had even
lower levels. Testosterone acts as a "master switch." It affects things
like self-concept, aggression, altruism, crime, and sexuality, not just
in men, but in women too. Testosterone also controls things like
muscle mass and the deepening of the voice in the teenage years. ...
The testosterone translates into more explosive energy. Entine
points out that these physical advantages give Blacks the edge in
sports like boxing, basketball, football, and sprinting." (J. Philippe
Rushton, Race, Evolution and Behavior, pg 39, 14)
Human society requires people of different abilities, beside those
that are a consequence of the different roles of male and female
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gender. Hence the differences between people and human
populations resulting from their various abilities (gifts), so, as some
have the gift for hunting, others are gifted for commerce, crafts, crop
farming, stock farming, etc. Different gifts require different types of
intelligence.
Higher level of testosterone during the prenatal development is indicated
by the longer ring finger than the index finger on the right hand. The
length difference between these two fingers is less with men and higher
with women. The Black race has the least difference, then the White
race, while the Yellow race has the highest difference between the two
fingers.
If male and female hormones are equally present in the prenatal
period, they activate a simultaneous development of both male and
female intelligence, so the person possesses above average
intelligence and is therefore talented for successful performance of
jobs which require both types of intelligence. Research has shown
that these people show a strong interest in science from an early age.
However, a percentage of these people also become sexually deviant
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in puberty. If a person in the prenatal period has a lower level of
both types of hormones, the range of their developed abilities is
different and they can rather successfully perform the most practical
jobs far better than if they had both expressive male and female
intelligence. They are capable of performing their job with
discipline and pedantry, without diversion to the issues which might
make their mind wander and thus lessen their success.
A successful society consisting exclusively of scientists,
warriors, merchants, etc. is unimaginable. For women who have
excessive male hormones, and therefore developed male intelligence
due to their anthropological origin, it is natural to take up
occupations where they can show their greatest abilities. The same
applies to men with more developed female abilities. Every person
has their place under the sun and their abilities can contribute to the
welfare of the entire human society.
DISTINCTIONS DUE TO EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
ABILITIES ADEQUATE TO STRESSFUL
CIRCUMSTANCES AND NEEDS OF LIFE
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own
opportunities, but its own talents." (Eric Hoffer)
Depending on the different needs of life we encounter, that
create adequate mental notions and emotions in us, there is a
corresponding activation of different hormones which set in motion
the abilities adequate to the response to these needs. Our mental
condition, which is a result of certain stressful circumstances, causes
adequate hormonal reactions. For instance, awareness of the danger
instantly increases the level of certain hormones (adrenaline and
cortisol) which enable us to stand up to the source of danger more
effectively (characteristic of male gender) or to flee from it
(characteristic of female gender). An exception circumstance will
activate the responses we are not normally prone to in normal
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circumstances. A male rat is naturally disinterested in his young, but
if he notices that they are without their mother, a strong parental
instinct is activated in him, and he takes over the responsibility of
custody over them instead of their mother. A multitude of examples
in the entire living world reveals the mechanism of locking and
unlocking genes which activate or suspend the abilities adequate to
the concrete needs of life. The mental notion about these needs and
emotions adequate to reality are the key factors of activation of
those psychophysical abilities needed for fulfillment of these needs.
Nevertheless, instead of responding to life’s needs with our abilities,
we have a natural inclination to use our abilities to respond to the
unquenchable requirements of our huge Ego, which makes our
hormonal activity inadequate to the actual needs of life, but rather
the irrational urges of our inner discontent and the self-destructive
mechanisms of our guilty conscience as well.
DESTRUCTIVE REACTION OF MOTIVATION TO THE
STRESSFUL CIRCUMSTANCES
If we were by nature incorrupt, various life circumstances
would develop in us abilities which would contribute to our
successful existence from early childhood onwards. Any kind of
stress would naturally shape us. Unpleasant emotions would arouse
meekness and humility in a child, and the pleasant ones – gratitude.
Even as children we would demonstrate evolutionary progress in
development as opposed to other living beings. However, it seems
that nature did not enable us to purposefully respond to stress in life;
unpleasant emotions make children prone to depression, whereas
pleasant emotions make them pampered, egocentric and selfish.
Human organism is, while still in the prenatal stage of
development, particularly affected by the psychophysical condition
of the mother. Her inadequate nutrition or immature reaction to
stress might leave permanent consequences on the development of
her child. Intense and long-term mental stress at the early age of a
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child may also have a negative influence on the psycho-physiology
of the child’s development.
External influences can be divided on the basis of whether
they have affected a person at the time of their development – when
they were not responsible for their reactions and therefore incapable
of resisting their negative effect, and the time of their maturity –
when they are responsible for their actions and capable of
responding to any external influence in a mature way, regardless of
whether it is positive or negative. During the development stage
negative external influences naturally degrade a person, but, with
the maturity of their will, they may shape them or degrade them
even further, depending upon their own choice.
CONSEQUENCES OF IMPOSING CULTURAL VALUES
One of the external influences is an attempt to affect a child
through disciplining, and later a grown adult through repressive
measures of civil law by means of certain cultural values.
Nevertheless, no matter how deep the cultural values are
rooted, they alone will not be able to change one’s essential motives.
For instance, if three people were disciplined and taught to cherish
the same cultural values under the same external influence, or to be
more precise, if they were taught that they should stand up and let an
older person sit down in a bus, they will probably do so. A
superficial psychologist or sociologist, absorbed with the modern
age ideology – which states that the circumstances are to blame and
are decisive in all affairs - would find in this case a "proof" that
external factors are decisive over genetic inheritance and represent
the way to achieve love and peace between people. Yet, a thorough
analysis would reveal that one person let the older one sit down out
of their own vanity (pride), the other out of their selfish sentiment,
and the third out of guilt. The social factor succeeded in creating a
certain behavior, but the essential motives which depend on their
genetic inheritance remained unchanged. A superficial psychologist
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or sociologist will say that the motives are of no importance and that
the goal was achieved, the goal being – a noble behavior. However,
a thorough analysis would also show that, no matter how sublime
these cultural values are declaratively, they will be of no use in the
actual stressful situations. The person who out of vanity adopted the
cultural value of polite and tolerant behavior towards the people
belonging to a different race, nation, religion or political orientation
can act in complete accordance with the adopted values for a long
period of time. But, as soon as real tests of life arrive, at the time of
stress where their Ego gets wounded, they will naturally get vainly
offended and expose their hatred and therefore openly breach their
culturally adopted declarative values. The person who adopted the
cultural values out of guilt will tend to transgress the values in a
stressful situation under the influence of suspicion and fear from
external and internal enemies. The person who was moved to fulfill
their cultural values by a selfish sentiment will show a cowardly
tendency to renounce the values in case their selfish motives are
endangered.
Instead of reforming our motives and thus proving ourselves
mature enough to stand up to life’s temptations, we tend to seek
protection from the state in order to keep us away from the
temptations which would unveil the false nature of our cultural
values. Such a transfer of responsibility from ourselves to the state,
forms a totalitarian state which, using political and ideological
means, creates false peace and security among its populace. Led by
the same principles, the forces of the New World Order are
attempting to establish peace among people on the global level.
As we can see, external factors act solely from the outside.
Neither imposing of cultural values nor a firm role of the state can
compensate for the sphere of our personal responsibility, our
voluntary and honest repentance for the motives which overpowered
our will.
MATURITY
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Unlike the period of our development, in the period of our
maturity negative external influences cannot be used an excuse for
our inadequate reaction, because we are endowed with abilities to
govern ourselves and the world around us in accordance with our
common sense, conscience and free will. Those who have come of
age are considered responsible for their actions and therefore
answerable for their incorrect behavior before the court, whereas
children and the mentally ill are not held responsible. The
destructive motives which overpowered us during our early
development can change their quality at the time of our maturity and
go in a desired direction, based upon our willingness to do so.
Depending on our choice, one and the same stressful
situation at the time of our maturity may bring out entirely different
motives in ourselves. The stress that causes pleasant sensual
experiences, elevated mental notions and pleasant emotions can
arouse either love and gratitude, or ingratitude, sensuality, pride and
selfishness. The stress which causes negative experiences can bring
out good motives in us (courage, decisiveness, meekness, humility
and due care), or destructive motives (cowardice, hatred and
anxiety), which also depends upon our own choice. The meaning of
positive or negative influence of external circumstances on our spirit
is in our hands.
ENLIGHTENING INFLUENCE ON CHILDREN AND
ADULTS
Yet, although the external factors cannot compensate the
significance of our free will, they can help our positive choice
become easier and freer. Correct parental upbringing will not tend to
free a child of the responsibility for its behavior (which is a
philosophy of a modern age), or to manipulate its natural
weaknesses: pride, guilt and selfishness, just to make it obey parents'
values or the cultural values of the society they live in. Through the
correct upbringing, a child will be led to conquer its weaknesses
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(pride, selfishness, sensuality, etc.) from an early childhood by
fulfilling the responsibilities a parent assigns to it according to its
abilities. According to the famous pedagogist Dr Benjamin Spock,
such kind of upbringing begins very early:
"A baby of 9 months shouldn't be allowed to get the
impression that it's all right to pull his mother's hair or bite her cheek
but that he owes her respect. Between 1 and 2 years he shouldn't be
allowed deliberately to break his own possessions nor to make a
deliberate mess with them. By 2 he can be expected to go through
the motions of helping his mother pick up his play-things. By 3 he
should have such small chores as helping to set the table or empty
the wastebaskets, even though they don't save his mother much
work. By 7 or 8 he should be carrying out genuinely useful jobs
each day. In family conversations children should hear their parents'
concern about problems of the community, the nation, the world.
They should see that their parents are contributing directly to the
solutions - by participating in the work of churches and welfare
committees, for instance, belong to concerned groups, making
sizable contributions of money. In school children should be
studying not only the great accomplishments of their nation but its
deficiencies and mistakes ... I think that more of our children would
grow up happier and more stable if they were acquiring a
conviction, all through childhood, that the most important and the
most fulfilling thing that human beings can do is to serve humanity
in some fashion and live by their ideals." (Benjamin Spock, Baby
and Child Care, pg 12, 18-19)
If a child was not bred properly in the early stages of their
development, subsequent disciplinary measures might incite the
wrong use of will in the child, so they will tend to suppress their
weaknesses only in terms of their demonstration, instead of
genuinely rejecting them. This can be recognized by a child’s
reaction who, after receiving disciplinary advice or reprimand, does
not feel relieved and joyful but depressed and downhearted. A
proper role of female parent – the mother, will develop in a child a
character of cautiousness, compassion and meekness, but without a
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sentimental weakness, whereas a proper role of male parent – the
father, will develop in them a character of courage and
righteousness, but without crudeness and cruelty. Such a child will
let an older person sit down in a bus because they have decided to
love and respect people, not because their pride, guilt or sentiment
forced them to do so. Even a subsequent enlightening awakening of
awareness of a grown adult’s personal responsibility for their
motives and actions will give them greater liberty to substantially
change themselves more easily, and rise up above the negative
influences which have affected them up to that moment, whether
from the outside, or from their own self.
PERVERSION OF THE FUNCTION OF DIFFERENT
HUMAN ABILITIES
When due to immature reactions to everyday temptations our
inner discontent overpowers us, a perversion of our different human
abilities also occurs. These abilities then cease to be an instrument
of human existence and become an instrument of suffocation of our
inner discontent, which results in neglect and endangerment of our
existence. Also, the inner discontent can make us displeased with
our place under the sun which is provided by our real sexual, agedependent, adaptive and specific abilities we were endowed with by
nature, and to seek satisfaction in activation of those abilities and
characteristics which are not our primary ones, and which are only a
passing phase in the development of our personality.
SEX DISTINCTIONS
There are psychophysiological differences between
masculine and feminine sex which perfectly correspond to the union
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between both sexes in their formation of family, living and raising
children, as well corresponding to its general social role. However,
inner discontent of spirit makes members of both sexes abuse the
abilities they have at their disposal. As emotions are more important
to a woman than to a man because of her role in the family, she
becomes more selfish than a man through emotional abuse. A man,
due to his role in society, cares more about the mental notions about
global significance and value of his work, so he tends to become
more proud than a woman does. For the selfishness, a woman cares
more than a man, while a man is more easily insulted due to his
pride. Unlike women, who depend on men in a certain degree, men
seem to be more independent, so women’s dependence can turn into
their authoritarian need to let someone else think and decide for
them, whereas men’s independence can turn into an irrational one,
being an end in itself – arrogance. A woman is by nature more
empathic than a man, which in her case can be perverted into
sentimental weakness and narrow-minded interest solely in people
she is close to. Men are focused on the issues of global social
significance, which can be perverted into evasion of actual life’s
responsibilities and into impractical philosophizing on political and
other issues of generic significance. Women are naturally more
easily scared than men are, because they do not possess the ability
for a physical encounter with the enemy of the family, which can
pervert this adaptive characteristic into cowardice, suspicion and
burden with guilt. Men are by nature more righteous than women,
which can be turned into pride and cruelty. Men also have a natural
responsibility to be a source of security and physical protection for
their wife and family due to their power and influence, which can
turn into desire for power, and inclination towards violence and
aggressiveness. That is why criminal activities are far more frequent
among men than among women.
CLASSIFICATION OF ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS
BASED ON SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS
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One of the classifications of astrological signs was made
upon the basis of the extent of “masculine” or “feminine”
characteristics of a sign. As such a classification best depicts the
origin of the characteristics of different signs, we will hold to these
classifications in our psychological and anthropological analyses.
Zodiac signs with expressive masculine attributes are Libra,
Sagittarius, Aries and Leo. In them, we can notice a certain
perversion of various masculine attributes which would otherwise
have a useful function, while under the influence of spiritual
discontent they become destructive.
A masculine ability of abstract thinking, which is
characterized by the capability to re-evaluate the value and general
significance of their own behavior, perverts into vain occupation
with the mental notions about their imagined worth and grandeur in
all the masculine signs, which in its “purest” form can be found
within the psychological type of Libra. Man’s self-sufficiency and
independence transform into arrogance in the psychological type of
Sagittarius. Within the same type, the gift of hunting transforms into
adventurousness. Man’s authority, dignity and righteousness pervert
into arrogance and short temper in the psychological type of Aries.
In the psychological type of Leo, man’s influence and power which
were meant for management of social relationships (leader’s gift), as
well as for the satisfaction of needs and protection of his own
family, transform into desire for power and predisposition towards
violence.
Some astrologers include Gemini into the masculine signs,
while others consider Gemini neutral. Actually, Gemini represents a
very moderate combination of various masculine and feminine
traits. Emphasized feminine communicativeness and talkativeness,
whose purpose is to teach children how to speak, in this sign (as
well as in Sagittarius) turn into a tendency to babble in order to
alleviate mental tension. Woman’s devotion to her children and
family transforms into egoistic narcissism that is careless of other
people’s needs and in combination with masculine reasonableness
transforms into exploitation.
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Zodiac signs with the expressive feminine attributes are
Cancer, Pisces and Virgo. These signs also illustrate a perversion of
natural feminine characteristics under the influence of spiritual
discontent.
A feminine ability of experiencing reality emotionally, with
has the purpose of recognizing the needs of people with whom a
woman is in a close and direct contact, perverts into a selfish
sentimentality in all feminine signs, especially in the psychological
type of Cancer. Woman’s need for stability provided by a man is
turned into a need for an authority that will think and make
decisions for her, which is also characteristic of Cancer, Pisces and
Virgo. In the psychological type of Cancer, strong maternal feelings
turn into a selfish slavish bondage to children. Adaptive capacity to
cold climate – gatherer’s gift, perverts into an emphasized
possessiveness towards things and beings both in Cancer and in
Virgo. Virgo has a reduced level of hormones, so is emotionally
cold (lower level of female hormones), with no tendency towards
philosophizing over the higher meaning of their own actions (lower
level of male hormones). Virgos abuse the adaptive need for making
supplies, which makes them quite stingy. The psychological type of
Pisces is similar to the Cancer type, but without the attributes of
adaption to the cold climate – gatherer’s instinct to make supplies,
and also without the strong maternal instinct, but they have highly
developed imagination, that is, their right part of the brain (the
centre of artistic tendencies) plays a more significant role, which
makes them similar to Sagittarius. Disposition for empathy in the
psychological type of Pisces is turned into sentimental weakness and
works as the defense mechanism of self-pity, due to which this type
represents itself as miserable and thus denies the responsibility for
their actions. Astrologers classify Scorpio into the feminine signs,
even though it shows specific masculine and feminine sexual
characteristics in both sexes, and their psyche is characterized by
strong sensuality. Excessive male hormone testosterone makes a
person more courageous, which can be perverted into reckless and
fanatic bravery of those anthropological signs which have excessive
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male hormones, while a lower level of male hormones naturally
makes a person more easily scared, which can also be perverted into
cowardice and suspicion.
AGE DIFFERENCES
People show different kind and level of their psychophysical
abilities depending on their stage of life. During the early stage of
childhood, child’s abilities are focused on its basic existential needs
- taking food and relieving itself. Satisfaction or lack of satisfaction
of these needs causes corresponding pleasant or unpleasant
sensations, mental notions on security or insecurity and appropriate
pleasant or unpleasant feelings. In this way, a child becomes aware
of its need and can then attract the parents’ attention in order to
make them satisfy its need.
However, same as adults, a child can come into temptation to
let itself be controlled by inner discontent (called “libido” by some
psychologists), which will in this case “feed” on child’s pleasant or
unpleasant experiences. Discontent perverts the function of child’s
sensational, mental and emotional experiences and makes it respond
to pleasant life experiences with selfishness (by recognizing the
source of satisfaction which suffocates the inner discontent), and to
the unpleasant ones with destructiveness (by recognizing the reason
for “mental release" through destructive manifestation of its inner
discontent).
Without influence of inner discontent a child would have a
feeling of insecurity as long as it experiences an objective stress
which causes a corresponding feeling of insecurity. By satisfying its
need for security, its feeling of insecurity would be replaced with
appropriate feeling of security. Nevertheless, if the feeling of
insecurity was a temptation for a child to become overpowered by
inner discontent, parents could get confused when they notice that
their child is still discontent and depressive, in spite of the fact that
its real needs have been satisfied. Discontent that overpowers a child
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during its early childhood can last for its whole life. In such a case,
its need stays unquenchable in spite of being completely objectively
and emotionally satisfied. Inner discontent sets back child’s spiritual
development due to the child attaching to the source of experiences
that are the response not to the actual need of life, but to the
irrational motives of its “libido”. Such attachment psychologists
refer to as a concept of fixation:
"Spiritual development of a child happens gradually through
separate stages. At every new, more advanced and,
conditionally speaking, more mature period, the obstructions
and strongholds from the previous stage more or less remain
and are strengthened (fixated). The extent of the delay and
fixation of the development on this level depends on the
biological attributes, but also on child’s experiences in the
interaction with its surroundings. Under the pressure of bad
experiences and deep frustrations, child faces an intense fear
and anxiety and it "hesitates" to expose itself to new, painful
and frustrating experiences. It feels more secure in the
already taken position, “the ambush”. As if it does not want
to "go any further", to "grow" and "develop", because these
new experiences in relationships could be unbearably
painful. At that point real attachments and fixations of
instinctive energy in certain developmental stages begin "
(Nevenka Tadić, Psychiatry in Childhood and Adolescence,
pg 69).
Strengthening (fixation) becomes greater as a child is getting
more frustrated in its aspirations and needs, but also in case it is
being overindulged:
"Over satisfactions and frustrations make the strengthening
easier because a child, due to its excessive susceptibility, is not
prepared to endure even relatively mild frustrations." (Ibid, pg 70)
There are different stages of personality development whose
purpose is to prepare us for to turn from ourselves and toward other
people and to ensure our mature functioning in marriage, family and
society. Nevertheless, all those developmental stages can become an
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object of our abuse, certain fixations and their extension to the rest
of our life, and thus disable the onset of our maturity. Based on the
activities “libido” is focused on, psychologists made a classification
of different stages of child development. Oral stage begins on birth
and approximately lasts to the second year of life, anal stage – from
the second to the third year, early genital stage – from the third to
the fifth year, and the stage of stagnancy, when they learn how to
control the intellectual activities – lasts from the fifth to the eighth
year.
“Temporally observed, sexual formation of an individual
consists of several periods: in the first, an individual deals
with their own personality as an object of their own
eroticism (autoerotic period), then gets interested in another
person later on (aloerotic period), at first of the same sex
(homoerotic period), and then of the opposite sex
(heteroerotic period).” (Dr Aleksandar Kostić, Sexual
Knowing – III, pg 80)
At first, the unconquered focus on their own self, and then
the focus on another person but of the same sex, can also become
the source of one’s inner discontent, and therefore the cause of
stagnation of that person’s psychophysical development and
perverted function of their sexuality, so they will be prone to
masturbation and homosexuality. It is therefore very dangerous to
arouse sexual interest with the youth as a source of their satisfaction
before the completed psychophysical maturity, before their mature
readiness to live for another person of the opposite sex.
In puberty we have a natural need for being self-sufficient,
independent from parental authority and responsible for our own
actions, which, in case of immaturity, can turn into perversion of
pride and rebellion towards authority of any kind.
Intense sensuality during puberty represents one’s temptation
to seek satisfaction in sensual pleasure (food and sexuality). If the
inner discontent directed towards indulgence in food (voracity) is
not beaten, it will force us to take excessive quantities of food even
when our sudden physical development is completed and we no
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longer require these quantities of food. In simple words – healthy
sensuality and a healthy need for being independent can be
perverted into hedonism and rebellious heroism. Unless we beat the
temptation of his inner discontent, we will clutch to different
sources of satisfaction as “a drowning man will clutch at a straw”,
which will lead us into actions inappropriate for the actual needs of
our lives, and the lives of other people around us. Puberty is the
period of intensive development of personality, thus any immature
activation and prolonging of abilities that are not responses to life’s
actual needs lead to disorders in human development, which
consequences may last throughout one’s lifetime.
Seeking satisfaction in sensual experiences may lead to
neglect and deterioration of both female and male types of
intelligence, as well as hindrance of the final onset of a maturity.
Unbeaten inner discontent that is directed at us seeking and
conquering a spouse may delay the conclusion of the search for a
spouse even after the start of our marital relationship, and thus make
us promiscuous. Unbeaten sensuality is often a cause of family
break-ups and the break-up of the very civilization which promotes
hedonism.
“The ultimate goal of sexual education in the nubilite*
period – and one of the most important – is to acquire and
support intention and will to start a marriage and family, and
to aid the development of responsibility. At the same time it
implies suppression of anti-marital mood, which is most
often a consequence of the desire to lead a lewd, egotistic
life, free of any commitment and feeling towards the other.
To suppress submission to personal comfort and pleasures, to
suppress the interests of own personality before the duties
towards the other, to come to the belief that the highest
personal happiness is reached in marriage as a good spouse
and parent, which means that only in a fruitful marriage one
can find a true meaning of life, and be aware that we are not
here in this world for ourselves, but for our offspring and the
future of humankind – here are the main directive lines of the
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education in the nubilite period." (Dr Aleksandar Kostić,
Sexual Knowing – III, pg 101-102)
The life period following nobility also bears certain
temptations.
A woman can abuse her maternal emotions and develop a
selfish relationship with her child, which will make her neglect the
child’s real needs and pamper his or her weaknesses in order to
influence the child as a parent. If a man has not conquered his inner
discontent, he will be tempted to turn his abilities of power and
influence (which have the purpose to preserve his family) against his
own family and express violence and aggression to his wife and
children. Hormones set in motion different abilities in corresponding
life periods.
While at the beginning of puberty the male hormone of
testosterone particularly accentuated sexual interests and abilities,
about the age of thirty, the same hormone no longer activates
heightened sexual interests, as much as it activates interests and
abilities for matters of general social significance.
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While the perversion of sexual interest previously turned into
sexual preoccupation, the interest in general social issues now
perverts into over sensitive male pride, tendency towards being
easily insulted, rough and aggressive. Namely, in mature age there is
a maximum expression of the characteristic of male gender in their
need to make everything they do valuable and significant, so if the
notion of their value is perverted into a need which is the end in
itself, it makes us proud and therefore sensitive, aggressive and
prone to taking offense.
The level of hormones is reduced in later years, life
functions and abilities wane, so if we have not beaten our sensual,
proud and selfish desires, we lose the means for their satisfaction.
The very discontent, if not confronted, still remains. Since the
experience of a pleasure becomes weaker than guilt, the feeling of
guilt prevails and the unbeaten desires are suppressed to subconsciousness. This leads to formation of personality prone to
authoritarianism, false moralizing, strictness and hypocritical
condemnation of younger people, who are able to meet their desires.
Discontent of spirit cannot be erased by any change of
hormonal activity. It can be eliminated neither by lack of passion,
whether natural one that comes with the old age, or the artificial one,
through the use of tranquilizers or meditation techniques, but only
through our true repentance for the discontent of our spirit, which
perverts our abilities into sinful and self-righteous behavioral
motives.
DIVISION OF ZODIAC SIGNS BASED ON AGE
Maturity of our personality is often disrupted by our
tendency, out of our own immature satisfaction, to prolong the
locking of those abilities which we no longer need for existence,
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even when the life needs present us with other priorities that require
activation of some other abilities. Astrologers claim that Scorpio is
characterized by intense sensuality, accentuated sexual attributes,
pimples and strong body scent, all of them being characteristics of
puberty. Their temptation is to prolong the puberty elements for the
rest of their lives due to the abuse of sensuality. A variation of
Scorpio also prolongs the rebellious character, which is also a
temptation of puberty. The psychological type of Virgo corresponds
to older persons who have a reduced level of hormones, which may
represent a temptation for false moralizing.
RACIAL DISTINCTIONS BASED ON DIFFERENT
ADAPTIVE ATTRIBUTES
Human race distinctions resulting from their adaptation to
different climate extremes can also lose their proper function under
the influence of man’s inner discontent. As the Yellow race has the
adaptive tendency towards making food supplies for the times of
scarcity and frost, it may become an object of one’s satisfaction,
which in this case is manifested as stinginess, possessiveness and a
need to collect unnecessary things. Perhaps hence the need for some
people to take interest in philately, numismatics, collection of
serviettes, badges, stickers, etc. Since racial differences are
somewhat followed by different levels of male and female
hormones, we can recognize certain abused male and female
attributes in the entire populations. In the races characterized by
excessive male hormones we can observe a tendency towards
violence, vanity, arrogance, pride and power in both sexes, whereas
the races with excessive female hormones tend to show selfishness
and authoritarian dependence on political and ideological
authorities, which can also be observed in both sexes. The races
with a reduced level of hormonal activity are emotionally cold,
strict, formal and hypocritical, which are the traits of some people in
later stages of life, and the races with excessive male and female
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hormones seek intense sensual pleasures, typical of the period of
puberty.
The graph (on the right) shows the different crime rate based on
racial origin. Yellow race has the lowest crime rate, which is in
accordance with the anthropological findings that Yellow race has a
lower level of male hormones and therefore more developed female
attributes than all the other races:
"The Yellow race - in general - is more eurosomatic and
“feminine” than the Black race.” (Božo Škerlj, General
anthropology, pg 89)
"In the U.S., Blacks are
less than 13% of the
population but have 50%
of all arrests for assault
and murder and 67% of
all arrests for robbery.
Fifty percent of all crime
victims also report their
assailants are Black, so
the
arrest
statistics
cannot be due to police
bias. Blacks make up a
large share of those
arrested for white-collar
crimes. About 33% of
persons arrested for
fraud,
forgery,
counterfeiting,
and
receiving
stolen
property, and about 25%
of those arrested for embezzlement are Black. Blacks are
under-represented only in offenses, such as tax fraud and
securities violations, that are committed by individuals in
high status occupations. On the other hand, Orientals are
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under-represented in U.S. crime statistics. This has led some
to argue that the Asian “ghetto” has protected members from
harmful outside influences. For Blacks, however, the ghetto
is said to foster crime, so purely cultural explanations are not
enough. Female homicides tell the same story. In one study
of female arrests, 75% were Black women. Only 13% were
White women. No Asian women were arrested. The cultural
explanation for the crime rate of Black men does not apply to
Black women, who are not expected to engage in criminal
behavior to the same extent. There is no “gangster” image
among Black females. The same pattern is found in other
countries. In London, England, Blacks make up 13% of the
population, but account for 50% of the crime rate. A 1996
government commission in Ontario, Canada, reported that
Blacks were five times more likely go to jail than Whites,
and 10 times more likely than Orientals. In Brazil, there are
1.5 million Orientals, mostly Japanese whose ancestors went
there as laborers in the 19th century, and who are the least
represented in crime." (J. Philippe Rushton, Race, Evolution
and Behavior, pg 31)
When analyzing criminal tendencies one should consider the
enlightenment factor, which, based on the awaken awareness of
one’s personal responsibility, elevates the one beyond their natural
tendencies and negative influence of external factors. The nations of
Northern Europe have shown a high level of criminal activity before
the Age of Enlightenment, and subsequent renunciation of the
enlightenment idea caused their decadence and re-escalation of
crime.
RACIAL DISTINCTIONS BASED ON LANGUAGE
BARRIERS
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Within the Black, Yellow and White races there are also
various sub-races, whose creation is the result of their adaptation to
adequate talents of different occupations that corresponded to their
specific circumstances. Their anthropological entity was preserved
throughout a longer period under the influence of language barriers.
There are several dozens of language groups in the world. Each
language group has a vocabulary of unique common word roots and
unique grammatical principles that make it different from the other
language groups. Such differences between language groups reveal
that their carriers lived in isolation from one another for a longer
period; otherwise, the singularities of language groups would not be
so obvious. The period of such linguistic isolation indicates to the
period of genetic isolation of those populations, which were the
carriers of language groups. Between the geographical spread of
different language groups and the spread of anthropological
populations, we can see the correlation that reveals to us that long
ago each language group used to have a corresponding
anthropological population.
For instance, the spread of Indo-European language group
concurs with the spread of antigen HLA-A1 characteristic of the
Nordic anthropological type, which indicates that the original
carriers of Indo-European language group were the Nordids. In the
same fashion, it can be established that Baltids are the
corresponding carriers of the Uralic language group. Mongols
correspond to the carriers of Altaic language group. The Semites
(Armenoids and Orientalids) are the carriers of Afro-Asian group;
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the Sinids are the carriers of Sinotibetan group in Central and East
Asia, the Nilots are the carriers of Nilosaharic group in Africa, etc.
Based on different extent of mutual structural proximity of
genetic markers which characterize different anthropological
populations, we can categorize the populations according to the
genetic proximity. For instance, the genetic analysis of Nordic
antigen HLA-A1 reveals its quite small structural difference from
the genetic markers characteristic of the Yellow race. The Nordic
HLA-A1 is very close to HLA-A3 (Alpids and Baltids), A11
(Paleomongols), A30 (population with some elements of the Yellow
race, which is dominant with Bantu, Bushmen and Hottentots in
Africa, and also with Basques to some extent). The very same
genetic method reveals that the Dinarians (HLA-A2) by origin are
close to all the Mediterranians (A2, A19), ancient Cro-Magnons
(A28), Black Nilots in Africa (A28) and the Sinids (A19) in NorthEast China and Korea. The Semites (including original Jews and
Arabs) reveal a genetic proximity with the related populations from
India (Dravidian people) and certain populations in the Far East (an
element of Eskimos, Canadian Indians and Japanese). The Semites
were mixed with almost all African populations, especially on the
male side. Genetically close populations are also close in terms of
their temptations of character. While different branches of the
Semites are prone to sensuality, the populations close to the
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Dinarians are prone to vanity (pride, arrogance, haughtiness, desire
for power), and the populations close to the Mongols demonstrate
selfishness and exploitation.
Nowadays, out of ideological reasons, many follow the
dogma that mental differences between races do not exist. However,
an interesting observation of Dr Richard Lynn, the psychologist
whose work "Race Differences In Intelligence: An Evolutionary
Analysis" (2006) reads that "The position of environmentalists that
over the course of some 100,000 years peoples separated by
geographical barriers in different parts of the world evolved into ten
different races with pronounced genetic differences in morphology,
blood groups, and the incidence of genetic diseases, and yet have
identical genotypes for intelligence, is so improbable that those who
advance it must either be totally ignorant of the basic principles of
evolutionary biology or else have a political agenda to deny the
importance of race. Or both.".
Those who criticize the existence of differences between
races often remark that there are no pure races. If we analyze two
dog populations, one of them having fun in an American park, the
other one in European, we will actually notice that the differences
between certain dogs within each population are greater than it
would be if we compared the averages of the dog populations
themselves. But, to say that there is no difference between a Cocker
Spaniel and a Pit Bull due to this fact is entirely frivolous. Hence we
meet individuals in one and the same population who are not
identical, but possess quite different psychophysical characteristics
(which were recognized and christened by astrologers as different
astrological signs). Their height, color of hair, eyes, type and
amount of intelligence, temperament and psychological type differ
in a relatively wide range. Thus, even though the representatives of
different human races are more mixed nowadays than different dog
races, it is no obstacle for recognition of their characteristics (which
clearly reveals the anthropological-astrological experience), and the
reason for this lies in a simple fact that the genes are inherited in
entire blocks (parts, that is, pieces of chromosomes). Mosaic blocks
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which determine the essential elements of human motivation and
physical appearance can hardly be broken into smaller pieces and
lose their phenotypic identification, that is, it would take thousands
of years of different human races living together for that to happen.
As long as we keep identifying individual physical differences in
people, we will also identify the mental differences between them.
Many astrologers are able to presume a Zodiac sign or
ascendant of an individual based on their physical appearance,
which is actually the recognition of the anthropological origin of the
individual. In fact, astrologers noticed that there is a connection
between appearance and psychological type, which they, out of
superstition, do not link to one’s anthropological origin, but to the
astrological factor. For example, astrologers claim that early hair
loss (baldness) is typical of Leo, Aries and Sagittarius, which have
intense male attributes (astrologers also claim that these are fiery
signs, energetic and choleric). Is there any correlation between
man’s masculinity and early hair loss known to science? It was
established that a high level of male sex hormone testosterone
causes early hair loss. Therefore, the cause of significant male
psychological attributes of the aforementioned signs and their early
hair loss is the same, which is the excessiveness of the male
hormone testosterone. In addition, astrologers claim that people born
under the sign of Leo have lion-like appearance, strong bones and
are quite tall; these are actually attributes that have occurred due to
increased secretion of growth hormones (a result of anterior
pituitary): “Their height can reach over 6’5’’ (2 meters). This
happens because the pituitary gland extensively secretes the growth
hormone at the time when the growth of the bones is not yet
completed. Nevertheless, if the pituitary gland continues the
production of the hormone when the bone growth is entirely
completed, we have people with long legs and arms (acromegaly),
or we can see that this growth has led to a particular development of
facial bones. Then we have the people with lion-like appearance”
(Davor Rogić, On sexes, births and newborns, pg 31). Astrologers
therefore have the experience that could greatly contribute to
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anthropology, because they have observed and recorded a distinct
correlation between man's mental and physical attributes and
therefore collected voluminous evidence that the origin of different
psychological types is not in the astrological factor, but inheritance.
Astrologers automatically attempt to correlate all the existing
physical characteristics (for example, eye color, various hereditary
illnesses…) with certain mental characteristics which, according to
them, have a common astrological cause. However, only certain
physical attributes are correlated with some mental attributes –
namely, those which originate from the same gene (mostly related to
hormonal function) or from different genes, but which are inherited
in a common piece of chromosome and so remain together despite
the genetic mix with the people of different origin. This proves that
behind the types there is no astrological factor, but logic and
principles of genetic inheritance.
Why is it then that they rather research positions of the stars
in the sky than their own ancestors and anthropology? If they aim at
human psychology, why do not they deal with it instead of
astrology?
The answer to this question is at the same time the answer to
the question of why humanity has a need for superstition. It is
because the superstitious way of thinking liberates one from their
responsibility. If my destiny depends on the position of celestial
bodies, then there is nothing I can do about it, because I cannot
change their position. I can only get informed about my destiny, not
change it, for what can I do against "greater force"?! Even if I did
think I have free will, believing in the astrological factor would be
my subconscious temptation to avoid confrontation with the
responsibility for my own actions, for I would deal with stars instead
of my spirit. Nonetheless, if I were aware that the source of the
problem lied in me and in my nature, I would naturally be focused
on myself instead of the stars. Confronted with my own sinfulness, I
would bear the responsibility to work on myself and overcome the
roots of the sinful tendencies of my nature.
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However, some astrologers might attempt to prove that the
astrological factor affects our inheritance and makes us sinful, some
of us in one way, some in the other. But, is the moment of our birth,
as astrologers claim our destiny depends on it, what determines our
inheritance? No, because hereditary traits are determined nine
months prior to that, at the moment of conception, not the moment
of birth. Besides, a person cannot inherit more than their parents
have at their disposal and can offer them. Parents offer us four sets
of genes at the moment of conception. We can inherit one out of two
genes from each parent for each trait. Regardless of the Zodiac sign
under which we are born, we cannot have anything more than what
our parents give to us. If none of the parents has a dark hair gene,
but two light colored hair genes, we cannot have dark hair, no matter
what sign or ascendant we are born under.
Let us look at how this principle works with different dog
breeds. We know there are different dog breeds, which differ in their
character and appearance. A specific mark on the fur of a dog race
certainly is not a source of an attribute of the breed, but is inherited
along with its character attributes, so we know by this mark that the
dog has a certain character and, by experience with the dogs with
the same mark, we form what some would call a stereotype about
the dog race. For instance, we form stereotypes that Cocker Spaniels
are good to children, and that a Pit Bull is a very difficult and
aggressive dog. The same applies to humans; their shortness or
tallness, or some other physical attribute, cannot shape their mental
attributes, but all those attributes can only be inherited together. As
we have already pointed out - genes are inherited together in entire
blocks, “pieces" of chromosomes, so there is a frequent correlation
between certain mental and physical attributes in their inheritance
and demonstration. What is the role of the astrological factor in all
this?
There is no astrological factor that will cause one dog breed
give birth to another one. Each dog breed has unique character and
physical attributes, which are dependant on inheritance, not on the
position of celestial bodies at the moment of birth. We can say the
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same about humans; children look more like their parents than their
Zodiac sign. All the Mongolian children have Mongolian attributes,
regardless of the time of birth. All the Black people are darkskinned, without regard to their time of birth. As we can see - there
is no room for any astrological factor. It does not work from the
outside as some external factor, nor from the inside does it affect the
inheritance itself, for the inheritance depends on the ancestors. The
logic behind this deliberation imposes the following conclusion: if
the basic psychological types of astrological signs have no source in
the position of celestial bodies, but in inheritance, then we will
recognize a correlation between the basic anthropological types and
basic psychological types of Zodiac signs. We will therefore attempt
to recognize which astrological sign corresponds to which
anthropological type.
CORRELATION BETWEEN ZODIAC SIGNS AND
ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPES
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SCORPIO – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE
SEMITES
The Zodiac sign of Scorpio used to bear the name of Aquila
(Eagle). Namely, whereas earlier astrologers discerned an eagle’s
beak in Aquila constellation, the modern ones now discern a
scorpion. Eagle’s beak resembles the profile of a typical Arab, and a
scorpion with its sting implies his vengeful character. This leads us
to the hypothesis that the Scorpio type corresponds to the Semites:
Arabs, Jews and various Semitized peoples of the Mediterranean
and the Middle East (Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Egyptians etc.),
and perhaps to the Elamo-Dravidians in the Indian area, which are
genetically related to them.
The Semites can be
recognized by their “eaglelike" nose and big nostrils, fat
fleshy lips, tanned skin, intense
hairness,
pronounced
eyebrows,
curly
hair,
prominent black eyes, rounded
(almond-shaped) nail roots and
a specific guttural (throaty)
speech (remember the Arabic
throaty voices which we find very difficult to pronounce).
The Semites have accentuated and prolonged attributes of
puberty: high liveliness and enthusiasm, intense need for indulgence
in food and sexuality, pimples and strong body scent. Women's
menstrual cycle starts very early.
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Anthropologists refer to the variety of the Semites which
spreads over the area of North Africa and Saudi Arabia as the
Orientalids, whereas the variety in the area of the Middle East is
called the Armenoids. The differences are a consequence of mixing
between the Semites and Mediterranids (the Orientalids), and
between the Dinarians and Alpids (the Armenoids).
“The Armenoids mostly live in the areas under
the Muslim influence. The Orientalids are
connected with the emergence of Jews. The
Armenoids (the Armenian race) are of middle
or low height, dark complexion, medium
narrow face, strong eagle-like nose which is
fleshy and wider at the bottom. The Orientalids
are similar to the Mediterranids. Their skin is
somewhat darker. They have curly hair." (Dr.
Branimir Maleš, On Human Races, pg 35)
“The Orientalids are common in Persia (Iran),
almost all of Arabia and North (Mediterranean)
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Africa (the Beduins and a large part of the Berbers, for
instance). Their nose is narrow, quite often eagle-like; their
hair and eyes are black, their head is elongated, body heights
medium and slender build in general. Yet, in the cities we find
fat people, especially women, which is their ideal of beauty."
(Božo Škerlj, General Anthropology, pg 68)
“The Armenoids. Medium height, strong people, with
predisposition for putting on weight. Brachycephalic skull,
inclined from the forehead to the vertex, so that the long
protuberant nose often comes in line with frontal or cranial
ascending line. The nose is even bigger and longer than that of
a Dinarian, curved, as if it “hangs from the face”. The face is
wider than the Dinarian. Cheekbones are placed lower,
towards the nose base, the chin and the jawbone are
retroflexed and not pronounced, so when viewed their profile
resembles bird physiognomy. The lips are fat and fleshy. The
skin is tawny, hair and eye pigmentation is dark.” (Vladimir
Dvorniković, Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 175)
Astrologers describe the sign of Scorpio using attributes that
correspond to the Semites:
"The nose is the most prominent feature of the Scorpio; it is
large, heavy, and hooked, resembling the bill of the eagle; the
brows are bushy, the eyes sharp and piercing; the jaw is very
heavy ; the glint of the eye, and the set of the jaw indicate the
great determination which is the most prominent characteristic
of the Scorpio. The face is angular, complexion murky and
hair dark, with a peculiar ruddy tinge noticeable when the sun
shines on it. ... The teeth are large and subject to early decay.
The body is short and thickset, with a short, thick neck." (Max
Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars,
pg 103)
Astrologer Linda Goodman says that Scorpio’s voice can be
"velvety soft, husky or sharply cutting". They have "features are
noticeably heavy or sharp, and clearly drawn, and the nose is quite
prominent, sometimes beak-shaped. Brows are heavy and knit
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together over the bridge of the nose. The males will have a heavy
growth of hair on the arms and legs" (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs,
pg 310-312). Astrologer Charles Carter describes Scorpio as
follows: "Sallow, olive, or dark red complexion, and hair often black
and curly. The nose is prominent and aquiline, and usually thick in
the nostrils. Often very muscular." (Charles E.O. Carter, The
Principles of Astrology, pg 156)
Astrologer Aleksandar Imširagić wrote the following about
Scorpio: "The body is short or of a medium height. The hair is rough
as well as the skin, which is often full of pimples, scars and acne.
Scorpio controls the sweat glands and the skin pores are very big.
That is why they have a strong body scent... The lips are rich, red
and clearly defined" (Wheel of Fortune, pg 384). Astrologer Mile
Dupor says the following about Scorpio's appearance: "Medium
height, muscular body, dark hair and skin, either eagle-like fleshy
nose or the elegant nose curved upwards, shiny and piercing wolflike eyes, penetrating voice." (Do not believe it, Check it, pg 61)
"Their legs are shorter than the arms, they are dark, muscular, with a
well-cut face.” (Astromedicine, pg 23) In The Message of the Stars
the astrologers Max Heindel and Augusta Foss Heindel say the
following about Scorpio’s teeth: "The teeth are large and subject to
early decay." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message
of the Stars, pg 105). It is interesting that this description of Scorpio
matches the description of the “hypergenital" type of people, who,
according to the Italian endocrinologist Niccolo Pendo, have only
excessive sex hormones, not excessive hormones of thyroid or
petuitary gland (which is certainly more characteristic of the
psychological types of Sagittarius, Aries and Leo than Scorpio):
“The hypergenital type is noticed only at the end of puberty due to
excessive secretion of sex glands, which is understandable. The
development of this type's sex organs comes early and intensely, but
there is a setback in the growth of the body, lower extremities look
short and stocky in relation to the torso. Male persons have highly
developed muscles, wide back, expressive face, but the hair and
teeth are weak and fall off too soon. Their sexual function is very
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intense. Women have long and heavy periods." (Dr Aleksandar
Kostić, Sexual Knowing III, pg 90-91). Astrologers state the
following about Scorpio: “They are often prone to rheumatism, and
they can also have problems with regenerative organs, bladder,
groin and infections of their private parts. Sex glands are connected
with Scorpio.” (The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet
Astrology and Yourselves, pg 101)
The persons suffering from rheumatism show a high
correlation with the antigen HLA-A24, typical of the Semitic
population, which means that several thousand years ago one Semite
had rheumatoid arthritis, which passed to his numerous descendants
throughout the world up to this very day. 19.54% of ex-Yugoslav
population has the Semitic antigen HLA-A24.
Based on the analysis of Y chromosome, almost every other
citizen of Priština (45.6%), every fifth Belgrader (20.35%) and
every twentieth citizen of Zagreb is of Semitic origin on the father’s
side, that is, haplogroup E, probably from the Semitized
Mediterranids of Protophenician origin. Due to the nature of their
gifts (trade and craftmanship), the Semites were bound to spend
time with other people, so they were mixed with populations of
different genetic origin.
The notion of origin
that is formed in our minds
based solely on the analysis
of the Y chromosome is not
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realistic because it reveals the origin of population only from the
father’s side, which often comes down to the last occupier or
representative of authority who had given the occupied population
his dominant origin by means of destruction of native male
population or the right of the “first night”.
Thus most African Blacks are of Semitic origin from the
father’s side (HG-E), while the analysis of other genetic markers
inherited by both sexes reveals a rather colorful origin of African
people.
The question would now be:
Is there a match between the anthropological descriptions of
Semites’ mental traits and the astrological description of Scorpio?
Astrologers claim that Scorpio goes to the extremes:
"The sign is extremely thorough-going, and few flabby
characters are born under it. There is usually courage, and
also energy and capacity for toil in the pursuit of any aim
which claims the native's devotion. As a result many heroes
have been born under the sign, as well as many notable
villains. They do nothing by halves, and, having once
selected their course in life, pursue it relentlessly. In
primitives there may be reckless self-indulgence and in
evolved ones intense devotion." (Charles E.O. Carter, The
Principles of Astrology, pg 75-76)
"He can be a saint or a sinner. He can experiment with the
darkest mysteries this side of Hades, or he can scathingly
revile sin and decadence... Pluto people can have either a
Sunday School teacher horror of sin, an attitude which
produces intensely dedicated evangelistic religious leaders ...
or they can be driven by curiosity to penetrate every dark
corner of the human mystery. Sometimes, both attitudes are
combined, resulting in the hypocrisy or self-delusion..."
(Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 316, 322)
The Semites, which are also referred to as the Armenoid race
by anthropologists, are described as follows:
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“The Armenoids – these people are torn and there is a streak
of unsettled body and soul in them. People from Near East
feel their body and soul as two opposing sides of his being...
Their being therefore inclines to one extreme at one point,
and goes to the other extreme at another: extreme asceticism
or inveterate, cynical materialism.” (Vladimir Dvorniković,
Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 187-188)
If we had the chance to meet the people from the
Mediterranean and the Middle East area, where the Semites are most
common, we could notice that their sensual sensations are of special
importance to them: they speak loudly, make physical contact
during conversation, indulge in spicy food, which can also be very
sweet (tulumba and baklava are their specialties). Sexuality is very
important to them (preferably harems), as well as etheric oils and
massage. The music they listen to has the Oriental scale (“Turkish”
music). They are extremely close to all the people. Instead of
drinking alcohol, which represents an emotional pleasure and is
typical of the peoples of Nordic, Finno-Ugric and Mongolian origin,
the Semites are well-known for indulging in tobacco which gives
them sensual pleasure. The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia
named the herbs typical of Scorpio: "Narcissus, ivy, tobacco, onion,
pepper..." (pg. 104). Intense tendency towards sensual pleasures
categorizes the Semites as Scorpios, and Linda Goodman says the
following about them: "The true nature of the sign is sensual.
Normally, Scorpio will surround himself with luxury. He'll lean
toward excesses in food, drugs, drink, and yes-in love." (pg. 321)
Astrologer Mile Dupor describes Scorpio as a number one
sign in relation to other signs in terms of the attributes of eroticism,
passion and attractiveness. In The Secret of Sexual Astrology by
Johanna Weinbaum, The Secret of Sexual Astrology, we read: "Man
Scorpio is prone to perversity." (pg 42)
Charles E.O. Carter says that Scorpio’s way of speaking is
"deep and resonant" (Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg
18), which actually indicates the high level of male hormones.
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The Semites are endowed with gifts for enterprise,
organizing, craftsmanship and trade (power of marketing and
persuasion). Their outstanding and versatile gifts are most obvious
with the Jews, who, even though thin in terms of percentage in the
overall population of humankind, have many Nobel Prize winners,
scientists, doctors, writers, politicians, etc. There is an interesting
observation made by astrologer Charles Carter: "I have nearly
always found enthusiastic Freemasons to be Scorpionic to a more or
less degree." (Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological
Astrology, pg 50)
As they often occupy high positions in society by achieving
great results in their business activities, they cause envy and antiSemitism, especially with individuals and nations who have the
inferiority complex. The other branches of the Semites natural
talents are more desecrated with sensuality and are therefore
rendered dysfunctional. The temptation of sensual pleasure in
commerce is recognized in almost all branches of the Semites by
their ability to bargain, and the temptation in artisanship by their
willingness to work only if they get to feel the pleasure of an
immediate and instantaneous profit. This trait is perhaps most easily
recognized in Gypsies, who to a great extent originated from the
Elamo-Dravidians, who are considered to be closely related
(common HLA-A24) with the Semites of the Arabo-Jewish origin in
terms of genetics (although Gypsies are quite mixed with the
anthropological types which correspond to the psychological type of
Pisces). Namely, according to the biblical genealogy of the nations,
Jews and Arabs origin from Noah’s son Shem and were therefore
named Semites. However, while Jews and Arabs came from Shem’s
son Arphaxad, the other “Proto-Semitic” peoples came from the rest
of Shem’s son (five of them). According to the Holy Bible, one of
Shem’s sons, whose name was Elam, is the father of the ancient
Elamites. The fall of the ancient Elamic empire, whose capital Susa
was located in the area of today’s Iran, was foretold in the Holy
Bible in the following manner:
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“Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will break the bow of
Elam, and their chief strength. And I will bring upon Elam
the four winds from the four quarters of heaven: and I will
scatter them into all these winds: and there shall be no
nation, to which the fugitives of Elam shall not come.”
(Jeremiah 49:35-36)
The analysis of the now dead Elamic language shows its
closeness with the language of modern Dravidians in India, so both
languages are considered part of Elamo-Dravidian language group.
The archeological findings revealed to us the names of the ancient
Elamic emperors: Peli, Tata, Ukku-Takhesh, Khishur, ShushunTarana, Napil-Khush, Kikku-Sive-Temti, Lukh-Ishshan, Khelu,
Khita, Kutik-Inshushinnak, Attakhushu, Sirukdukh, ShimutWartash, Siwe-Palar-Khuppak, Kuduzulush, Kutir-Nahhunte, LilaIr-Tash, Temti-Agun, Kutir-Shilkhakha, Khuman-Numena, UntashNaprisha, Shutruk-Nahhunte, etc. Although Gypsies today speak
languages which belong to the Indo-European language group, their
pronunciation, accentuation and intonation corresponds to their
mostly Semitic genetic origin, which transform Indo-European
words towards the direction of their former Elamo-Dravidian
language.
Gypsies of today reveal
anthropological
and
characterological proximity to
the other branches of the
Semites throughout the world,
not only in terms of tendencies
towards artisanship, trade and
bargaining, but also in terms of
extensive need for sensual
pleasure. Many cannot wait
until the end of the month to
receive their salaries, so they
perform only those jobs where
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they can experience the pleasure of an immediate profit (cleaning
the windshields, beggary, etc.). They disregard all those life
responsibilities where they do not get the feeling that they will “cash
in” something (long-term education, seeing the doctor, taking care
of personal hygiene, etc.). They are also reckless in spending the
earned money; no matter how large the sum is, on sensual pleasures,
even though they will spend a long time after that suffering in
poverty.
Astrologers describe Scorpio’s materialism in the following
words:
"In the budget department, Scorpio women are completely
unpredictable. She can scrimp and save and pinch a penny until it
bends double, then have a sudden spell of being magnificently
extravagant. One thing is sure. She'll enjoy money, whether she
saves it in an old shoe or spends it on luxury." (Sun Signs, pg 333)
“They adore second hand items, they love them more the
new ones, and use them as they are, or remodel them as they
please.” (The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet
Astrology and Yourselves, pg 104)
Astrologers also dealt with the attitude of a Scorpio father
towards his children: "If they borrow money from him, he's liable to
charge them interest on it, but it's for their own good." (Sun Signs,
pg 324)
Astrologers also say that Scorpios are extremely jealous:
"You can drive Scorpio mad with jealousy - but you do so at
your own risk. Scorpio never forgets kindness, never
forgives offences, and then revenge becomes their only aim."
(Johanna Weinbaum, The Secret of Sexual Astrology, pg 42)
Anthropologists recognize jealousy as a characteristic of the Semitic
population:
“Oriental and Mediterranean male jealousy is too well
known
phenomenon.”
(Vladimir
Dvorniković,
Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 337)
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In 1792, German researcher and cartographer Carsten Niebuhr
described the character of Arabs in his work "Travel through Arabia
and other Countries in the East", chapter "Of the Vengeance of the
Arabs" as follows:
"A lively, animated people, of quick and violent passions,
are naturally led to carry the desire of vengeance for injuries
to its highest excess." (pg 197)
Speaking about a blood feud among the Arabs, he noticed:
"The Arabs rather revenge
themselves, as law allows, upon
the family of the murderer, and
feels an opportunity of slaying
its head, or most considerable
person, whom they regard as
being properly the person guilty
of the crime, as it must have
been committed through his negligence in watching over the
conduct of those under his inspection. ... Men, indeed, act
every where in direct contradiction to the principles of
religion; and this species of revenge is not merely impious,
but even absurd and inhuman." (Carsten Niebuhr, pg 201202)
"Notwithstanding this aptitude to indolence, however, the
Arabs are possessed of quick and violent passions, which
often induce them to carry the desire of vengeance tor
injuries to its highest excess. Some tribes in particular are so
extremely irritable and jealous of their honour, that if one"
chief says to another with a serious air, "thy bonnet is dirty,"
or, "the wrong side of thy turban is out," nothing but blood
can wash away the reproach, and not only the offender, but
all the males of his family must expect to be sacrificed on
such an account." (The wonders of nature and art By Thomas
Smith, William Marshall Craig, John Pye, pg 150-151)
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As we can observe, Scorpio’s vengeful character is the most
expressive with the Semites of Arabic origin. Unlike Jews, who
according to the Bible descended from Abraham’s second son Isaac,
Arabs descended from Ishmael, the first son of Abraham, whose
character was foretold to be the temptation of the entire Arabic
world:
"And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every
man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in
the presence of all his brethren." (Genesis 16:12)
Let us note how Scorpio’s vengeful character incredibly suits
the Arabic character, especially their religious fanatics, who are
prepared to sacrifice their lives for fulfillment of their religious
goals:
"The deadly nocturnal scorpion will first sting, then plan
destruction, then sting again. He's not content with merely
evening the score. He must totally destroy the enemy, or at
least top him. The typical scorpion stinger will lie awake
nights figuring how to get even." (Linda Goodman, Sun
Signs, pg. 315)
"In the hour of danger they never flinch, but perform deeds
of heroism with a disregard for self that amounts to
foolhardiness." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The
Message of the Stars, pg 63)
“With the intent to make the world a better place Scorpios
can sometimes be real fanatics obsessed with a wrong way to
do it. They then show defiance and destructiveness which
make the world around them devastated." (The Society of the
Astrologers of Yugoslavia, pg 101)
“The lower type Scorpions listen to their instincts, do harm
to themselves, are jealous, vengeful, egotistic, act behind
others' backs, like pleasures. It is impossible to make them
give up their ideas, they take it on somebody else to the point
of sadism, socialize with inferior people in order to stand out
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... commit suicide when left without a choice." (Maja
Lončarić, Astrology – The Stars Talk, pg 43)
The well-known Arabic suspicion, fear, which is a frequent
combination in the area of Saudi Arabia) of the enemy and
conspiracy can all be recognized in the astrological description of
Scorpio:
"Every Scorpio's life motto is the following: nothing is as it
seems." (Hana Hart, A man in the palm, pg 90)
“Scorpio is also often suspicious, probably by reason of
projecting its own characteristic subtlety on to those with
whom it is dealing.” (Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 174)
In Mediterranean and Middle East countries, wherever the
Semites are common, we can recognize their tendency towards
religious and ideological intolerance. Astrologers claim:
“Scorpio knows no limits, they exaggerate in
everything...they are passionate and intolerant.” (Maja Lončarić, The
Stars Talk, pg 43)
Such a convincing overlap of the description of the
astrological sign of Scorpio with the anthropological type of the
Semites can incite us to raise the question – did the Semites acquire
their attributes under the influence of the sign of Scorpio, or the
traits of Scorpio are such because astrologers attributed them with
psychophysical characteristics of the Semites they met among
themselves, who resembled Aquila by physical appearance or
Scorpio in the constellation under the same name by their
character?!
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Namely, did the Semites get the eagle-like noses under the
influence of the constellation Aquila or do they have it due to their
genetic origin?
In the areas of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle
East and India, where different branches of the Semites are quite
common, different constellations keep shifting because the Earth
constantly spins around its centerline and the Sun. The Semites are
born throughout a year, not only under the sign of Scorpio, and yet
they have the typical Semitic appearance and character throughout
every year and their whole history. Therefore, it is clear that the
attributes of the Zodiac signs have their source in anthropology, and
the psychological reasons make it easier for people to see the source
of their temptations in the position of celestial bodies than the
sinfulness of their own nature. If we are not prepared to face the fact
that we are sinful by nature, then we have nothing left but to shift
the source of our sinfulness to some factor affecting us from the
outside. Astrology helps us find the “source” in the innocent
celestial bodies.
LIBRA – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF WEST
MEDITERRANIDS
Astrologers describe Libra’s appearance in the following
words:
“Appearance: Well built, usually handsome, proportionate
body, normally pretty face with good complexion,
expressive eyes, dark or hazel.“ (The Society of the
Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves,
pg 89)
“Slender, elegant, oval moist face, transparent tan, well
sculptured eyelids, eyes honestly open, both sides are
proportionate, natural, unaffected, charming, beautiful.“
(Mile Dupor, Do not believe it, Check it, pg 82)
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"Elegance may be said to express in one word the physical
peculiarities of the Libran. The body is slender and graceful
in youth..." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The
Message of the Stars, pg 61)
Anthropologists use the same words to describe the
appearance of the Mediterranean anthropological type. The German
anthropologist Egon von Eickstedt claims that:
"The Mediterraneans represent, in their constitution, the
most delicate and elegant, and also the most strongly
pigmented of the European races. The features are more
regular and harmonious than they are in the Nordics; the
body, of low stature, is slender and well-proportioned, not
stocky as in the Alpine race; the big and brilliant black eyes
give to the face a vivacious expression." (Rassenkunde und
Rassengeschichte der Menschheit)
Our famous anthropologist Božo Škerlj on the
Mediterranids:
“The Mediterranean sub-race or Mediterranids are quite
spread over Southern Europe and the Mediterranean islands.
Certainly, they are closely related to the Orientalids, but are
more petite; they are reputed to be one of the most beautiful
“types” of humankind. They are not tall (approximately
5’5’’), but their proportions are really "regular”, torso is not
too long (which is common when the height is lower), legs
and arms are slender. This type includes many models of
classical Greek sculptors. The color of their skin is the
darkest one in Europe, the eyes are brown and the hair very
dark (black), often curly or at least wavy. The nose is narrow
and flat or mildly convex, the head is elongated. They are
prevalent particularly in Spain and somewhat in southern
France, southern half of Italy and Greece. They surround the
Mediterranean sea, whereas in North Africa we can find their
Oriental type. In our area, we can also find them in Middle
and southern Dalmatia and the Dalmatian islands." (Božo
Škerlj, General Anthropology, pg 68-69)
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There is a striking
congruence
between
the
astrological descriptions of Libra
and
the
anthropological
descriptions of the appearance of
people who belong to the
Mediterranean type. We would
now like to know whether there is
a similarity between their
psychological attributes.
Astrologers
recognized
noticeable sociability in Libra:
"Towards the surrounding
– sociable. They appreciate a
friend. They can put themselves
in the position of the weak ones.
Virtues: tact, accessibility for everyone... They like people.
Cooperate easily.” (Mile Dupor, Do not believe it, Check it, pg 8384)
Anthropologists recognized the same attributes as the traits
of the Mediterranids:
"Mediterranids are hospitable and sociable." (Dr Branimir
Maleš, On Human Races, Belgrade, 1936)
Astrologers also noticed Libra’s need to be liked by others:
"Approbativeness is a distinctly Venus-Libra characteristic.
Libra "likes to be liked," and will often do much and go to
great lengths in order to obtain and go to great lengths in
order to obtain and keep the approval of others." (Charles,
E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg
35)
"They like harmony, style, flowers, parades, gentlemanly
behavior, children, art, poetry. Disarm with nice words.
Keep their private things from going public, and are in pain
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if they offend somebody. They fear criticism." (Mile Dupor,
Do not believe it, Check it, pg 83-84)
"There is a nice anecdote in the form of a comment which
greatly illustrates their psychological profile and character,
then their expression of style, temperament and behavior. A
man describes his love partner to a friend: "You know, I get
the feeling that she (Libra) has fun or in her own way flirts
with the whole world. She is trying to be liked by everything
that lives on this earth, everything that walks or has two legs,
and most of the time she is successful in what she does, but
how she does it - that's a mystery to me." (astrologer Ana
Rakić, http://www.astro-look.com/profil/vaga.shtml)
The anthropologists Vladimir Dvorniković and Hans
Günther describe the same need as characteristic of the
Mediterranean anthropological type:
"A Mediterranean wants to use his appearance, posture and
gesticulation primarily to personally express themselves,
show themselves and be liked." (Vladimir Dvorniković,
Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 187)
"Takes great joy in the spoken word and in pleasing and
lively movements; and is inclined to find suppleness and
craft particularly worthy of interest and praise. ... The
Mediterranean man is eloquent, often a skilled orator, not
seldom he is (at least for the Nordic observer) talkative and
somewhat superficial." (Hans Günther, The Racial Elements
of European History, pg 56)
The need to be liked forms an exquisite ability to estimate
things and phenomena by their external value. Speaking of this
attribute with the Mediterranids, anthropologist Branimir Maleš
points out:
"They can judge things and phenomena by their true value."
(Dr Branimir Maleš, On Human Races, pg 37)
The same Mediterranean trait was recognized by astrologers
as Libra's attribute:
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“They possess a great ability of perceiving, clearly and
objectively seeing people and circumstances around them.
They are capable of seeing things from various perspectives
and picking the optimal solution to the problem." (The
Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology
and Yourselves, pg 87-88)
Superficiality in relation with other people, which ends only
in flattering words, without willingness to practically sacrifice for
them, was described by astrologers as Libra's trait:
"They know how to hear out the people, they even give a
smart and reasonable advice, but have no desire or patience
to personally engage or immerse themselves in resolving the
problem." (The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia,
Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 91)
The anthropologist Hans Günther claims that the
Mediterranids are characterized by laziness:
"The Mediterranean man is not very hard-working, often he
is lazy; he likes to enjoy life the more." (Hans F.K. Günther,
The Racial Elements of European History, pg 56)
Laziness is definitely a characteristic of a major part of exYugoslav population, where the Dinarians and Mediterranids are the
most common anthropological types. The anthropologist Vladimir
Dvorniković wrote the following about the laziness of a Yugoslav
man:
"Patriarchal and epic heroic man will employ all his
strengths in the moment of emergency and will commit acts
which will impress the world. When cornered by calamity, a
Yugoslav man will employ miraculous energy and effort.
'When the lazy becomes a squire, he will set the world on
fire". But after that there is a suspicious apathetic rest; not
even the simplest everyday activities can set him in motion.
The fighter breathes only within great amplitude: extreme
effort or extreme leisure, he can soar high or dwell in deep
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lethargy." (Vladimir Dvorniković, Characterology of
Yugoslavs, pg 667)
The astrologer Linda Goodman describes Libra's laziness in
the same fashion:
"The Sun sign itself is known as Lazy Libra, and that's
another inconsistency. For days, weeks or months on end,
Librans can be too busy to play. They'll burn gallons of
midnight oil, then rise and shine in time to hear the rooster
crow. It wears you out just to watch them. Suddenly, they'll
plop down into a chair, say, "I'm bushed," and give the best
imitation of laziness you've ever seen (especially after all
that frenzied activity). Once they've plopped, you won't
catch them moving a muscle if they can help it. It will be an
effort for them to pick up a spoon or raise a glass (though
they will manage). If there's anyone around who's willing,
they'll expect to be waited on, hand and foot. When the
scales have dipped down toward lethargy, you couldn't move
Libra with a steam shovel. Hell talk, read, yawn, snooze,
watch TV or stare out the window, and seem barely able to
make it into the bedroom." (Sun Signs, pg 261-262)
This explanation of laziness can be put in other words,
without sugarcoating. As they are by nature irresponsible and lazy,
only necessity can set a Mediterranean to work. Work and diligence
are not natural to them, but represent a type of stress\, which they
often complain about as if work is something unnatural. In order to
have a motive to work, Mediterraneans tend to use their vanity,
eliciting a competitive spirit in themselves, which may lead them to
achieve impressive business undertakings. Moved by fanatical
motives, they can for a moment demonstrate incredible zeal, but
when the immediate motive for work is lost, they return to their
natural state. The proof that work and diligence are not a product of
their natural motives lies in the fact that they are only diligent and
hard-working while at work, but no so when they come home,
unlike some other populations which demonstrate the same sort of
diligence in all situations. Laziness is the characteristic of all those
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types which are anthropologically (genetically and psychologically)
close to the Mediterranids, with all of them possessing a huge Ego,
these others being all the remaining branches of the Mediterranids,
the Dinaric and Cro-Magnon anthropological types (so-called
“male“ signs).
People with huge Ego ask their Ego for permission whenever
they ought to start an activity which is a response to the reasonable
need of life, asking it whether or not they have motives to fulfill the
responsibility. For instance, if they should wash the dishes after a
meal, the persons belonging to this type will first ask themselves
whether they feel like washing up. If their Ego does not feel like it,
they will actually have difficulty doing so.
It is obvious that the formation of
the Libra type occurred because of
recognizing psychophysical attributes of
the Mediterranean population and
attempting to switch the source of Libra's
character from human nature to the
planetary positions at the moment of a
person's birth.
As there is more than one
Mediterranean type, we will refer to this
one as the West Mediterranean
anthropological type. West Mediterranids
are most common in Sardinia, among the Basques, Italians, and
south French, in Peloponnese, Greece, the West Balkans and among
south Romanians. In our area, they are most common in Montenegro
seaside, Kosovo, eastern Serbia and Banat (in the area of ZetaLovcen and Kosovo-Resava dialects). They are characterized by the
genetic marker of the antigen HLA-B18.
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The analysis of the structural proximity of the antigen HLAB18 with other antigens reveals that the West Mediterranean
anthropological type is a close genetic brother of the Dinarians
(Aries) and East Mediterranids (Pisces), but the analysis of its Y
chromosome (HG-E) shows that, through the male line, they have
origins in one branch of the Semites (Scorpio) close to the Jews and
Arabs.
What can we recognize in West Mediterranids (Libra),
which is close to the Semites (Scorpio)?
The Semites, capable merchants as they are, have a gift to
persuade their customer to buy their merchandize, but, while the gift
serves Semites’ exploitations, it serves the vanity of West
Mediterranids. West Mediterranids brag, not for a successful sale,
but in order to get others' approval. The history of the occurrence of
Libra confirms the connection between West Mediterranids and the
Semites:
“Three thousand years ago astrologers separated Libra as an
individual constellation because up to then it was an
extension of Scorpio, Scorpio's claws, to be precise." (The
Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology
and Yourselves, pg 87)
Linda Goodman also talks about Libra’s power of
manipulation:
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"Still, I must warn you that once you're caught and enmeshed
in the Libran charm, it won't be easy to break away." (Linda
Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 268)
The very definition of Libra and its meaning reveals
compromise, which is a consequence of their vain fear of
confronting other people. Astrologers state the following about the
psychological type of Libra:
"You believe in compromise, which makes you a good
diplomat. You love beauty and refinement. ... Charming and
companionable." (Marion D March and Joan McEvers, The Only
Way to Learn Astrology, Volume I, pg 85) "Libra hates to hurt
anyone's feelings; He hates to say: No!" (Linda Goodman, Sun
Signs, pg 271)
In their promenades we can notice their pose through "an
established look“ on their faces, which often resemble the ones of
puppets, expressing their vain weakness. The whole area of their
geographical prevalence is characterized by a tribal way of thinking
which nowadays represents a foundation for the formation of mob
clans. West Mediterranids, that is, Libras, carefully weigh up the
pressure of power authorities or majority expectations on one hand,
and all the things they would lose if they justly stood up to them on
the other, and then make a “diplomatic compromise“. They sacrifice
the principles of integrity and justice for their own narrow-minded
vain interests, and when they read the horoscope, they are vain to
recognize themselves as good diplomats:
"Not even Solomon in all his wisdom could top a typical
Libran's final, balanced decision." (Linda Goodman, Ibid, pg 273)
"Regardless of what they really think, they always say what
people want to hear, except when they get involved in
disputes where they stick to their own attitude which is not
necessarily an objective one." (The Society of the
Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves,
pg 91)
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"They find it hard to say "No", or to take a firm attitude in
the face of hostility, and tend to avoid unpleasantness at all
costs. Hence they compromise too much, "sit on the fence",
and waver from one view to another without giving a
downright reply which would commit them to one course."
(Charles E.O. Carter, Principles of Astrology, pg 74-75)
As West Mediterranids are most common in Italy (especially
the southern area), it is understandable that the stereotypes various
nations have about Italians, namely, them being arrogant,
superficial, immature, prone to flirting, mafia, etc. actually reveal
the character of West Mediterranids, and thus the psychological type
of Libra. Naturally, in order to get a clear, objective picture about
them in our minds, we need to eliminate the Semite (Scorpio)
elements from these stereotypes, because they are quite mixed with
West Mediterranids, especially in the south of Italy and in Sicily.
In all the areas where West Mediterranids are dominant in
population, their speech is colored with a pronounced melodic
accentuation, with the melody and speech rhythm typical of Italians.
We can find it in the suburban settlements southeast from Belgrade
(the so-called "village" speech) and in the whole area of KosovoResava and Zeta-Lovcen dialects: in the area from Vrsac in Banat,
through eastern and southern Serbia, Kosovo, eastern Montenegro,
to the Montenegro seaside. It is normal that one uses melody in their
sentences to show emotions adequate to what they are talking about.
However, peoples with a melodic word accentuation reveal one and
the same melody which they repeat regardless of what they are
talking about. This means that the emotion behind their speech is not
a consequence of an objective notion about reality in their minds,
because the melody would change adequately to the current
emotions matching the reality, but the typical melody is a
consequence of their huge Ego.
To be more precise, West Mediterranids (typical Italian)
have the accentuation and intonation that reveal their desire to be
liked by others and also their fear of losing the approval. In brief the message they are conveying, saturated with the desire to charm
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others and maintain their approval at all costs, is: “Don’t touch me,
I’m ‘the man’!“ This motive is so strong that West Mediterranids
are characterized not only by a specific melody of speech, but the
melody we recognize in their speech is a feature of their ethnic
music, the music that includes various genres. The revolutionary
song "Bandiera Rosa“ contains a similar motif as the pop song
"Marina, Marina". When there is a multitude of West Mediterranids
in one place, they will naturally strive to speak with their original
accentuation., However, even when they are as individuals
surrounded by a population of different origin and character, they
will to some extent reveal their character through speech,
particularly in two instances: when the person possesses a huge Ego,
so the surrounding factor has little influence on them, or when under
stress. It is interesting how astrologers noticed that the Zodiac sign
of Libra speaks with the accentuation which would, according to our
conclusion, correspond to West Mediterranids. Charles Carter writes
about Libra’s speech that it is: "Soft, but often peevish, drawling and
affected." (Charles, E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological
Astrology, pg 168)
Melodic accentuation is also characteristic of the remaining
anthropological types which are genetically close to West
Mediterranids, with the exception that each type has a different
melody which reveals its psychological type: the Dinarians (Aries)
speak in a proud, peremptory and harsh manner, Cro-Magnons
(Sagittarius) speak with a disharmonic intonation, East
Mediterranids (Pisces) speak with elements of depression (similar to
Latin Americans, Indians and Palestinians), and Atlantic
Mediterranids (Leo) speak with a specific melody that raises its tone
(similar to the people of Niksic and Split and North-East Chinese).
Even the Alpids (Virgo), who are anthropologically totally different
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from the aforementioned types, speak with the (stretched) elements
possessed by the East Mediterranids (Pisces). Unlike the Dinarians,
Cro-Magnons and all branches of the Mediterranids, which are
characterized by melodic word accentuation, the remaining
populations (the Semites, Nordids, Finno-Ugric and Mongols) in
their pure form are characterized by dynamic accentuation (a word
is pronounced with strokes and no melody). Dynamic accentuation
can be identified in the speech of the urban population of the West
Balkans, which, influenced by Islamic entity, maintained a large
number of Slavs, the original members of the Nordic
anthropological type. For example, instead of melodic “slanina“ we
will hear the dynamic (stroked) pronunciation of the word as
“slan’na“.
The map (on
the right) represents the
areas of influence of
the
anthropological
types on the melody
and rhythm of speech
in these dialects where
they are particularly
common.
Alpid’s
stretched
way
of
speaking ranges all the
way from Vojvodina to
Bavaria and Savoy in
France.
The
peremptory speech of
the
Dinarians
is
common in Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, but also
Georgia in the Caucasus
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SAGITTARIUS - THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF
CRO-MAGNONS
People who belong to different anthropological types are
endowed with different gifts. While some (the Nordids and a
majority of the Yellow race) are endowed with the gift to farm the
land (crop farming), others (the Dinarians) are gifted in breeding
animals (stock farming), the third group (the Semites) have the gift
for trade and craftsmanship, while the fourth one, which we
recognize among the traits of the Zodiac sign of Sagittarius, the sign
which represents the hunter, is gifted for hunting.
The ability to hunt successfully requires high spatial and
kinesthetic intelligence, which are based on the activities of the right
side of the brain, whereas abstract and logical intelligence develop
based on the activities of the left side of the brain.
Spatial intelligence is manifested through the ability of
artistic expression through sculpture and painting, while kinesthetic
intelligence manifests itself through interest in sports and dancing. A
natural hyperactivity of the right side of the brain implies greater
power of imagination (tendency towards religious notions), but it
can also lead to neglecting the left side of the brain, and therefore
lesser results on the intelligence tests which explore abilities related
to speech, reading, writing and mathematical operations. A
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successful hunter should also be physically endowed for hunting,
possess strong sportsman attributes, the most important of them
being the ability to run fast. Alertness and quick reactions can make
them reckless and rash if they demonstrate them in other life
situations inadequate to hunting.
In the astrological books we read the following as
Sagittarius’ traits:
"Preferences: sports, horses, hunting" (Mile Dupor, Do not
believe it, Check it, pg 90-91). The gift for hunting probably is the
root of their "A need to search constantly for distant contacts"
(Michael R. Meyer, A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer, pg
60), as well as their "inexhaustible" tendency towards "seeking new
experiences and adventures" (The Society of the Astrologers of
Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 113).
"He'll sing himself hoarse or dance his shoes off for the sheer
exhilaration of performing... The Sagittarian love of sports and the
outdoors may bring accidents through reckless over-activity." (Linda
Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 363)
"Pedestrianism is a distinctly Sagittarian passion. George
Borrow, the apostle of the "open road" school, was a typical
Sagittarian; it is related that, when troubled by insomnia, he
would often get up and walk thirty miles at a stretch. Where
a Sagittarian is found to be averse to walking or sports it is
usually found that his Saturn is prominent but in affliction. ...
Travel (Love of) is a manifestation of the Jovian love of
expansion in all forms. Nearly all persons with Jupiter or
Sagittarius prominent have a desire to wander about and
often to explore (although this usually connotes an element
of Scorpio as well). ... Natives of Sagittarius have a great
love of bestowing upon human beings and their actions
names applicable to the animal creation, of which they are so
fond, and they are often slipshod in speech. ... Sagittarius is
also a sign of harmonious muscular action. ... Moon in
Sagittarius is common in maps of athletes." (Charles, E.O. Carter,
Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 140, 178-179, 165, 69)
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So, the astrological experience reveals that there are
members of the anthropological type among us who are recognized
by astrologers as Sagittariuses in terms of their traits, and possess
prominent hunting attributes.
The question posed is - What anthropologial type is this?
Paleonthological findings in Europe reveal the skeletons of
Cro-Magnons who hunted and decorated their caves with drawings
of various animals which in that period lived in Europe, and which
were prey of their hunting abilities. In Encyclopedia Britannica we
read about Cro-Magnons: "Bone remains found at Cro-Magnon
occupation sites indicate that they were successful hunters of such
animals as reindeer, bison, wild horse, and even mammoth."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 1994-2002)
Is it possible that individuals we meet today, characterized
by the traits of Sagittarius, are actually descendants of the ancient
Cro-Magnon type who preserved certain Cro-Magnon
anthropological attributes up to this day? The anthropological
writings state:
“Newer anthropological research
primarily shows that CroMagnons were not entirely lost
and extinguished, they rather
mingled and merged with
incursions of various human
populations which came to
Europe. So today we find quite a
number of individuals who
possess distinctive traits of the
Cro-Magnon
race
in
the
mountain areas of the central
Balkans.” (Srboljub Živanović,
Illnesses of Ancient People, pg 144)
Is there a congruence between the astrological description of
Sagittarius' appearance and the anthropological description of CroMagnons' appearance?
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Astrologers say that Sagittariuses are extremely tall:
"Sagittarius is, on the average, the tallest sign, and Leo and
Capricorn also often produce height..." (Charles, E.O. Carter,
Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 170)
Anthropologists say that a Cro-Magnon man was tall:
"There is no doubt that various, typically short barbaric
tribes viewed them as giants, for they were at least a head
taller than them." (Srboljub Živanović, Illnesses of Ancient
People, pg 144)
“The Cro-Magnon race, tall, broad-faced, with quadrangular
eye sockets, got the name by this site (Cro-Magnon in
France).“ (Encyclopedia of Lexicographic Institute, pg 664)
"Traits of the Cro-Magnon type: height (179-194 cm), strong
constitution, big hands, dolichocephalic skull, short and
broad face, long and narrow nose, high forehead. R.R.
Schmidt: L'aurore de l'espirit humain. Payot, Paris, 1936."
(Marija Đurić-Srejić, Introduction to Physical Anthropology
of Ancient People, pg 296)
We can also find the anthropological description of the
strong constitution of Cro-Magnon body, their big hands,
dolichocephalic (elongated) skull and long nose in the astrological
writings as a description of Sagittarius (or description of persons
born under Jupiter, the planet corresponding to Sagittarius):
"Jupiterians are...massive with strong constitution. The hands
are extremely big and very fleshy. Typical head of
Sagittarius is long and narrow. The nose is long and
straight." (Aleksandar Imširagić, Wheel of Fortune, pg 387390)
Let us note that Cro-Magnons have a massive jaw with
pronounced chin and angular face:
“They are somewhat similar to the Nordids and Atlantids,
but with much more robust stature and elongated head. Their
skin is darker, eye sockets are low and wide, and the whole
cheek is generally wider and more angular, especially at the
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lower part of the face." (Božo Škerlj, General Antropology,
pg 72-73)
"Cro-Magnons were tall, with elongated skull and no
supraorbital ridges, with broad and low face, massive lower
jaw and highly pronounced chin." (Božina M. Ivanović,
Prehistorical Population of Montenegro and Their
Anthropological Traits, Gazette of the Anthropologial
Society of Yugoslavia, issue 33, Belgrade, 1997, pg 38)
We find the same anthropological attributes in the
astrological description of Sagittarius' appearance:
“Some types have rectangular
build, square from shoulders to
hips, with medium long legs.
Back, chest, shoulders and
upper part of their arms are
broad and fat, and are dominant
over hips and legs. The face is
in the shape of a rectangle, that
is, a stretched circle. Full
cheeks and jaw are dominant
over the bone structure (which,
although always considerable,
is not the main facial attribute). A Jupiterian has a big, wellshaped chin – perhaps biggest of all types. The jaw is strong
and fleshy“ (Aleksandar Imširagić, Wheel of Fortune, pg
387-390).
The anthropological sources reveal that a Cro-Magnon had a
voluminous skull in the shape of a dome:
"It is estimated that Cro-Magnon man lived 30,000 years
ago. He has a dome-shaped cranium and a broad forehead.
His cranium of 1,600 cc is above the average for
contemporary man." (Hârun Yahya, The Evolution Deceit,
pg 105)
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The astrological sources use the same words to describe the
size and shape of Sagittarius’ head:
"Here is an extremely big and dome-shaped head with
rectangular contours. The top of the head is full and rounded
- never flat or square" (Aleksandar Imširagić, Wheel of
Fortune, pg 387-390).
In order to compare psychological similarities between the
Cro-Magnon type and Sagittarius in horoscope, we need to find an
area where Cro-Magnons are most common and dominant and
compare their character with the character of Sagittarius in
horoscope.
We read the following about the prevalence of the CroMagnon type in today’s Europe:
“Remains and parts of this sub-race are found in Sweden
(Dalarna), Germany (Westfalia), throughout Europe, and
also in Spain and definitely in the Canary Islands. A part of
our Dalmatians, especially in islands, belongs to this subrace, whose members were found among Old Slavs, that is,
in large numbers in our cemeteries (Bled, etc.).“ (Božo
Škerlj, General Anthropology, pg 72-73)
"Particularly noteworthy are the
Dal people from Dalecarlia (now
Dalarna, Swed.) and the Guanches
of the Canary Islands, the latter of
which is said to represent a
relatively pure Cro-Magnon stock."
(Encyclopedia Britannica 19942002)
If today's Cro-Magnons are
really common in the Swedish
province of Dalarna (or Dalecarlia)
more than other Swedish areas, we
can expect the residents of Dalarna
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to be well-known for those characteristics corresponding to the
psychological attributes of Sagittarius. In "Norwegian Life" by
Ethlyn T. Clough we find a very interesting observation:
"To see the old Swedish customs that have almost entirely
disappeared from the country, one must go to the hill
districts of Dalecarlia, where the people are so unlike the rest
of the Swedes in their dress, their customs and habits, and in
many other respects as to almost seem another race.
The Dalecarlians are great dancers, and the social gatherings
at their homes during the winter are always accompanied by
that form of amusement. During the summer they dance in
the open air. On St. John's Day the entire population, old and
young, dance around a May-pole erected at some convenient
place...
The dances are original and often interesting. ... All the
dances require violent physical exercise, but the Swedish
men and women are famous for muscular development.
Some of the dances are accompanied by pretty melodies
sung in unison by both sexes." (Ethlyn T. Clough,
Norwegian Life, pg 102)
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The province of Dalarna is regarded as “Mecca” of Swedish
folklore, well-known for their specific bright-colored costumes,
dance and music. In Wikipedia, the internet encyclopedia, we read
the following about Dalarna:
"Historically, Dalarna has enjoyed a rich and unique folk
culture, with distinct music, paintings (often centered on
Biblical themes) and handicrafts. ... A famous symbol of the
province is the Dalecarlian horse, in Swedish Dalahäst, a
painted and decorated wooden horse. Sulky-racing is popular
in the region. ... The Vasaloppet, a cross country skiing race
over 90 km, is held annually, on the first Sunday of March,
between Sälen and Mora..." (Wikipedia, Dalarna)
Population of Dalarna is also known for their interest in
sports. In Facts about Dalarna County we read:
"According to sources, Sweden's first official athletics
competition was held in Dalarna, a triathlon in Falun in
1792. In 1883, the first skiing competition in the county was
held in Falun. Since then, Dalarna has hosted a series of
major as well as minor competitions in a number of sports. ...
Athletics is the most popular movement in the county, with
about 1 200 clubs in 67 special district associations, with a
total of approximately 150 000 members." (Facts about
Dalarna County, pg 54, 56).
Beside the gift for hunting, and all the accompanying
abilities given to Cro-Magnons by this gift through their inclination
towards art and sports, we are interested in finding out whether CroMagnons in Dalarna possess other Sagittarius' attributes adequate to
their psychological type.
In answering this question we should take into consideration
that today’s Swedish people to a great extent uprooted their natural
weaknesses through the process of reformation and enlightenment.
It means that we can much more easily recognize the
psychophysical attributes of the people gifted for hunting in Dalarna
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population, than a typical free spirit of Sagittarius, behind which
there is rebellion, arrogance and a lack of discipline.
However, if we look at the historical sources, we might find
such elements, which are probably to a certain extent enlightened in
terms of their contents. In Historical Tales (1908) by Charles Morris
there is a description of the Dalarna population:
"The men of Dalarna, he said, had long been noted for their
courage when their land was in danger. They were renowned
for this in history, and all Sweden looked upon them as the
firmest defenders of its liberties. ... Dalarna being looked
upon as a centre of Swedish patriotism, a number of the
persecuted noblemen took refuge there." (Charles Morris,
Historical Tales: Scandinavian, pg 267, 269)
In Norwegian Life by Ethlyn Clough we read:
"Its people represent the highest patriotism and the noblest
characteristics of the Swedish race, and when any one is
spoken of as a Dalecarlian, it means that he is a free and
intelligent citizen of independent thought and action and
lives a life of manly simplicity." (Ethlyn T. Clough,
Norwegian Life, pg 103)
"Sagittarius is an open, easy-going sign with a friendly and
attractive manner. The natives are usually sportily inclined,
fond of out-of-door games and exercises, and intense lovers
of freedom." (Vivian E. Robson, Astrology and Sex, pg 41)
Population of Dalarna is characterized by multiple
anthropological characteristics, distinct elongation of skull, body
height, prevalence of O blood group (otherwise typical of the
Dinarians and many Mediterranids). Their specific nasality and
melodic accentuation in speech is widely known from the Swedish
Chef in The Muppet Show, who caricatured the particulars of their
dialect.
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Increased
concentration
of
antigen HLA-A28 in Dalarna may
signify that it itself is a characteristic of
the Cro-Magnon type, and so provide us
with a key to determining a wider
prevalence
of
the
Cro-Magnon
population in the world.
Since Cro-Magnons are tall, let
us look at the correlation between the
prevalence of antigen HLA-A28
throughout the world and the prevalence
of tall populations:
Although the carriers of HLA-A28 are not the only populations
characterized by height, we can see a strong correlation between
HLA-A28 and accentuated height in the world, especially in
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Dalarna, Sweden, then in the area of Nilo-Saharan language group
in Africa, West Iran, and Patagonia in South America.
Great prevalence of Cro-Magnon antigen HLA-A28 in
Africa, in the area of Nilo-Saharan language group, can represent an
argument for an old hypothesis of the African origin of the CroMagnon type, or, in any case, a confirmation of their close mutual
genetic origin:
"According to some anthropologists, a Cro-Magnon man
came to Europe from North Africa, where he remained a
racial type even in the later ages" R.R. Schmidt: L'aurore de
l'espirit humain. Payot, Paris, 1936 (Marija Đurić-Srejić,
Introduction to Physical Anthropology of Ancient People, pg
296).
"Although the Cro-Magnon is considered to be a European
race, the structure and volume of Cro-Magnon's cranium
look very much like those of some races living in Africa and
the tropics today. Relying on this similarity, it is estimated
that Cro-Magnon was an archaic African race." (Hârun
Yahya, The Evolution Deceit, pg 105)
If the original carriers of HLA-A28 were really adapted to
life in the African climate, we cannot but wonder whether they
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perhaps genetically became free of a need for clothes, which could
be an obstacle in their adaptation to the very hot African climate.
Astrological description provides us with knowledge of
Sagittarius’ traits which reveal their adaptation to the tropical and
subtropical African climate:
"Jupiterians like wide and loose clothes" (Aleksandar
Imširagić, Wheel of Fortune, pg 390).
"Sagittarius = nudism, sports, nature" (Mile Dupor, Do not
believe it, Check it, pg 197).
Is it truly possible that inclination to nudism is a perverse
consequence of one’s adaptation to a very hot climate?
We can verify that if we recognize such a tendency with an
HLA-A28 population in the circumstances where climate requires
wearing of clothes.
Eskimos, which are members of the Yellow race, are also
mixed with HLA-A28 population, which probably provided them
with the gift for hunting and amazingly high ability of spatial
orientation for which Eskimos are so well-known for. It is known
that Eskimos spend time in their igloos (snow-houses) naked, and
that they are not embarrassed to be naked before members of the
opposite sex.
Anthropological writings also provide information on
Patagonians in the extreme south of South America, who are also
characterized by a high distribution of antigen HLA-A28:
"Their habitations are islands whipped by terrible storms,
rain and snow. They hunt and fish. They move almost naked,
which proves that they are extremely well-built, as Charles
Darwin wrote in The Voyage of the Beagle." (Božo Škerlj,
Man, pg 279)
Astrological writings state:
"Jupiterians are extremely warm-blooded and will astound
others by wearing short-sleeved T-shirts in sharp winter.
They are good in producing their own heat and sweat easily.
They wear sandals and loose clothes, which is probably due
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to their excessive sweating." (Aleksandar Imširagić, Wheel
of Fortune, pg 387, 390)
In anthropological books we read:
"Since the sweat glands are so important for
thermoregulation, African Black people have much more of
them as opposed to White people; the Yellow race has the
least of them.“ (Božo Škerlj, Man, pg 79)
Of course, we should bear in mind that HLA-A28 population
were mixed with populations of different origin. If every tenth
inhabitant of an area bears the Cro-Magnon antigen HLA-A28
inherited from one parent, then in all probability every hundredth
inhabitant of the area has the same antigen inherited from both
parents. This means that in most cases the carrier of the CroMagnon antigen (or any other less common antigen) inherited
different origin from the other parent. This practically means that
people with pure Cro-Magnon (or Sagittarius) traits are very rare in
Europe. It is probable that the Dinarians (Arieses) are often
recognized in Sagittarius’ traits, for they are psychologically very
close to them. When a Cro-Magnon is mixed with a member of
different anthropological type in terms of character (with lower level
of male sex hormones), the psychological type of Aquarius is
adequate to them in the horoscope.
Cro-Magnons in Europe were mixed with the Nordic
anthropological type, and therefore often have light-colored eyes
and blonde hair in youth, which, according to the anthropologist B.
Škerlj, grows darker in the later stages, while in Africa they were
semitized, so are often characterized by fat lips and curly hair. Like
the majority of other African populations, they got the Semitic
haplogroup E through the male side. Despite mixing with other
populations of different origin, HLA-A28 carriers throughout the
world preserved other anthropological characteristics beside
accentuated height: certain physical attributes of European CroMagnons, gift for hunting, proneness to nasal speech, and often the
elements of disharmony in speech intonation and ethnic music,
which are close to blues. Elements of disharmony express their
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character which sees discipline, order and harmony as suffocation of
their freedom, as an attack of reason on their self-willed independent
Ego.
African Blacks (Nilo-Saharans) and Sagittarius have
multiple physical characteristics in common. The anthropological
report on African Blacks states:
"Their body is slender, legs have underdeveloped calf
muscles, feet are flat, they can be extremely tall, some tribes
over 6 feet in height on average. The head is elongated in
most cases, face mostly low and broad, with strong
cheekbones." (Božo Škerlj, General Anthropology, pg 61)
Underdeveloped calf muscles were also described by
astrologers as Sagittarius' attribute:
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"Their legs are often beautifully shaped, although fairly slim
sometimes, especially around ankles and calves."
(Aleksandar Imširagić, Wheel of Fortune, pg 387-390)
Also, Blacks are known for their “sway” as they walk. Astrologers
recognized it in the descendants of the ancient European CroMagnons and attributed it to Sagittarius in the horoscope:
"Sagittarius has a long, swinging stride." (Charles E.O.
Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 49)
The question being posed now is: does the psychological
type of Sagittarius show character closeness to the psychological
type of African Blacks?
Let us pay attention to the traits of the psychological type of
Sagittarius, which are to an extent definitely a consequence of
transformation of their original gift for hunting:
"They are sporty, soldiers of fortune, of roving proclivities,
fond of games of chance, and ready to risk their all on the
turn of a card, the speed of a horse, or a game of ball." (Max
Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars,
pg 104)
"The main planet of these happy people is Jupiter, which
makes them care-free, jolly, superficial. They love travel,
foreign countries and exoticism in all its forms... They are
irresponsible, disregard norms ... Sagittarius likes novelties,
music, sports, fights for human rights, and they keep the
youthful appearance and spirit for a long time. They are
interested in aphrodisiacs and foreign food. They talk a lot,
give boring advice, comment on all and everything, they are
sometimes quarrelsome and unnecessarily confrontational.
When they make noise, it is not a good idea to oppose or
contradict them." (Maja Lončarić, Astrology – The Stars
Talk, pg 44)
“They are very curious, enjoy freedom, do not like rules and
discipline and from an early age start wondering why they
have to fulfill parental demands and yield to some social
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norms...They give no heed to fashion, but choose their own
style and consistently stick to it...In the early ages they face
problems with their parents due to the quite reasonable
limitations they set, or some other specific demands related
to the code of conduct." (The Society of the Astrologers of
Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 114-116)
"Sagittarius = openly give themselves to love, passion,
emotions, nudism, sports, nature." (Mile Dupor, Do not
believe it, Check it, pg 197)
"Flaws: Avoidance of obligations." (Mile Dupor,
Astromedicine, pg 146)
"In the pictorial zodiac, Sagittarius is represented as a
centaur, half horse and half man, and one class of those who
come to birth under its influence are well described by the
animal part thereof, for they are of a sporty nature, ready to
gamble on the speed of a horse at long odds or to stake their
last dollar on a game of cards. They are fond of a "good time
right straight through" and their moral nature is of low grade,
aptly described by the animal part of the symbol, so that they
have no scruples with respect to the indulgence of their
appetites, passions and desires. They are lacking in respect
for both the law and ordinary morals, hence they are often
found among the criminal class." (Max Heindel & Augusta
Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, pg 133)
"Sagittarians are normally
restless. They hate to sit
or stand still. The archer
is physically conspicuous,
if only through his
obvious confidence and
his
disregard
for
conventional behavior".
(Linda Goodman, Sun
Signs, pg 358)
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In the article "An Exploration of Discipline and Suspension
Data" published in The Journal of Negro Education we read about
the disciplinary measures and expelling of students from schools
and universities:
"In Shaker Heights, Ohio, discipline problems among Black
students were a major factor contributing to academic
disengagement (Ogbu, 2003), and in Oakland, although
behaviors that included fighting, defiance of authority,
profanity, and vulgarity were observed among White,
Mexican Americans, Latinos, Chinese, and Filipino students,
they were observed to a much greater extent among the
Black student population (Ogbu, 1998)." (“An Exploration
of Discipline and Suspension Data“, Journal of Negro
Education, The, Fall 2004 by Nichols, Joe D).
In the astrological books we read about Sagittarius’ laziness:
"Sagittarius girls are acutely bored by the confinement of
dusting and mopping. No sooner does she make a bed than it
gets unmade." (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 381).
A well-known stereotype* (#Fusnota: It is interesting that
contemporary American stereotypes about Blacks are significantly
void of moral criticism. According to Wikipedia, two most common
stereotypes which contemporary Americans (1995) have about
Blacks is that they are good athletes and that they are very musical)
about Blacks is that they are lazy. In Africa, laziness of the Blacks
population reached a climax when the colonists withdrew from
Africa. Without external pressure or strong motivation to the
consequences of their work, African people do not show willingness
to work. Naturally, in terms of the need for an external motivational
factor to encourage their activities, Blacks are similar to those
populations they are genetically close to- various Mediterranids and
Dinarians.
Let us note the most common stereotypes about Blacks
among the students at Princeton University in the U.S. in 1933:
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"Superstitious, lazy, happy-go-lucky, ignorant, musical,
ostentatious, very religious, stupid, physically dirty, naïve,
slovenly and unreliable." (Tomeka S. Berry, A Content
Analysis of the Contemporary Portrayal of African
Americans in Children’s Picture Books, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, April, 1999, pg 8)
The tendency of Black population towards being religious
was described as a trait of Sagittarius in the horoscope:
"Psychologically the progressiveness of the sign shows as
Hope, reaching forward into the future in mental
speculations and in religion and philosophy. The belief in
immortality is typically Sagittarian. ... Faith (Religious) is
specially connected with Jupiter, the 9th house, and
Sagittarius." (Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 18, 80)
Black´s religion is based on the highly developed power of
imagination. It is imbued with ceremonies and rituals, which,
according to astrologers, is actually a characteristic of Jupiter, as a
ruler of the Sagittarius constellation:
"Ceremony in the sense of religious ritualism is commonly
attributed to Jupiter, but here again Scorpio is often much to
the fore." (Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 50)
The astrologers say the following about Sagittarius’ attitude towards
marriage:
"It is not a sign which induces to marriage to any great
extent, for both the men and the women value their freedom
far too highly to take at all kindly to any sort of restraint or
restriction." (Vivian Robson, Astrology and Sex, pg 41)
While advising a person interested in marrying a Sagittarius,
astrologer Hana Hart said the following: "He can live only with a
woman who can live without him. If you ask him to swear he will
love you till death do you part, he will bury your love immediately."
(Hana Hart, A man in the palm, pg 109) The lack of loyalty
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faithfulness in marriage so characteristic of Sagittarius is a
temptation of Black´s marriages: "Today only [one-third] of black
children have two parents in the home." "Black children are only
half as likely as white children to be living in a two-parent
household, and are eight times more likely than white children to
live with an unwed mother. For black children under six, 'the most
common arrangement -- applying to 42 percent of them -- was to
live with a never-married mother.'" (Maggie Gallagher, The
Abolition of Marriage, pg 117).
The astrologer Linda Goodman wrote about Sagittarius'
irresponsible and frivolous attitude toward life:
"To the Sagittarian, life is secretly a circus, and he's the
clown, rolling and tumbling through purple hoops in a skyblue suit... On his fingers he wears three turquoise rings; on
his toes are bells... The archer happily blows a lustrous tin
horn... He refuses to accept the seriousness of life." (Linda
Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 366).
"They are mostly fun, have a great sense of humor and are
often childish" (The Society of the Astrologers of
Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 115).
The anthropologist Joseph Deniker wrote the following
about African Blacks:
"Negro races (...) are playful, laughing, lively, and
superficial as children." (Joseph Deniker, The Races of Man,
pg 121)
Astrologers claim that people under the sign of Sagittarius
are very talkative:
"Sagittarius is a very talkative sign, and they tend to push
past limits regularly." (Phyllis Firak-Mitz, Astrology's
Secrets to Hot Romance, pg 203)
"The worst Bores are born under Sagittarius, owing to their
addiction to crazes and sudden enthusiasms, often in
directions that appear to others quite unworthy of such
absorbing interest. The sign is also naturally verbose and
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excitable, and as a rule rather slow at "sensing" the attitude
of others. Astrology can perform few more useful functions,
socially at least, than in bringing home to the natives of
Sagittarius their liability to develop this painful
characteristic." (Charles, E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 44)
The same talkativeness is attributed to the African Blacks by
various anthropologists. Perhaps the best known observation about
the talkativeness of Blacks is the one by Charles Darwin, which he
stated within the context of his claims about the undisputable
differences between races:
"The races differ also in constitution, in acclimatisation and
in liability to certain diseases. Their mental characteristics
are likewise very distinct; chiefly as it would appear in their
emotional, but partly in their intellectual faculties. Every one
who has had the opportunity of comparison, must have been
struck with the contrast between the taciturn, even morose,
aborigines of S. America and the light-hearted, talkative
negroes." (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, pg 146)
The talkativeness of African Blacks and European CroMagnons, which astrologers see in people with Sagittarius' traits, is
probably a consequence of a neglected rational and verbal
intelligence typical of the left side of the brain, due to which their
speech is often unconstrained and has the function of mental relief.
Those attributes of their speech can be discerned in the following
astrological commentary:
"Slang (Use of) is particularly characteristic of the ordinary
Sagittarian. ... Sagittarius: Rapid and often copious talkers;
given to abbreviations, slang, and slipshod speech."
(Charles, E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological
Astrology, pg 165, 168)
It is known that word shortening and slang are distinct traits
of American Blacks. For example, the sentence: "What is happening
in the neighborhood?" – in the Blacks slang is: "Haps in the hood?"
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ARIES – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE
DINARIANS
Astrologers claim the Zodiac sign of Aries to be:
“Intolerant, lose their calm, impulsive, one-sided, harumscarum, give no heed to other people’s happiness, act in a
"pell-mell" way, proud, vengeful, tactless, sensitive to
insults, they do not economize with their power, and even if
they do not achieve their goal- they brag." (Mile Dupor,
Don't Believe it, Check it, pg 57)
“They are often excessively self-confident, impulsive,
reckless, and they do not think about the consequences of
their actions. They are impatient and incapable of taking
advice. In their craving for leadership they are often
uncontrolled, excessive and tactless, and they use attacks and
aggressiveness instead of common sense and diplomacy,
which makes them look silly at the very least." (The Society
of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and
Yourselves, pg 14)
"Aries is not noted for learning from experience. The spirit is
willing, but the disposition is headstrong." (Linda Goodman,
Sun Signs, pg 26).
When we read about this attributes of Aries, we cannot but
recognize in them the character elements of the people of exYugoslavia, especially in the areas of West Serbia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro and Dalmatia. The question that follows is: what
anthropological population is this?
In Characterology of Yugoslavs by the anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković we read:
"In the Yugoslav ethnic area the Dinarians are the most
common race... the Dinarians, in their core, occupy a long
west Balkan limestone plateau, from Istra and the Alps, all
the way to Epirus and Northern Greece, with weaker or
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stronger branches toward the eastern mountainous and
northern Pannonian areas of Yugoslavia. In lesser percentage
they spread far beyond this area, to the South Alps, southern
Germany and Austria, even northern Italy. Through the
closely related Armenoids in the east part of the Balkans,
Asia Minor, Armenia, Kurdistan and some parts of frontal
Asia, the Dinarians are, via some mutual deeper and older
layer, connected with the group of the Caucases, which is
anthropologically very close to them (particularly Ossetians
and Georgians).” (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg. 176)
Georgian and Montenegrian Dinaric
The question is: do the physical attributes of Aries
correspond to the anthropological attributes of the Dinarians?
The astrologer Mile Dupor describes the physical appearance
of an Aries as: "Slender, sunburnt, retroflexed forehead."
(Astromedicine, pg 29) "The nose is prominent and curved from the
root down, lips are thin and tight, jaws are energetic." (Do not
believe it, Check it, pg 56) Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković
also describes the physical appearance of the Dinarians as: "Tall and
slender body, tanned skin, retroflexed forehead, high rooted nose,
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long and prominent, tight lips, with thin line of the Dinarian mouth,
prominent jaws.“ (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 174-175)
The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia describes Aries
as follows: "Sturdy bones, strong body, long neck, expressive
eyebrows" (Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 16). Anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković also states: "The bones are strong with highly
developed muscles, long neck, strong eyebrows, which are arched
and lowered." (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 174)
Astrologer Mile Dupor says that Aries has "shiny transparent
eyes" (Do not believe it, Check it, pg 56), whereas the anthropologist
Dvorniković says that the Dinarian look is "shiny and piercing", and
corresponds to the epic "hawk’s eye" (Characterology of Yugoslavs,
pg 197).
Astrologer Linda Goodman says: "The well-marked brows
often join with the narrow bridge of the nose in forming the sign of
the ram ("Y"), perhaps as a warning to anyone with the silly idea of
trying to stop or conquer him." (Sun Signs, pg 6) Anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković claims: "Strong eyebrows and a hooked nose,
outlined eyes of a free highlander... that look is threatening, making
everybody keep their distance." (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg
197)
Astrologer Linda Goodman described Aries’ walk: "They
may walk with the body slightly bent forward ..." (Sun Signs, pg 14)
Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković described Dinarians’ walk as
follows: "Their body is slightly bent forward..." (Characterology of
Yugoslavs, pg 205) Astrologer Mile Dupor wrote that Aries is
"sunburnt" (Astromedicine, pg 29), and anthropologist B. Škerlj says
that the color of the Dinarians’ skin is “somewhat dark, as if
sunburnt“ (General Anthropology, pg 70).
And, while the astrologer Mile Dupor says that “fuzz“ is a
characteristic of Aries (Astromedicine, pg 29), anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković says that the Dinarians' "face is covered in
hair“ (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 174).
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Georgian Dinaric women
Besides the obvious congruence of the physical attributes of
Aries and a Dinarian, we can notice that their psyches are also
similar. Aries is one of the male astrological signs, which means that
both sexes under this sign have distinct male attributes. Astrologers
claim that female Aries is the most masculine, followed by female
Leo and Sagittarius. Speaking about a female Aries, the astrologer
Maja Lončarić said the following:
"A woman has attributes similar to men’s. She is a head of a
department, company manager, successful in social and
political life, actress, singer, traveler. Her colors are red and
black." (Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 32)
Astrologer Linda Goodman describes the characteristics of
female Aries as typical of men:
"She can get along without a man easier than any female
you'll ever meet... Anything he could do, she can do bettershe thinks... The Aries girl will open her own doors. Shell
also put on her own coat, fight her own battles, pull out her
own chair, hail her taxi and light her cigarette without any
masculine help. Doing it herself is, to her, the fastest way to
get it done. Naturally, this doesn't set too well on the
vulnerable male ego. The Mars girl is determined to take the
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lead, to be the first to move to action, and that includes the
action of making the first advance in romance. Aries females
are the most likely of all the Sun signs to do the proposing,
especially if the man is slow about naming the date. (She
is)... able to take over a man's job when the men aren't
around." (Sun Signs, pg 26)
Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković also presents a
Dinarian woman as the one with distinct male attributes:
"We can also observe in a Dinarian woman a masculine
tendency of the racial type itself. A Dinarian woman does
not have to be what is popularly described as “manlike” at
all, and yet there is something masculine in her, just enough
to enter the European textbooks of racial anthropology. An
accentuated profile is not a feminine attribute, but this very
signature, or in Weininger’s words, a significant “percentage
of masculinity” is not at all rare with the Dinarian women...
and in a Dinarian woman there is a significant percentage of
the masculine element, not only physically (sharp profile,
boney figure, acromegaly), but mentally as well." (Vladimir
Dvorniković, Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 209, 345)
Astrologers recognize in Aries the same mental
characteristics anthropologists recognize in the Dinarians, and they
are mostly a consequence of the vulnerability of their proud psyche.
Astrologer Linda Goodman wrote:
"Although Aries is the firebrand, who forges his way through
life with daring, initiative and enterprise, there's a strange
quirk to his bravery. Hell face the abominable snowman or
the Frankenstein monster without the slightest trace of fear,
yet he can't stand physical pain. He's never a moral coward,
but he can be a huge sissy about anything that hurts. The
dentist is not one of his favorite people." (Sun Signs, pg 13)
Anthropologist V. Dvorniković made the same observation
about Montenegrin heroes:
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“When I visited and questioned some doctors about the
impressions they got regarding their patients, I was surprised
by the statement of a doctor from Boka Kotorska, who said
that he, speaking from a doctor's point of view, would have
to think of this people as “utter cowards“ (those were exactly
his words) - if he didn't know “from national poems and
history“ that they were heroes. For they are all “furious
people of Perast“ and “people of Risan, the glorious heroes“.
Even when slightly injured, they moan and cry for
ambulance, as the aforesaid doctor said to me. And he
expected these very people to show great insensitivity and
endurance.“ (Vladimir Dvorniković, Characterology of
Yugoslavs, pg 334).
The Dinarian type has distinct attributes of the male gender,
in this case the tendency to deal with issues of general social justice.
However, in practice, these attributes are desecrated by the absence
of meekness and humility, which perverts their manly love of
justice, so they see injustice on a global social level as a pursued
occasion and excuse for the manifestation of their own wrath and
hatred. Astrologer Mile Dupor claims that Aries is "proud, vengeful,
impulsive" (Do not believe it, Check it, pg 57), while the
anthropologist Dvorniković uses the same words to describe a
Yugoslav’s "pride" (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 737), "the
same old Dinarian vengefulness" (Ibid, pg 746), referring to them as
"impulsive" (Ibid, pg 769). Pride makes people irresponsible
because it takes away a condition for being responsible– an ability
of objective self-critical questioning, acknowledgement of weakness
and repentance. Such a mentality is a distinct characteristic of the
people of the West Balkans.
Astrologer Linda Goodman says the following about Aries:
"These people will fight what they feel is an injustice on the spot."
(Sun Signs, pg 13) Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković says the
following about the character of Yugoslavs: "They have a developed
sense for social ethics and justice; they are fighters for social
justice." (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 739)
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Anthropologist Hans Günter wrote about the Dinarians:
"Members of this race are characterized by raw strength and
openness, particular righteousness, sense of honor and love
for their country, courage and strong self-awareness... the
Dinarians are characterized by a tendency toward sudden
outbursts of anger and combatitiveness." (Hans F.K.
Günther, The Racial Elements of European History, pg 58)
Anthropologist Branimir Maleš wrote about the Dinarians:
"The striking appearance of a Dinarian man, his bold face,
athletic and at the same time slender figure, have particular
corresponding
mental
characteristics
(Wenzmer):
genuineness, absence of false politeness, courage, boldness,
high level of self-awareness, combativeness and
perseverance in the struggle for life, individuality, and at the
same time a sense of community (fellowships), tendency to
joke around and musical talent." (Branimir Maleš, On
Human Races, pg 37)
Speaking about the Dinarians, Jovan Cvijić concluded:
"When they see injustice, ’they burst into flames’, so much
so that ’it brings tears to their eyes'. Their sensitivity
sometimes forces them to act recklessly. The character of the
people belonging to the Dinarian type is often unrestrained,
and they have a hard time putting up with even petty
injustices." (Jovan Cvijić, The Balkan Peninsula & the
Lands of the South Slavs, Basics of Anthropogeography, pg
19-21)
The astrologer Mile Dupor claims that Aries has "intense
emotions, and they are easily and suddenly excited...they easily act
in the heat of passion" and that they are "driven by passion" (Do not
believe it, Check it, pg 56). Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković
wrote that a Yugoslav is characterized by: "Extreme excitement of
passion and affects" (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 767).
"Impulsive reaction of character and temperament" (Ibid, pg 740).
"Short-tempered and prepared for sharp reactions and outbursts of
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anger" (Ibid, pg 768). Astrologer Linda Goodman writes: "The ram
will talk back to a traffic cop or an armed gangster with equal vigor,
if either one happens to annoy him. He may regret it later, but
caution won't concern him in the heat of the moment." (Sun Signs,
pg 13) According to astrologer Mile Dupor "Aries seeks for
challenges. They are eager heroes. They rush easily without much
thinking" (Do not believe it, Check it, pg 57), and anthropologist
Jovan Cvijić writes: "There are multiple cases of Dinarians going for
extreme solutions, without regard to interest, benefit and
"sensibility", fully aware that their life might be in danger or that it
might remain blackened and ruined". Anthropologist Dvorniković
described Yugoslav mentality as: "spiteful" (Characterology of
Yugoslavs, pg 769). Pride naturally makes people sensitive, easily
insulted and prone to conflicts with other people. Astrologer Linda
Goodman says that Aries "Any reputation he gets for prejudice
comes from his tendency to lump people into two distinct camps his friends and his enemies." (Sun Signs, pg 17). Anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković describes the same dichotomy as typical of
our people: "Instead of one collective We, there is still an
antipolarity of We and You, We and Them. The readiness to fight
and oppose, the revolutionary inflammation is a well-known trait of
a Balkan highlander" (Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 711, 739).
Zoran Đinđić described the phenomenon of our people as
follows:
“I have learned, and I can assure you, I will never be the one
who will play on differences, even though I know that in this
country you get the most votes if you say: “They are to
blame“. In any direction. My problem is that, when I say to
people: “Let’s do something about it“, they ask me: “Against
whom? America? Russia? China?“ And then I say: "No,
against nobody! We do not have opponents, we have
partners!" And then they say to me: "We don't understand
that! We would understand if you told us who is against us,
so that we could see what is to be done". That is our
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problem, we easily unite against others, but hardly unite for
our own selves“.
Speaking about Aries, the astrologer Mile Dupor listed the
attributes which actually correspond to the Dinarian type:
"Emotions: ardent, fierce, patriotic. They are hard to control.
Act in the heat of passion easily. They are hard to restrain.
Will: induced by affects, regularly beyond reason. They have
difficulty tolerating other people’s different opinions.
Temperament: choleric, eruptive, exuberant. Society: when
in company, they easily utter insults. They do not get along
in a team. Virtues: honest, honorable, veracious, patriotic, an
enthusiastic idealist, seeks for challenges, proud, courageous,
an eager hero. Flaws: uncompromising dictators,
underestimate danger, intolerant, lose their calm, impulsive,
one-sided, harum-scarum, give no heed to other people’s
happiness, act in a "pell-mell" way, proud, vengeful, tactless,
sensitive to insults, they do not economize with their power,
and even if they do not achieve their goal- they brag. They
prefer: honor, applause, approval (otherwise it gets tiring for
them), pose, uniforms, marching, weapons..." (Mile Dupor,
Don't Believe it, Check it, pg 74)
“They are intolerant, cannot stand interference in their job,
and are constantly aggressive. They interfere in other
people’s relations. They are easily provoked.“ (Mile Dupor,
Astromedicine, pg 100, 29).
The Society of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia wrote the
following about Aries:
"They are vital, straightforward and determined. Although
intellectual, they rarely trust their restless mind, so their
actions are based on intuition rather than deliberation. They
are great competitors. They want to be first and the best in
everything they do, strive for leadership, authority and
superiority, and they will do everything they can to become
famous and acknowledged. They are often too self-
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confident, impulsive, reckless, without consideration of the
consequences of their actions. Even in the mature age they
cannot free themselves from either stubbornness or self-will
and acquire a necessary level of caution. They are usually
not capable of restraining themselves, lack tranquility and
composure, they are impatient and incapable of taking
advice. In their craving for leadership they are often
uncontrolled, excessive and tactless, using attacks and
aggressiveness instead of common sense and diplomacy,
which makes them look silly at the very least. This is
particularly apparent in cases when they do not possess true
qualities, but want to impose themselves and surpass those
who are pre-dispositioned to be leaders. Aries has difficulty
accepting defeat. Failure has never been a reason for them to
give up what they are up to... They are not capable of
performing a job which demands long term devotion and
patience, and which does not give room for personal
initiative...In their willingness and impatience to achieve
their best, they place interests above principles, overstate
their strength, act arrogantly and insolently in relation to
others, suffocating their ambitions... When they are angry,
they rant and rave at anybody in their way, and there is a
possibility of physical encounter as well...Aries are
constantly tense, which brings them headaches...Children
under this sign show no interest in studying, but the desire
for money and status makes them not only work hard, but it
also makes them to go back to study at a later age and
acquire qualifications. They dislike bureaucracy.” (Meet
Astrology and Yourselves, pg 15)
Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković wrote about the
influence of the Dinarian “blood” on the character of Yugoslavs:
“Sloppiness, superficiality and a lack of work consciousness,
not to mention a very rudimentary sense of duty, these are all
ingredients in the ethos of Yugoslavs' work... Cultural halfeffort? A lack of what is called a working culture?
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Definitely! But perhaps excessively self-aware Dinarian
blood... As a rule, in organized, collective intellectual work a
Yugoslav shows even less disciplined working spirit.
There are countless examples of this; there are also cases
where even a psychological test or an experiment would not
show purer traits: unrestrained, primitive bias, arrogant
sensitivity, bitterness, distrust, hatred, envy, as well as a lack
of discipline, impartiality and fairness... Tense and alert
sensitivity, striving to detach themselves by acquiring an
atmosphere of respectability becomes an important
characteristic of this tribal man. Heroic pride, competition
and competitiveness, as well as intense bitterness they
employ when in combat, whether with their neighbor or an
enemy of the state is a specific hallmark of the tribal fighter.
Hence their lack of discipline in midst of combat, for he feels
a collective struggle to be the struggle for his own worth.
Without the element of heroic pride this combat is
unimaginable...
Our intelligent, educated person did not learn to exercise
concern of whether their personal acclaim, interest, and even
their comfort might collide with the justifiable area of
another person’s personal life... I saw such an example in
one of our towns. An agile mayor managed to introduce
electricity and electric lights. Those who are well-off rushed
to introduce electricity into their homes, but one of them, the
"most respectable” citizen, maintained his petroleum lamp
out of spite, just because the electricity was introduced into
the town by – his tough opponent. The examples are
countless, and all of them follow the same pattern. Excessive
personal sensitivity, pride, primitive and rough expression of
envy, sick and selfish egocentricity, these are all basic traits
which hinder creation of any kind of social order in that
environment as well as any moral and material prosperity...
Our arguments, which are at first temperamental, then
heated, and finally outright hostile, and which end in all the
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parties maintaining their point of view even more bitterly
and persistently than before, are quite well-known.”
(Vladimir Dvorniković, Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg
661-662, 708, 725, 737, 815)
The Englishman Robert Leaton, who published the
collection of Serbian folk poems in English in 1861, described the
character of our epics in words which actually describe the Dinarian
mentality:
"It is sad to observe the demoralization of a nation in its
poetry. It praises betrayal of a common enemy as a universal
virtue, mistakes deceit for strategy, lies for courtesy, cruelty
for honor, and allows a hero's character any other sin but the
sin of physical cowardice." (Vladimir Dvorniković,
Characterology of Yugoslavs, pg 546)
Even though in their heroism towards a common cause
Dinarians show fanatic courage and extreme emotionality, when
responding to the concrete life’s needsthey faces directly, they show
lazy indifference and emotional numbness. Perhaps both traits were
accurately described by anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković when
he said that Georgians, who are mainly of a Dinarian
anthropological origin, were “heroic sluggards”.
Anthropologist Jovan Cvijić expressed the following
observations about the Balkan Dinarians:
"They are mainly very impulsive people who act
immediately, often without a proper deliberation. Majority of
the so-called gifted ones have given little results so far. They
mainly do not elaborate their jobs (not only in practice but in
their minds as well) to determine the ultimate consequences.
They rarely do something completely...When they lack
experience, their strong sensitivity makes them naive. They
often yield to sentimental and indelicate optimism. Their
utter sensitivity often becomes their weakness; their
generosity makes them unjust.“ (Jovan Cvijić, The Balkan
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Peninsula & the Lands of the South Slavs, Basics of
Anthropogeography, pg 21)
Distinct pride forms a huge Ego in a Dinarian person, which
makes them live only for themselves and also disinterested in the
real needs of other people, unless the fulfillment of these needs
satisfies their own pride. Astrologers say the following about Aries:
"They pay no heed to other people’s happiness." (Mile
Dupor, Do not believe it, Check it, pg 74)
Linda Goodman says that "Aries pushes ahead with
confidence, caring little for the feelings of others, and his attitude,
especially in youth, is "me first," ... Most politicians wait to see what
people want before airing their positions. The average Aries has his
own ideas of what the people need, never mind what they want, and
he'll see that they get it... The ram is conscious only of himself ...
His needs come first." (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 17-18, 13).
Dr Zoran Đinđić described in one of his speeches an
example which in a very clear way reveals disinterest of our people
in the needs which go beyond the needs of their huge Ego and have
wider social significance:
“I came today, this morning...in front of the cable factory in
Jagodina, and saw a nice clock, a beautiful clock at the
entrance which did not work. I wanted to come back. I saidok! You have got problems with technology, you have got
problems with raw materials, you have got problems with
working capital, but what is a problem for this clock to
work?! Is that a problem?! That’s exactly my point. Let us
do what we can do in our power, and not make excuses likeworld conspiracy. Maybe there is a world conspiracy! But let
us first see what we are doing in our own backyard, in our
own town, in our own country, and when we complete our
homework, then let us see whether the teacher hates us or
not.”
Anthropologist Vladimir Dvorniković says that an average
Yugoslav person is: "Hardly sympathetic" (Characterology of
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Yugoslavs, pg 767). "They have a weakly developed sense for social
life" (Ibid, pg 711), that their "social sense is rudimentary" (Ibid, pg
767), that they are "self-absorbed" (Ibid, pg 768).
"Egocentric spreading and forgetting about the others is
significantly reflected in our intelligent, public figures,
people of title, position, etc." (Ibid, pg 726)
"Our intelligent, educated person did not learn to exercise
concern of whether their personal acclaim, interest, and even
their comfort might collide with the justifiable area of
another person’s personal life. Sometimes it might be just
about the lack of awareness that having regard for others is
the essence of any, and not just social, culture, while at other
times you might- quite often- in the gestures of our people
feel something defiant, or even cynical when ignoring all of
the “foolish regards” for other people” (Ibid, pg 725)
A huge proud Ego, with all its side-effects: kindness and
heroism out of pride, lack of self-critique and responsibility,
disregard and subjectivity, unwillingness to accept criticism and
take advice, proud envy and a need to belittle all of those people
whose values and success exceeds the average, vain sensitiveness
and aggressiveness, incapability to suffer injustice, etc. these are all
the characteristics of Dinarian populations in the whole areas of
their prevalence. In order to define the areas of higher prevalence of
the Dinarian population, we will use the findings from both
anthropology and genetics.
The Dinarians and
various
types
of
Mediterranids
have
a
common haplogroup J
(HG-J) on Y chromosome,
except for the Atlantic
Mediterranids, who have
HG-I, which means that
the
Dinarians
have
common origins with most
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of the Mediterranids, and, according to these facts – Protoegiptian
origin.
Namely, the skeletons of the ancient Egyptians are in most
cases of Mediterranean origin, and to a smaller extent of Dinarized
Mediterranean origin.
In The People of Lerna; Analysis of a Prehistoric Aegean
Population (J. Lawrence Angel, Princeton, N.J., American School of
Classical Studies at Athens, 1971, ppg 36-38) we read that the
Dinarized Mediterranids the characteristic of the skeletons foud in
lower parts of Egypt, and also to an extent of the whole
Mediterranean, Middle East and the Caucasus region.
Within the Dinarian-Mediterranean haplogroup J, the
Dinarians possess the branch HG-J2a. We can see that the
prevalence of J2a largely matches the prevalence of the Dinarian
type based on the analyses of physical anthropologists.
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The Dinarian branch HG-J2a is divided into several subtypes (J2a1, J2a2, etc.), where J2a1 is typical of our population, and
also represents the most common HG-J variant among Georgians.
Branch J2a1 is also divided into several branches (J2a1a, J2a1b,
etc.), and J2a1b is the most common variant of the Dinarians among
citizens of Belgrade.
As we have stated before, the analysis of origin based solely
on different mutations of Y chromosome is not comprehensive,
because it follows only male origin, so we will now analyze HLA
system data.
Antigen HLA-B5, typical of the Dinarians, is the most
common antigen among the Pashtuns (39.9%), the Kurds (29.8%),
Georgians (25.5%), in Saudi Arabia (36.6%), Oman (39%), Iraq
(33.9%), central Portugal (31.1%), and in the area of central and
northern Italy (31.7%). Almost every third citizen (29.02%) of
former Yugoslavia inherited the Dinarian antigen HLA-B5 from one
parent. It means that every third person in the area could recognize
in themselves the Aries' traits (if they irresponsibly succumb to their
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weaknesses), without regard to the sign or ascendant they were born
under, and as such would be tempted to believe in the astrological
factor.
Based on the genetic findings, we can determine which
populations are most closely related to the Dinarians. Alleles of
antigens HLA-B35, B78 and B53 are structurally closest to different
alleles of HLA-B gene which express themselves in antigen HLAB5. HLA-B35 is typical of the Mediterranean population (ancient
Pelasgians, Philistines, Etruscans, etc.). HLA-B78 is typical of
Senegal (city of Dakar) in Africa (16.1%). B53 is most common in
Central Africa and Kazakhstan. Antigen HLA-B53 is also antigen
HLA-B, which is most common with American Blacks (23.96%).
We can see that the great difference in skin color between different
anthropological types (which is adaptive) does not necessarily imply
great genetic distance, and hence great difference in temptations of
character either. The following accusations racists directed towards
Blacks can also apply to White populations which are genetically
and psychologically close to Blacks, and which never experienced
spiritual enlightenment and character reform:
“The theory of inferiority of the people with dark skin claims
that, for instance, Negroes are not capable of overcoming
their primary tribal social structure. Therefore, they cannot
reach higher forms of state organization, but can at best
reach the height of European countries from the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries when absolutism governed.“
(Ljubomir Tadić, Political Science, Publishing&Graphic
Institute, Belgrade, 1996, 2nd edition).
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LEO– THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE
ATLANTIC MEDITERRANIDS
According to the bestseller Astrology Through A Psychic's
Eyes by Sylvia Browne, the people born under the sign of Leo are
very tall. In the book Meet Astrology and Yourselves we read the
following about Leo’s traits:
“Appearance: taller, strong body constitution, slim while
young, prone to obesity in later age, bulky bones, straight
nose, dignified posture“(The Society of the Astrologers of
Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Youselves, pg 65).
In the university textbook of anthropology we read that the
Atlantic Mediterranids are the tallest people in Europe, and the
Sinids are the tallest in Asia. Both populations show other
anthropological similarities, which indicate their common origin.
Atlantid and Sinide
“The Atlantids are tall, long-headed people with dark hair
and eyes, and are often very dark. Their stature is slender,
and yet vigorous. We can find them all over the Atlantic
coast and the Mediterranean...We can find the Sinids in
North China and Korea; men's height ranges from 164 to
168 cm, which makes them the tallest of all the Asian
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Yellow people, and their head is elongated. They are much
more slender in stature than the other members of the
Yellow race.“ (Božo Škerlj, General anthropology, pg 69,
65)
“North Chinese – the Sinids – are also Yellow people,
although we can rarely see in them the ultimate forms of
adaptation to the Arctic area. They are taller than the
Tungids and less stocky; their proportions make them more
similar to the Mediterranids." (Božo Škerlj, Man, pg 318)
In order to determine whether an Atlantic Mediterranean
truly corresponds to the Leo type in the horoscope, we must pay
attention to Leo’s immunity and long life:
"Health: Leos are strong and immune." (The Society of the
Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Youselves,
pg 65)
In Astromedicine by the astrologer Mile Dupor we read
about Leos’ longevity:
“For those who were born at the time of strong aspects of the
Sun with large planets and good aspects of small bodies
which provide rhythm will have a long life...Or, to make a
simplification for laymen’s sake: Those who have the Sun
sign and the Ascending signs of Leo and Gemini live long.
This means that the two most important rhythms are strong:
heart- Leo and breathing- Gemini ; the former easily
recovers from anything because they are strong, the latter do
it quickly, because their functions are flexible" (Mile Dupor,
Astromedicine, pg 85).
The research done by a group of Greek scientists
(Papasteriades C, Boki K, Pappa H, Aedonopoulos S, Papasteriadis
E, Economidou J, HLA phenotypes in healthy aged subjects,
Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, Evangelismos
Hospital, Athens, Greece, 1997) discovered a significant correlation
between life duration and antigen HLA-DR7.
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In the average Greek population (405 healthy individuals
between the age of 18 and 65), the presence of antigen HLA-DR7
amounts to 15.67%, whereas in the population of the long-lived (171
healthy individuals between the age of 75 and 104) the presence of
the same antigen was doubled, 38.33%.
The persons with antigen DR7 in Europe mostly have
antigen HLA-B12 in their HLA-B gene, while those in China have
HLA-B13.
Maps of world prevalence of both antigens show that the
HLA-B12 antigen corresponds to the prevalence of the Atlantic
Mediterranids in Europe (mostly in the area of the ancient
megalithic culture of the Western Europe), and that the HLA-B13
antigen corresponds to the prevalence of the Sinids in Asia (in the
area of Sino-Tibetan language group).
Are both populations characterized by desire for power and
tendency towards violent behavior, which are exactly the traits of
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the psychological type of Leo in horoscope? In order to provide a
clear answer to this question, let us observe to what extent and
among which nations the Atlantic Mediterranids and the Sinids are
most common. The Atlantic Mediterranean antigen HLA-B12 is
most common with the Basques (38.7%), then in South-West
England – with the Cornish (37.3%) and the Welsh (32.0%),
Scottish people (36.9% in Orkney Islands), the Irish (35.7%),
Spaniards (31.1%), in the White population of Australians (28.76%),
in Poland (25.3%), in the average population of Sweden (20.8%)
and England (19.5%).
It is also interesting that the Antigen HLA-B12 is highly
represented in Easter Island (37%), which was long time ago
populated by tall and pale people belonging to the culture of Rapa
Nui, known for their megalithic monuments. B12 is the most
common HLA-B antigen among the population of Denmark
(24.1%), Ukraine (20.9%) and France (20.4%). In the area of the
Middle East, HLA-B12 is most common with the Kurds (25.7%),
whose certain tribes are characterized by tall stature and
dolichocephalic skull. In the Far East, HLA-B12 is represented
almost exclusively with Koreans (22.56%), and a small province in
Japan (Aichi, 30.4%).
In Africa, HLA-B12 is common with Tswana and Tutsi
tribes, which provides these tribes with the anthropological
characteristics which makes them resemble the members of the
White race, which thus put Tutsi in privileged positions during the
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era of European colonialists. In northern Dalmatia (Rijeka) 22.22%
population has HLA-B12, and in the area of central Dalmatia (Hvar)
26.2%. In Serbia, 16.46% population has HLA-B12. Carleton Coon
wrote about Dalmatia: “Dalmatia is the home, in solution, of a
strong Atlanto-Mediterranean strain... which must go back in both
places to a considerable antiquity." (The Races of Europe, pg 591).
Antigen HLA-A reveals several branches of the Atlantic
Mediterranids in Europe (HLA-A29, A31, A32), and Asia (A31,
A33) who preserved antigen B12 or B13 in HLA-B gene, and
antigen DR7 in HLA-DR gene. Antigens A29, 31, 32 and 33 are
genetically very close.
The combination A29, B12, DR7 is typical of the population
of Western Europe (the Basques), and the combination A32, B12,
DR7 is typical of the population of Herzegovina.
Do we notice tendency towards violence, a trait of the
psychological type of Leo, among Herzegovians? The greatest and
the most bizarre crimes in the wars in this part of Europe were
committed by the people of West Balkans (especially Herzegovina),
regardless of their nationality, religion or ideology for which they
took part in the wars.
However, the question is: Aren’t Herzegovians the typical
representatives of the Dinarian anthropological type? Anthropologist
Carleton Coon, confused with the accentuated height of the Dinarian
population in the central area of West Balkans (from Croatia to the
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river of Drim in North Albania), wrote: “The origin of this Dinaric
giantism is obscure” (Carleton Stevens Coon, The Races of Europe,
pg 254). Based on the contemporary findings in genetics, we know
that the source of the Dinarian gigantism is in their mix with the
naturally tall Atlantic Mediterranean type in the area of central
Dalmatia, Herzegovina, West Montenegro and West Serbia.
The analysis of Y chromosome, characteristic solely of men,
revealed the largest distribution of haplogroup I which corresponds
to the Atlantic Mediterranids (instead of the Dinarian haplogroup
J2a), in the area of the West Balkans where population is the tallest.
In 2005, a research made in Bosnia and Herzegovina revealed that
HG-I presence among Croats is 73.3%, 48.2% among Bosnians, and
34.6% among Serbs. Croat subjects mostly came from Herzegovina,
Bosnians came from central Bosnia, and Serbs came from the
Republic of Srpska, which is why the national differences in the
prevalence of HG-I are so great. HG-I prevalence among Belgraders
is 36.28%.
If the Atlantic Mediterranids live mixed with the Dinarians
in the West Balkans, then we should ask ourselves if it is impartial
to claim that the most bizarre crimes are a consequence of the
Atlantic Mediterranean, not only Dinarian influence. Even though
both types are prone to crime, there is a difference in character.
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Unlike the Dinarian, who killed in the Balkan wars to get revenge
due to the hurt pride of their tribal or national Ego, the Atlantic
Mediterraneans slaughtered their victims out of pure enthusiasm,
with a smile on their face, with a desire to exhibit power and
violence over another human being. Gerhard Gezeman wrote about
the case when, in the war between the Montenegrin Dinarians and
Turks, Turks ran out of weapons in the course of a battle, so the
Montenegrins themselves provided them with weapons in order to
continue the battle. They felt it would be dishonorable to beat the
Turks just because they ran out of weapons. This is an example of
the Dinarian pride which corresponds to the psychological type of
Aries. However, the crimes which were committed by Herzegovian
Ustashas in the World War II, as well as the crimes which were
committed by the members of all three nations in the last Balkan
war over innocent civilians, helpless victims- imprisoned women
and children, definitely have a different character. They correspond
to the violent character of the psychological type of Leo, who would
come down with no mercy to get their victims as if they were not
human beings. The desire for power and tendency towards violence
were no less of a characteristic of the people of Northern Europe –
until reformation and enlightenment. Let us remember the warlike
Vikings and their descendants, the combative Swedes, whose
genetic analysis reveals a combination of the Atlantic Mediterranean
haplogroup I and Nordic haplogroup R. Referring to the Atlantic
Mediterranids, anthropologist Božo Škerlj wrote: “According to
Norwegian experts, ethnologists and anthropologists, the Vikings
mostly corresponded to that type.“ (General Anthropology, pg 69)
Scientists think that one branch of haplogroup I corresponds
to the descendants of the ancient Vikings (I1a), whereas the other
branch corresponds to the descendants of the ancient members of
megalithic culture in Western Europe (I1b2). The third branch is
common with us here in the Balkans, in the east of Europe and
Northern Caucasus (I1b), and the fourth populates northern
Germany, Denmark and Netherlands (I1c) and is present in various
branches of Germanic people.
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We can recognize the violent character of the Germanic
people up to the time of reformation and enlightenment, prior to
which it was filled with the other attributes of an Atlantic
Mediterranean (the psychological type of Leo in horoscope) in the
description of the character of the Germanic people by the Roman
historian Tacitus:
"Nor are they as easily persuaded to plough the earth and to
wait for the year's produce as to challenge an enemy and
earn the honour of wounds. Nay, they actually think it tame
and stupid to acquire by the sweat of toil what they might
win by their blood. Whenever they are not fighting, they pass
much of their time in the chase, and still more in idleness,
giving themselves up to sleep and to feasting, the bravest and
the most warlike doing nothing, and surrendering the
management of the household, of the home, and of the land,
to the women, the old men, and all the weakest members of
the family. They themselves lie buried in sloth, a strange
combination in their nature that the same men should be so
fond of idleness, so averse to peace." (Gaius Cornelius
Tacitus, Germany, pg 17)
The Atlantic Mediterranean branch I1b2a is most common in
the area of Lower Saxony in Germany.
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The areas of southern Lower Saxony and northern Hesse
were in ancient times populated by the German tribe Chatti, which
were described by the Roman historian Tacitus:
"This people are distinguished with bodies more hardy and
robust, compact limbs, stern countenances, and greater vigor
of spirit. For Germans, they are men of much sense and
address. ... They account fortune amongst things slippery and
uncertain... As soon as they arrive to maturity of years, they
let their hair and beards continue to grow, nor till they have
slain an enemy. Over the blood and spoil of a foe they make
bare their face. They allege, that they have now acquitted
themselves of the debt and duty contracted by their birth, and
rendered themselves worthy of their country, worthy of their
parents." (Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Germany, pg 29-30)
A specific mixture of the Atlantic Mediterranean
anthropological type is also common in Eastern Europe, referred to
as “Pont” or “Cherkes” type by Russian anthropologists, the name
which came from the Cherkes in the North Caucasus, where the type
is very common. We can recognize it by the palatal and dental
fricatives in speech, i.e. hissing pronunciation of sounds (for
example: /Sj/ or /zj/), typical of the pronunciation in those languages
(from Polish to Cherkes) which cover the area of its prevalence in
the east of Europe.
The people of
northern Caucasus possess
the same branch as the
people of West Balkans
within haplogroup I: HGI1b. In northern Caucasus,
58% Darginians have HGI, as well as 24.4% of
Cherkes.
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The Darginians and Cherkes speak the languages which
belong to a unique northern Caucasus language group, which has the
common vocabulary of the same word roots with the language of
ancient Hattians (former Hettites), the non-Indoeuropean aboriginal
people of Asia Minor and ancient Canaan.
For example, zahai (‘battle’ in the language of Hatti) – is
zauz (‘war’ in the language of the Cherkes). ‘Hati’ in the language
of the Cherkes means ‘to rule’, etc. Let us take a look at the words
belonging to the ancient language of Hettites: pinu (child), sapu
(god), Kasku (the god of the Moon), Vurusemu (the goddess of the
Moon), hilamar (temple), tabarna (emperor), tuhkanti (prince).
Some non-Indo-European words in the later Hettite language can
also be explained by the language influence of Hattian natives in
Asia Minor: tanduki (mankind), titita (nose), taptappa (nest), amijara
(canal), etc. Under the genetic influence of Hettites, the language of
Hettites is rich in fricatives as well as the modern language of the
Cherkes. It can be clearly observed in the names of Hettite cities:
Neshi, Kushara, Hattushash, Kadesh, as well as the names of Hettite
rulers: Pusharuma, Hatushili, Murshili, Shuppiluliuma, etc. The
language connection between the ancient Hettites and today’s
people of north Caucasus confirms that the origin of the Atlantic
Mediterranids is in the Middle East.
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Anthropologist Carleton Coon had earlier established, on the basis
of skeleton analysis, that the same Atlantic Mediterranean
population living in the north of Europe, also lives today in Palestine
and Iraq (The Races of Europe, pg 292).
"Egyptian illustrations of the New
Kingdom show the Palestinian Amorites to
have been a race much more like the
Northern Europeans than the Semites."
(Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th ed., Vol. I,
Art. Amorites)
During the reign of famous Hammurabi,
the Amoreans ruled Sumer. Anthropologist
Coon said the following about the
skeletons belonging to ancient Sumerians:
“It can be shown that Sumerians who lived
over five thousand years ago in
Mesopotamia are almost identical in skull
and face form with living Englishmen.“
“The Mesopotamians, on the other hand,
represent a blend or a transitional form
between the taller Atlanto-Mediterranean
and the Irano-Afghan race.” (The Races of
Europe, pg 83, 415).
Scientists assume that the carriers
of HG-I1b2 in Western Europe match the descendants of the ancient
megalithic culture. According to the anthropologist Carleton Coon,
the anthropological traits of human skeletons in the area of the
megalithic culture completely correspond to the Atlantic
Mediterranids:
"Megalithic: Tall stature, means 167-171 cm., slender build;
skull length over 190 mm.; cranial index 68-72 means,
individual range below 78; vault moderate in height, less
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than breadth; forehead modrately sloping, browridges often
of moderate heaviness, muscular markings stronger, skull
base wider, face medium to long, nose leptorrhine, mandible
often deep and moderately wide." (The Races of Europe, pg
75)
"The megalithic culture. In Europe, this architecture was first
found in the Pyrenean Peninsula, from where it spread to
France, Italy, England, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and
Sweden. Its origin probably should be sought in the countries
of South-East Mediterranean (Lebanon, Palestine), where it
was found in the 5th century BC." (Encyclopedia of the
Lexicographic Institute IV, pg 294, Zagreb, 1968)
As well as most of the other
nations of northern Europe, today’s
Irish represent a mixture of blonde
Nordids with the aboriginal Atlantic
Mediterranean population. The Irish
mythology contains a few legends
about its aboriginal people who
populated Ireland on more than one
occasion, coming from the area of
Eastern
Europe
and
the
Mediterranean. According to one of
them, Mil Espaine (Latin: Miles
Hispanie, “The Warrior of Spain“) is a forefather of the last settlers
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of Ireland, "the sons of Mil" or "Milesians", who came from the east
to Spain, where he died in a battle, but his wife and their eight sons
came to Ireland.
Today’s Welsh have a high concentration of the Atlantic
Mediterranean antigen HLA-B12, as well as melodic accentuation in
speech, which corresponds to the astrological description of Leo’s
speech: “Deep and strong, sometimes oratorical or pompous.“
(Charles E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg
167) This melodic accentuation transformed many word of the
Welsh language into a form which suits the Mediterranean
pronunciation: English: to centre, Welsh: canoli; English: to carry,
Welsh: cario; English: to carol, Welsh: caroli; English: to cathartic,
Welsh: carthai; English: to court, Welsh: caru; English: to clay,
Welsh: clai; English: undeceive, Welsh: disiomi; English: clear of
dross, Welsh: disorodi; English: hope, Welsh: gobeithio; English:
granulate, Welsh: gronynu, etc.
In the West Balkans
the Atlantic Mediterranean
population
transformed
voice ’jat’ into ’i’, unlike all
the other native populations,
which transformed it into
’e’, so later, when the people
who spoke ikavica dialekt
mixed with those who spoke
ekavica,
they
formed
ijekavica in the areas when
the two dialects merged. In
the areas with the highest concentration of the Atlantic
Mediterranids people speak with ikavica dialect. A similar process
of transformation occurred in Ukrainian and Polish languages.
We have seen that genetics reveals that the Atlantic
Mediterranids share a close genetic origin with the Sinids, the
anthropological type of the original Chinese (people of Han), who
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was mixed with the members of the Yellow race in Northern China
and Korea (originally with a branch of the Finno-Ugric, and later on
with more numerous Mongols).
The term Sinids in the anthropological science originated
from the Old Testament Jewish tradition, which refers to the
Chinese as the Sinites, the descendants of Canaan’s son- Sidon.
According to the Holy Bible, the Sinites along with the Amoreans
and Hattians are the descendants of Noah’s grandson Canaan. The
very Korean legends speak about the forefather of all the Koreans
whose name was Hwanung, and who was "sent from heaven to the
earth by God Hwanin". The root of the name "Hwan" is close to the
root of the biblical name "Canaan”, in Hebrew pronounced as
“Knaghan”, who, as Noah’s grandson, and one of Ham’s four sons,
represents a father of all Canaaneans. According to the Holy Bible,
Canaaneans are very tall. The population of the land of Canaan was
described by the Jewish "spies" as follows: "The land, through
which we have gone to search it, [is] a land that eateth up the
inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it [are] men of
a great stature." (Numbers 13:32) The link between Canaan’s
descendants in the East (the Sinids) and West (the Atlantic
Mediterranids) lies in the musical scale they have in common –
anhemitonic pentatonic scale (playing the black keys in the
keyboard), which we recognize in the music of today’s Celts,
Romanians and Chinese. Anhemitonic pentatonic scale reveals the
spirit of victory and power. The desire for power can be seen in the
attributes of the ancient megalithic culture, as well as the common
symbol of dragon as the symbol of power (the symbol of the
Chinese nation and the power of its empire, the flag of ancient
Sarmatians, the myth of the Loch Ness monster, the emblem of
Wales, etc). The word Han in Chinese denotes a tyrant. The spirit of
violence with a distinct disrespect of human’s personality is present
throughout the entire history of the Chinese, both the ancient and the
contemporary one. The contemporary events in China and North
Korea reveal the same totalitarian spirit. The majority of the
population of Mongolian and Finno-Ugric descent reveals a
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cowardly incapacity of resisting the violence of less numerous but
more hostile Canaan's descendants.
Old Vikings, then the warlike Swedes, Danes and Northern
Germans, in the meantime became peace-loving and meek.
Nevertheless, by abandoning the idea of enlightenment, their spirit
of desire for power is awakening again. Although it is restrained
from open expression due to their contemporary cultural values, we
can recognize it in their aggressive sports and hooligan behavior of
their fans, as well as their foreign policy which seeks to make peace
in the world by violence instead of education. Their cinematography
is also all the more saturated with violence. Their desire for power
reflects itself in the contemporary movies whose protagonists
implement justice by their supernatural powers and violence. We
can recognize the Atlantic Mediterranean sense of humor, filled with
violence and eccentricity, in the British series of movies called
"Monty Python“. Leo’s typical attributes were to this day most
preserved in those areas of the Atlantic Mediterranean prevalence
where reformation and enlightenment never took its root, in Ireland,
Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Moldavia and North Caucasus...)
and in the area of West Balkans. Let us remember the Basque
terrorist organization ETA, Irish IRA, Bosnian terrorist organization
“Young Bosnia“ and our Serbian “Black Hand“.
Let us remember the distress and injustice experienced by
the Herzegovians (Herzegovinian pits in World War II), Poles (the
Katyn massacre, the failure of the Warsaw Uprising caused by lack
of Soviet intervention), Ukrainians (the genocide deliberately caused
by famine in 1932-33 in which millions of the Ukrainians died),
Cherkes (around half a million died in the Russian genocide over the
Cherkes in the middle of the 19th century), hundreds of thousands of
Cossacks whom the West delivered back to the Soviets at the end of
the War, forcing them into immediate death, etc. Throughout their
history, the nations with dominant Canaan genetics have mainly
faced problems regarding their independence: Irish, Basques, Kurds,
Cherkes, Chechens, Moldavians, Ukrainians, Poles, Herzegovians,
etc.
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As if the words of the biblical damnation still echo over their
heads: "Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto
his brethren!" (Genesis 9:25) If there is God, we may wonder
whether His damnation of the Canaaneans had to be that cruel, to
dissuade them from their desire for power and tendency towards
violence.
How does the psychological type of Leo respond to the
misfortunes they come upon?
They are all the more challenge to fight on a wrong level!
They even more fuel their optimism of victory, power and tendency
towards violence. "The difficulties they come upon in the position of
leaders are greater incentives for success" (The Society of the
Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 64).
It may be the reason why such drastic troubles are the only way of
their sobriety, which will help them realize that they are not gods,
but only human. Speaking of God’s treatment of the Canaaneans,
wise Solomon described all the tragedy of their violent and cruel
character:
"For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers
both those old inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou
hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and
wicked sacrifices; and also those merciless murderers of
children, and devourers of man's flesh, and the feasts of
blood, with their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous
crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls
destitute of help... Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as
men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to
destroy them by little and little. Not that thou wast unable to
bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle,
or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one
rough word: But executing thy judgments upon them by little
and little, thou gavest them place of repentance." (Wisdom of
Solomon 12: 2-13)
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GEMINI – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE
NORDIDS
Linda Goodman describes the physical appearance of
Gemini as follows:
"Unless there's a conflicting ascendant, the Gemini build is
generally slender, agile and taller than average. Many of
them have small, sharp features, as if they were cut in a
cameo. You'll find some with brown eyes, of course, but the
majority of those ruled by Mercury will have beautiful,
crystal-clear hazel, blue, green or gray eyes that twinkle and
dart here and there." (Sun Signs, pg 91).
For the overall appearance of people born under the
influence of Mercury (which corresponds to Geminis), astrologer
Aleksandar Imširagić says:
"In general, the nose has a sharp, or even a narrow look. The
Mercurians have tiny or long, slim and fine-drawn mouth
which is sharply-cut, especially in corners. ... The Mercurian
hair is very fine and thin and there isn’t much of it. Its color
is pale or brownish-gray with a tendency to become bright.
... The skin is very fine, delicate and dry. This type rarely
tans successfully." (Aleksandar Imširagić, The Wheel of
Fortune, pg 373-374)
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The astrological description of Gemini corresponds to the
description of the anthropological type of the Nordids:
"Stature is tall and thin. Shoulders are strong and broad, legs
are long. Skull is elongated, flat on both sides, the nape of
the neck is prominent. Face is elongated, facial features are
sharp, jaws are accentuated. Mouth is small and “hard
formed”, ears are tiny. Forehead is tight, flat and leaning
backward; eyebrows are straight. Nose is narrow and
prominent, high at its root. Eyes are light, blue or gray,
medium-sized. Skin is fine and pale, with visible veins. Hair
is blond or redish, thin, smooth and soft." (Vladimir
Dvorniković, Characterology of the Yugoslavs, pg 174)
The parallel between the Gemini type and the Nordids is
apparent not only in comparison of their physical attributes, but also
in comparison of the psychological ones. Astrologers describe
Gemini’s talkativeness and their proneness to sarcastic humor:
"Gemini is talkative and often inconsequential." (Charles
E.O. Carter, Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg
120)
"They use words as much as possible, have a great power of
expressing themselves and are skilful in communication of
every kind. ... They are very skilled in using words and that
become their most powerful self-defense weapon when they
show tactlessness and sarcasm. They often do not save
words, they abuse them, they babble tirelessly... Sometimes
people detest Gemini’s sarcasm and take a defensive stance
towards them.” (The Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia,
Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 40-41, 43)
Antrophologist Hans Günther writes about Nordic
talkativeness and their sense of humor as follows:
"The gift of narrative, with a sense for describing events and
landscape and a tendency to roguish humour, is common in the
Nordic race." (Hans F. K. Günther, The Racial Elements of
European History, pg 52)
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Astrologers claim that Gemini is not interested in sensual
pleasures:
"They say that Geminis are cold-blooded and that their
interest in sex is rather of secondary importance to them."
(The Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology
and Yourselves, pg 44)
Anthropologists say the same about the Nordids:
"He ... develops a characteristic passion for the real, while
passion in the usual meaning of the rousing of the senses or
the heightening of the sexual life has little meaning for him."
(Hans F. K. Günther, The Racial Elements of European
History, pg 51)
Nordids are characterized by selfish and egocentric
materialism, instead of sensuality which leads to fleshly pleasures,
or pride. We can recognize such character all over the area of their
occurrence. Geographical presence of Nordids can be tracked on the
basis of their common genetic markers (HLA-A1, B8, HG-R, etc.).
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We know Nordids as the original carriers of Indo-European
language group such as the Celts, the Illyrians, the Germans, the
Balts, the Slavs and the Indo-Iranians who all easily managed to
impose their language and government to nations of different origin
who were marked by disunity. In fact, people whose pride is not
their main characteristic (Nordids, Mongols, Alpide, Semites) can
easily dominate over those people who are proud (Dinarids,
Mediterranids, etc.), because pride naturally forms tribal relations
and mutual feuds (for proud people are oversensitive and inclined to
conflicts).
Astrologer Nikola Ogrizović says the following about
Gemini’s ability to achieve power of command and rule over other
people: "They can do it, in such a way that is neither tyrannous or
filled with exaggerated vanity." (Astrology, pg 24) Nordids are
characterized by their lack of vanity, and that is why in the
astrological literature we read that "Gemini are more interested in
what they do than what they wear, so that sometimes they appear to
be lax.". Perhaps it seems inexplicable to us to see a German
businessman dressed in a yellow shirt with hundreds of tiny black
Mickey Mice, but he really does not care what we think about him.
The people of Northern Europe, who are mostly of Nordic origin,
believe that bragging and accentuating their own values and
magnitude is an expression of primitivism and backwardness.
Although they are free of pride, the Nordids are selfish. However,
their selfishness is not blind and pointless as it is in their genetic
brothers Finno-Ugric (stingy Virgo) and Mongols (possessive
Cancer), because they are in a great deal characterized by their
preserved common sense. That Nordic trait was described by
astrologer Charles Carter as follows:
"Gemini, though often selfish, is yet adaptable: Mercury is
styled the convertible planet." (An Encyclopedia of
Psychological Astrology, pg 22)
Linda Goodman indicates the following Gemini’s
characteristic:
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"Gemini has little desire to accumulate either money or
knowledge. In each case, he prefers to absorb it, sort it, and
give it back improved. He's the communicator whose
function is to create ever new, original ideas and serve others
through the versatility of his quick, brilliant mental
processes." (Sun Signs, pg 104)
Anthropologist Hans Günther writes about Nordids:
"In accordance with this picture we may take judgment,
truthfulness, and energy to be the qualities which are always
found marking out Nordic man. It is by a certain mastering
of his own nature that he comes by his power of judgment
and keeps it, standing as a free man over against himself, and
still more over against the influence of others. He feels a
strong urge towards truth and justice, and shows, therefore, a
practical attitude, an attitude of weighing, which often makes
him look cool and stiff. He is distinguished by a highly
developed sense of reality, which, in combination with an
energy that may rise to boldness, urges him on to farreaching undertakings." (Hans F. K. Günther, The Racial
Elements of European History, pg 51)
Astrologer Johanna Weinbaum says about Gemini (women):
"Although they are warm and emotional, many find them
heartless. It is so because they mostly rely on intelligence,
not on emotions." (Johanna Weinbaum, The Secret of Sexual
Astrology, pg 18)
Due to their rationality in judging the righteousness of
someone’s idea, the Nordid type, more than any other type, pays
attention to the sense of the idea itself instead of a person who
presents it.
Talking about Gemini, astrologer Johanna Weinbaum
proceeds:
"If you have extreme or fanatic religious and political views,
you will not get along with Gemini very well. They see
everybody's side too clearly. They are liberal and tolerant by
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nature, and narrow-minded people will not get far with
them." (Ibid, pg 18)
The Protestant Reformation, whose call was originally only
aimed towards common sense, instead of human feelings and the
human need to stick to rules as the end in themselves in order to
calm their guilty conscience, was best received exactly in the area
where the Nordic anthropological type was a majority. For the
Nordic type, it is not easy to accept philosophy and religion which
cannot stand the criticism of common sense. To listen to the voice of
reason means to be in conflict with human stupidity and any form of
superstition. Writing about this attribute of the Nordids, which was
also the characteristic of the Medieval Slavs, anthropologist
Vladimir Dvorniković pointed out the following when he described
the occurence of the Bogomils and their psychology:
"The deepest atavistic traits of the Slavic man are exhibited
in bogomilism. ... Firstly, by its genesis, the bogomilism,
both as psyche and as religious-social movement, is
negativism and reaction. A Bogomil foremost felt: what he
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could not do and what he would not do. He did not want any
form of discipline whose meaning he could not grasp and
which was against his deepest inner being." (Vladimir
Dvorniković, Characterology of the Yugoslavs, pg 967)
Talking about the anthropological type that corresponds to
the Nordids, Vacher de Lapouge says:
"From the state he only asks to respect his work; according
to religious choice, he is a protestant, for his independent
spirit cannot accommodate church authority.” (Fransoa de
Fontet, Le Racisme, pg 69)
Astrologer Linda Goodman describes this Nordic feature as
Gemini's feature in the following words:
"As soon as he learns what's being done and how it's being
done, he'll want to know why. The answer, "We've always
done it this way," will cause his bright eyes to turn to ice
cubes that could freeze you at thirty paces. Gemini is not
even slightly interested in or impressed with tradition. When
he's told something is an old custom, that's reason enough for
him to change it. ... He'll seldom be dogmatic either. His
opinions are flexible." (Sun Signs, pg 121-122)
NORDIC COMMON SENSE OPPOSED SELF-DECEPTION
In Orthodox religion and Catholicism, one sort of music is listened
to and chanted in the church, and another outside of it. While the
faithful are in the church, they will listen and chant about gratitude,
but outside of it they will revel in popular and folk music, which are,
by their thanklessness and moaning, a contrast to the chants of
gratitude they listen to in the church. In the Nordic countries of
northern Europe there is no such duality. The same spirit which
inspired a Protestant to chant spiritual hymns of gratitude while
being in the temple also inspired them to chant the same hymns
while walking down a road, spending their time in a pub or while
being at home with their family. When the Protestant people
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became spiritual renegades and with the occurrence of popular
music, it was not long before it moved from the outside world into
the Protestant temples. There is no hypocrisy and self-deception,
for is not known to the Nordic common sense.
When Jovan Cvijić described the character of the so-called central
type, that is, the population of southeast Serbia and Macedonia, he
actually described the character of the Nordic Slavs, who are,
according to contemporary genetic findings, most common with
Greek Macedonians when it comes to the Balkans:
“Realistic features- this is the most prominent trait of the
central type… True representatives of this temperament in
the central type are those who do not speak much, but speak
peremptorily, they simply startle when you ask them about
stories and poems, and in doing so convey that those are all
nonsense and trifles, for it is not ‘real labor’, a true interest
of man… they less often than the Dinarians care to have the
most beautiful and equipped house, to be better dressed than
their compatriots, except the fact that every now and then a
woman succeeds in imposing her own taste; on the contrary,
the rich are often ill-dressed, and sometimes they are even
dressed in rags when at home. Little or no appreciation do
they show for a beautiful and well-decked horse, and, unlike
the Dinarians, they feel no need for a glowing appearance…
In addition to these realistic features, this type of people does
not possess the rough and cruel avarice wee often see in the
East-Balkan type. There is less rudeness in their lives.
Contrary to the geographical position, which would define
the central type as southern and expansive, throughout their
whole mental life they show something reserved and stiff…
It is even harder to make out their true emotions. They are
good at judging people, their traits and passions; but, while
the Dinarians often show their observations, these people do
it rarely. It is hard to gain their trust. But their soul can
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soften and bloom under the influence of the free life they
have been longing for for centuries… There is also a
distinctive affection within them, warm and moving, but
always seeming so confused and naive… They are more
gifted for lyric than epic poems. Epic poems are less
common in their area than in the Dinarian ones. The people
belonging to the central type have a lot of tact and
consideration. Rare are the Yugoslav countries where people
get less insulted by words and take verbal insults more easily
than here. They do not mind other people’s flaws and
weaknesses and often tolerate serious moral flaws when the
‘real labor’ is concerned. They know how to conduct
themselves: they can restrain their emotions and desires, to
change their mind and deliberate on things; overreaction is
so rare; they are almost always considerate and careful. That
is why in this central type there are not much of those
violent, decisive and strong temperaments, those who cannot
put up with injustice. This type can be often found in WestMacedonian and Kosovo-Metohija varieties. The people
belonging to the central type undoubtedly possess cleverness
and easy comprehension. Their senses and spirit are always
alert; they are almost always composed. But their
intelligence is most often directed towards material regards
and personal interest. The people belonging to the central
type get easily adapted to a whole variety of social
surroundings. This definitely has to do with the realistic
features of their soul and quick comprehension of practical
matters; also, perhaps there is no resisting force in them
which comes from the old popular traditions. They
immediately receive any heritage of the material culture and
external signs of civilization… They approve of and adopt
material, moral and spiritual novelties which make life easier
and provide benefits.” (Jovan Cvijić, The Balkan Penninsula
and the Yugoslav Countries, pg 78-81)
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Regardless
of
its
common sense, the Nordic type
is also characterized by the
temptation of selfish and
egocentric
exploitation.
Therefore,
throughout
the
history of the West, the blessing
of its soberness soon started to
transform into the curse of its
hedonism. The politics of the
Nordic West is becoming all the
more exploitative and reckless
towards others. However, one
might reply: “Is there such a thing as non- exploitative politics?”
The reply to this can be found in the politics of the people with a
large number of people belonging to the Dinarian anthropological
type. Serbian politics is a typical example of the politics which is
not exploitative, but implements the policy of pride, spite and
destruction to the disadvantage the existential interests of its people.
Let us remember the most drastic example, when on 27th March
1941 people yelled: “Better grave, than a slave; Better battle, than to
settle!”, among a number of similar examples throughout its history.
Zoran Đinđić wisely said:
“The world is a cruel market. Nobody loves anybody. They
all love themselves only. But let us love ourselves as much
Americans love themselves, and then we will see who is
more successful. Now, since we do not like ourselves much,
and they do love themselves, they are always more
successful. But, are we to blame for not loving ourselves
enough, or is there someone else to blame? We are to blame!
Let us love ourselves, let us see what our potentials are, let
us see who the good people are and put them in good
positions, and use our potentials in the best possible way.”
Of course, the concept of true love for ourselves should be
distinguished from selfish exploitation whose aim is to obtain
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emotional and sensual pleasures by sacrificing the real interests of
humanity, which naturally implies disregard of others. The
contemporary politics of the West is becoming more exploitative
and less considerate, as there is less and less of the spirit of New
Age Enlightenment, which was described in British History of the
Nineteenth Century by the English historian George M. Trevelyan:
“It is right to praise highly the influence of Evangelicalism
on our politics, in days when no other even partially enlight
ened doctrine could get a hearing. Evangelicalism brought
rectitude, unselfishness and humanity into high places, and
into the appeal to public opinion.“ (George Macaulay
Trevelyan, British History of the Nineteenth Century, pg 54)
However, by trying to adapt to the modern age hedonism,
Protestantism soon experienced transformation: towards religious
formalism (which made it close to traditional Catholicism), and
lately also towards sentimental fanaticism (which made it close to
the religions of the East). The temptation of religious formalism is a
temptation typical of the psychological type of Virgo, whereas the
temptation of sentimental fanaticism, which occurs as a false
reformation of religious formalism, is typical of the psychological
type of Cancer. As a reaction to the perversion of Protestantism, the
Nordic common sense rather chooses atheism than a belief in formal
religiousness or Christ swaying in the rhythm of rock music,
advocating the belief that he canceled God’s Ten Commandments
by sacrificing Himself on the Golgotha cross.
In the history of civilization, as well as an individual’s life,
there is no stagnation. If temptations of life do not make us better,
they will certainly make us worse. If we do not use the blessings of
life in order to help others, then their use will be our own source of
doom. If those blessings do not fulfill us with feelings of gratitude
and unselfishness, they will fulfill us with greediness and stinginess.
If we do not defeat temptations at the very moment they emerge,
they will defeat us. One who does not fight temptations with all their
heart, will end up becoming their prey. However, our destiny is in
our hands.
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VIRGO – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF ALPIDS
The psychological type of Virgo is characteristic for the
Alpids. They represent the remains of the ancient natives of the Ice
Age Europe, who still in a great deal populate those areas which
were once covered in ice.
The Finno-Ugric who populate the Baltic and north-eastern
Europe (ex-USSR region) are called the Baltids by anthropologists,
and those who populate the Alps in Central Europe – the Alpids. By
mixing with the Nordids, the Baltids got light hair.
Unlike the Baltids who to a certain degree preserved the
awareness of their Finno-Ugric origin (the Estonians, Finns,
Laponians, Hungarians, etc.), the Alpids forgot their roots, firstly
under the invasion of the Celtic Nordids, and then also under
German and Slavic conquerors. The analysis of Y chromosome,
which can be inherited only by men, reveals that the Baltids, from
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the father’s side, preserved haplogroup N, which is by its genetic
structure closest to the haplogroup O typical for Yellow race in East
Asia. HG-O is also characteristic of Koreans whose language
belongs to the same Uralic language group in which the European
Finno-Ugric also belong.
However, unlike
the Baltids, the Alpids,
from the father’s side,
lost their haplogroup N
and got the Nordic HGR1b, which corresponds
to
their
Celtic
conquerors. Actually,
genetics convinces us
that the hypothesis which states that the Nordic proto-Celts killed
the entire male population of Alpids in Central Europe and took
their women is true.
Both branches of the Finno-Ugric (Alpids and Baltids) have
common genetic markers (HLA-A3, B7, etc.) and very slight
anthropological differences. The Finno-Ugric antigen HLA-B7 in
Europe is most represented among the Laponians (over 37%), in
Ireland (33.6%) Austrians (29.1%), Finns (26.7%), Belgians
(25.5%) and north-western Russians (25.2%). HLA-B7 is the most
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represented HLA-B antigen in Switzerland (23.6%), Slovenia
(23.6%) and Germany (20.2%). Within the area of former
Yugoslavia this antigen is present in 10.65% of the population,
whereof 7.84% in Serbia, and 18.1% in Croatia.
Mixing with different European people (mostly with the
Nordids) made the Alpids similar to the White race by their
appearance at first sight. Nevertheless, the skeletons disclose that
they originated from the Yellow race:
"It seems they have lived in Europe since the end of the
Paleolithic age, but where they came from or whether they
originated in Europe by mixing of some short-headed Asian
group with the Proto-Europeans – we do not know. These
people, at least according to their skeletons, have some
similarities with the Turanids and we do not notice the
features of the Tungids on the living man." (Božo Škerlj,
Man, pg 328).
However, both the
Alpids and the Baltids
maintained many adaptive
psychophysical attributes
which allow them to live in
a polar climate zone. They
are characterized by narrow
and small eyes, strong
blood circulation of the
face, protective layers of
fat, a genetic proneness to
obesity, short extremities, a
broad brachycephal skull, a
round and broad face
without any expressive
trait. There are often circles under the eyes and the layers of fat.
Cheekbones are somewhat prominent. The nose is short, flattened,
pug or straight. The mouth is wide. The teeth gaps are not entirely
close as they are with the other anthropological types in Europe. The
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beard is weak. The hairiness is barely noticeable. They are also
characterized by an instinctive need of making supplies, a fear of
water, easily disgusted, etc.
Astrologers Max Heindel and Augusta Foss Heindel depict
the physical appearance of Virgo: "The complexion sallow ... The
feet are small, the toes turn inwards and give these people a peculiar
labored walk." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message
of the Stars, pg 60). And the anthropologist Božo Škerlj writes about
the representatives of the Yellow race: "Hands and feet are very
small." (Dr Božo Škerlj, A Man, pg 315-317). According to
astrologer Mile Dupor: "Virgo is characterized by a round bony
head, a smooth face..." (Do not believe it, check it, pg 78).
According to astrologer Charles Carter, their " complexion is sallow
and often muddy; " (Charles E.O. Carter, The Principles of
Astrology, pg 161).
According to astrologer Linda Goodman, "The Virgo is
normally a small person" (pg 219). The astrologer Hana Hart says
about Virgo: "You can recognize him by his height because he is
usually the shortest man in a group." (Hana Hart, A man in the palm,
pg 64)
Also, as anthropologist Božo Škerlj stated, "The Alpids are
men of a rather small stature (163-164 cm). ... We can find them in
Central France, all over the Alps, in Czechoslovakia, and also partly
in the western and northern regions of Yugoslavia" (General
Anthropology, pg 69).
The Alpids are mostly represented in the area of the County
of Savoy in France, in Southern Germany (Bavaria), in the areas of
Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatian Zagorje, and here in the region
of Vojvodina (the natives), and partly in north-western part of
Sumadia District. Psychological characteristics of the Alpids are the
result of perversion of their adaptive attributes for a cold climate –
the gathering instinct which, under inner discontent, is transformed
to stinginess. That is why in the entire area of representative of the
Alpine type, from Banat to Bavaria and Savoy, we meet people who
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correspond to the psychological type of Virgo by their excessive
stinginess.
Astrologer Maja Lončarić wrote as follows:
"Virgo jealously keeps their integrity and their apothecary
peace in which they live alone or with their family. Virgo’s
motto is: We do not let anybody in. ...Stingy. They spend
their money cautiously because they are afraid of poverty.
They posses an old-fashioned mentality, impose economic
restrictions in the family, the sense of practical living is
realized to the disadvantage of aesthetics, they are stingy and
their relationship with their parents is conventional." (Maja
Lončarić, Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 40, 54-55)
It is thought that North Germany is more developed than
South Germany because its residents would rather invest the capital
they earned into further production, while Bavarians would rather
put the money aside. Germans from the North still tell jokes that
mock the selfish character of their compatriots from the South, as
well as their racism and rigidity* (Fusnota: What happens when a
blonde moves from Berlin to Bavaria? – There’s a collective rise in
IQs in both areas!) of thinking. Bavarian boy and girl save money in
order to go to seaside together, but since she did not earn enough
money, he spends his summer holiday without her. They have
dozens of recipes on how to use bread which is hard as a stone
because it is ten days old. They are prone to stinginess on
unimportant things to disadvantage of their bodily comfort, and even
their health. They take care of their health, but not so much out of
love for health itself, as much as out of fear of disease. Awareness
of personal property is extremely developed, and there are some
recorded cases of murders committed because of picking fruit from
the branches hanging over the fences, as well as court cases that
lasted for decades (like, for example, one case about a rooster in
Macva, which lasted for three decades). The selfish envy towards
rich people was a basis for their efforts to carry out social reforms
through Nazism in Central Europe and communism in the East.
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The next attribute of the Alpids comes as a result of their
reduced hormonal activity which makes them enjoy the feeling of
"virgin” purity before their own conscience more than weakly
expressed emotional and sensual pleasures. Their tendency to enjoy
purity of conscience leads them to a hypocritical suppression of their
weaknesses into the subconsciousness (which is already a
temptation that most elderly people find hard to resist), and such a
suppression creates specific authoritarian and "Gestapo-like"
symptoms in their psyche.
The whole region of Central Europe is characterized by a natural
product of hypocrisy originating under the influence of guilt –
proneness to racism. The greatest percentage of Nazi war criminals
came exactly from that area. In the same geographical area today we
still meet false moralizing and contempt towards dirty, morally unfit
and uncivil people, which is a result of projection and transfer of
own unacknowledged moral impurity to others.
There is a well-known example from Slovenia, when the
people of Ambrus (near Ljubljana), out of "ecological and safety"
reasons, exiled 35 Gypsies to the woods in 2006 and prohibited
them from returning. The result of the poll designed by local TV
station POP soon after the affair, showed that 42% of respondents
supported the decision of the Slovenian government not to allow
Gypsies’ return to the town of Ambrus after their placement into the
Center for Foreigners. Gypsies were looked down upon for being
filthy, uncivilized and incapable of respecting the legal system.
Through this act of exile, the Alpid type revealed its true Nazi
nature. Let us observe the similarity with an astrological description
of Virgo’s temptation. According to an advice of the astrologer
Johanna Weinbaum, where she explains how to break up a
relationship with Virgo, we find a list of temptations that the Alpid
type is not able to resist, which clearly demonstrates why they have
a scornful attitude towards Gypsies themselves:
"Avoid taking baths. Dress sloppy. Put down your cigarettes
in a coffee cup. Let your home look like you actually live
there. Be late for meetings as often as you can. Use vulgar
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words as much as possible. Take Virgo to a topless club or
treat them for a porno movie. Be compassionate. Question
every decision of theirs or make a decision without
consulting them. Share your obscene jokes with them in
front of others. Gamble ruthlessly." (Johanna Weinbaum,
The Secret of Sexual Astrology, pg 34)
The character of the Alpids corresponds to the astrological
description of Virgo’s character:
"The sign is a very discriminative and critical one that is not
at all easily satisfied. It is fastidious, dislikes being touched,
and has a deep-rooted fear of infection." (Vivian E. Robson,
Astrology and Sex, pg 35)
Astrologer Mile Dupor talks of Virgo’s character in the same
manner as if he talks of a representative of the Alpids:
"Virgos reason coldly, they are skeptical about issues with
no solid proofs. Reserved, cold feelings, unwilling to express
them, they suffer and keep quiet, they put up with injustice,
accept the worst jobs without protesting. Their appearance:
restrained posture, cold diplomatic charm, cold probing
glance, resigned facial expression, thin voice that sounds
clerkly malicious. Private. Distrustful. They work hard like
dogs, they are clean, tidy, scanty, practical. ... They are
unjust towards themselves, they live to work, to them, a
method is more important than a result, they make a job
harder to themselves, complicate things to satisfy
regulations, do not fully enjoy all their rights, but accept all
their duties. ...They hate dirt, vulgarity, inconsiderate
behavior, unconventional clothing and pose, and even a
careless way of speaking.” (Do not believe it, check it, pg 7879)
"They may be chronic fault-finders, cantankerous,
prejudiced, and narrow in their views, with the result that
they are unpopular with those who misunderstand their
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natures." (Charles E. O. Carter, The Principles of Astrology,
pg 73)
Astrologers also notice this authoritarian, subordinate mentality in
Virgos:
"They make excellent secretaries, or subordinates of any
kind, but do not often assume control, dislike responsibility
on a large scale, and shrink from the limelight and selfadvertisement; in fact, they are often shy and retiring,
making few friends, being particular about whom they meet
socially." (Charles E. O. Carter, The Principles of Astrology,
pg 73)
Anthropologist Branimir Maleš discloses such a character as
the feature of the Alpids:
"They do not like to lead, and besides, they are not able to,
but they are satisfied when they can subjugate themselves to
a leader." (Branimir Maleš, On Human Races, pg 38)
Astrologer Mile Dupor believes that “the Croatian among all
nations is the most similar” to Virgo by the character traits (Mile
Dupor, Do not believe it, check it, pg 81). And, speaking of the
Alpids of Croatian Zagorje, Jovan Cvijić says:
“They are very diligent, sober and persistent as workers. ...
But these peasants have a repulsive spirit, a spirit of division
and subordination. ... They are often suspicious. ...
Highlanders think that only the authorities and aristocracy
should be dealing with public affairs: they are more
competent than peasants, they say; the nobility should give
orders, husbands should obey; there would be no discipline
without aristocracy. ... This population is obedient,
disciplined and fully submissive to its superiors.” (Jovan
Cvijić, The Balkan Peninsula and the Yugoslav Countries,
pg 165)
Virgo’s personality is also depicted by Vacher de Lapouge
through his description of the Alpids in France:
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“Homo Alpinus. This type is shorter in stature, medium to
dark in skin-, eye-, and hair-color, and has round head and
round face. It is typified by the Turk and the Auvergnat,
predominates in France, Switzerland, North Italy, Southern
Germany, Poland, Austria, the Balkans, and farther east. ...
Psychologically it is frugal, cautious and industrious; gifted
with common sense (le bon sens), and attached to tradition.
It absorbs rather than creates ideas ; though industrious, it
works slowly and without intensity. ... Homo Alpinus knows
only the timid defensive solidarity of the flock of sheep
where each seeks to hide himself behind his neighbor. The
Alpine has for generations been "the perfect slave, the ideal
serf, the model subject, and, in republics such as ours, the
citizen most highly praised because he tolerates every
abuse." It varies little and hence produces few geniuses. It is
Catholic in religion, dependent on state action in politics,
opposed to individual excellence and superiority, worships
mediocrity, and is fearful of progress. Its foresight does not
extend beyond the immediate needs of self and family, while
problems of statecraft are beyond its powers. It was Homo
Europceus which accounted for the civilizations of the
Greeks, Romans, and Western Europe. It has for many
centuries been the dominating race, and even to-day, when
pure types are very rare because of the mixture of blond and
brunet, those individuals who play the most mportant roles in
society greatly resemble the master race of other days.”
(Frank H. Hankins, The Racial Basis of Civilization, pg 107108)
Old Romans originally represented a mixture of the Nordids
of Proto-Celtic origin and the Alpids who came down the Alps to
the Apennine Peninsula and mixed with the Mediterranean and
Dinarid natives. While the Romans were politically dominant,
besides a certain Nordic soberness that corresponds to Gemini, they
also had authoritarian spirit of the Alpids, which corresponds to the
psychological type of Virgo. The practical Roman ethical
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philosophy imbued with stoicism, then the military spirit of rigid
discipline, and, in the beginning, very conservative and formalistic
nature of the Roman law, reveal distinctive elements of the Alpid
psychological type. Latin, which of all the Indo-European languages
is the most similar to Celtic, had a totally different quality, melody
and rhythm in comparison to the modern-day Italian.
In the meantime, the Alpids were suppressed by the
influence of other nations, although even today they are present to a
certain extent in the area of Central Italy. The anthropologist Bertil
Lundman in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe writes:
"Centralna Italija je mešavina mediteranaca i alpida sa nordidima i
drugim strujama" (Bertil Lundman). The Celts of Central Europe
took the Alpids with them to many other regions of their expansion.
One of the mixtures between Nordid and Alpids, under the entity of
the Gauls in the classical period, settled the central area of Asia
Minor. One epistle of Apostle Paul in the New Testament refers to
them. If we take a closer look, we will recognize that it refers
exactly to the Alpids. Apostle Paul criticizes their temptation – a
typical Alpid’s tendency to , under the burden of guilt, atone before
their conscience by holding certain principles and religious
traditions.
Perhaps it seems incomprehensible to us that the Virgo type
which corresponds to Alpids is prone to religion, because
astrologers say for Virgos that they are skeptical towards everything
that cannot be proved by science. Like most members of the Yellow
race, the Alpids also have more dominant left side of the brain,
which is responsible for noticing details, determination, analytical
thinking, etc. The right side of the brain is less active, probably due
to their adaptation to a cold climate in order not to endanger their
own survival, taking interest in activities that are not useful in severe
living conditions. Namely, while the left side of the brain is more
responsible for mere survival, the right one is responsible for
imagination, integrity, universality and different creative abilities
which are best expressed in reaching a higher meaning of life, which
also includes religion.
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There from the Alpids are confused and frightened by
everything that overcomes their sensual experience and demands a
philosophical thinking about the general meaning and background of
what they see. They are capable of exact verification, understanding
and practical application of a scientific discovery, but are not
capable of arriving to the discovery itself, because that would mean
that they would need to activate their power of imagination. Alpids
are confused when they read biographies of those scientists who
made large contributions to science, for they expect to read about
them diligently collecting information and making analyses,
processes and calculations, so that they can finally get to the
discovery they so much sought. Nevertheless, they surprisingly read
how the discoveries came to them ’out of the blue’, how they prayed
to God in the lab (Louis Pasteur), how the discoveries came to them
in form of visions (Nikola Tesla), and they needed their left
hemisphere of the brain only to scientifically verify, define and
practically apply the discoveries. For this very reason an Alpid has
difficulty distinguishing between a scientific truth – verifiable by
experiment, and a scientific hypothesis – verifiable by an analysis of
its meaning. Existence of several different scientific hypothesis
drives them mad because such a stress forces them to take the
responsibility of thinking about each one and making a judgment
about their correctness or incorrectness based on the analysis of their
meanings. They would be very happy to declare one hypothesis a
dogma, to forbid all others and to break off all further discussions.
So, instead of reason, the Alpids like to use dogmas, because they
free them from the need to think. It is all the same if these dogmas
are religious or scientific. If they are not the people who blindly
believe in the dogma of infallibility of the Pope, they will probably
blindly believe in the dogma of evolution, equating a hypothesis and
empirically verifiable scientific truths. The cause of their rigid
thinking does not lie in mere domination of the left hemisphere of
the brain itself, but in lack of healthy driving motives.
If we are stimulated by love, love itself will be our
inspiration to set in motion all those areas of brain activities which
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we need to successfully answer demands of life and its higher
nonexistential purpose. But, if one is moved by bad motives
(guiltiness, pride, selfishness, sensuality), the one will become a
victim of either formalism and nitpicking of the left side of the
brain, or a victim of imagination and abstraction of the right side.
While the ’imaginary’ types tend to escape reality and enter their
own imaginary world, the ’exact’ types of Virgo tend to confine
themselves by immediate sensual experiences and respond with a
paranoid fear when confronting circumstances which require them
to take over the responsibility to think for themselves and to
understand the background and deeper meaning of what they see.
Instead of thinking for themselves, they tend to embrace rules and
authorities which will think for them instead.
Since they are troubled by guilt, Alpids are prevented from
seriously reconsidering the meaning of their behavior, and using the
freedom of mind and reason to elevate themselves above restrictions
of their senses and into the world of imagination, philosophy and
religion.
The Alpids are known for a mechanistic understanding of
religion which becomes obvious in their interpretation of
Catholicism, where God is represented as some kind of a machine
that after a sufficient number of regurgitated or read out prayers,
answers by giving His blessings automatically. The Alpid turns their
extremely pragmatic spirit into trade with God, either through Papal
indulgences, good deeds, or through some personal sacrifice, for
which they are convinced it can make God less angry and
unmerciful. Actually, the Alpids attribute the pressure of their own
unclean conscience to God, turning His justice into cruelty, and their
hypocritical contempt towards the spiritually incapable and filthy
into God’s animosity towards heretics and sinners. Guilt results in a
hypocritical repentance. Human weakness is only inhibited in its
expressing instead of being defeated. They might truly believe in
Christ’s sacrifice on the cross as Catholics, but since the real
atonement does not happen, the unclean conscience remains, so they
try to redeem themselves alone, endlessly making up new rules and
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duties. They do not understand God’s Law as an elevated criterion, a
definition of essential motives, a model which destroys human selfcomplacency in order to make a sinner feel disappointment with
themselves and therefore raise their voice towards the Heavens, but
they comprehend it as formal rules whose fulfillment ensures their
redemption and satisfaction. They keep God’s Law formally and
blindly, without understanding that love is the fulfillment of the Law
and that God’s Commandments exist for people’s sake, not vice
versa. Apostle Paul condemned such incorrect function of God’s
Law in his epistle to the Alpids from Asia Minor – i. e. to the Gauls:
"But that in the law no man is justified with God, it is manifest:
because the just man liveth by faith. ... For if righteousness come by
the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Christ is become of no effect
unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law: you are fallen
from grace." (Galatians 3:11; 2:21; 5:4). Living in accordance with
God's Law is the consequence of belief in Christ’s justification and
liberation, not the cause of justification. The purpose of God’s Law
is not our redemption through its fulfillment, but raising awareness
of our need for God’s redemption and absolution from sin. Apostle
Paul says that the Law was given "that sin by the commandment
might become exceeding sinful" (Romans 7:13). When a person is
motivated by unselfish love, that person acts spontaneously in
accordance with God’s Law. "For all the law is fulfilled in one
word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"
(Galatians 5:14)
This criticism which was directed at the Gauls by Apostle
Paul will become the fundamental criticism of Catholicism by the
Protestant Reformation. In fact, throughout the entire Middle Ages
the Alpine type of Italy and Central Europe was revealing its
religious formalism and authoritarianism through Catholicism.
The spirit of Catholic religion can be clearly recognized in
the astrological description of Virgo:
"Virgo: a sense of order and neatness, a sense of practical
life, critical spirit, sadomasochism... pays to much attention
to form, easily gets angry and severely criticizes everyone
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and everything, boring, dogmatic. Because of its dullness
and sarcasm, this sign does not enjoy the best reputation. It
sticks its nose into everything, looks for a needle in the
haystack, ... criticizes everyone and everything, has narrowminded views. Virgo’s temper is pessimistic, receptive to
destructive impulses, but prone to perfectionism. Virgos
never let emotions take them over, everything has to be
based on logic, and they want to keep their lives in order.
There from all the coldness, pedantry, conservatism,
moralism..., an old-fashioned mentality. Human warmth is
lacking. They are pedantic, tidy, accurate, cynical, overly
sensitive. Virgos underestimate everyone, including
themselves” (Maja Lončarić, Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 16,
24, 26, 40).
Talking of the Alpids, anthropologist Branimir Maleš
discloses their conservatism:
"They leave foolhardiness and enterprise to others. They are
sensitive, diligent and they do not like to change their
environment and habits" (Branimir Maleš, On Human Races,
pg 38).
In his book The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of
Capitalism, German philosopher Max Weber outlined an example of
such a conservative spirit, which is especially pronounced in
Catholic female workers:
"The type of backward traditional form of labour is to-day
very often exemplified by women workers, especially
unmarried ones. An almost universal complaint of employers
of girls, for instance German girls, is that they are almost
entirely unable and unwilling to give up methods of work
inherited or once learned in favour of more efficient ones, to
adapt themselves to new methods, to learn and to concentrate
their intelligence, or even to use it at all. Explanations of the
possibility of making work easier, above all more profitable
to themselves, generally encounter a complete lack of
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understanding. Increases of piece-rates are without avail
against the stone wall of habit." (pg 62)
Further in his work, Max Weber explained how a spirit of
pietism (puritan Protestantism) helped overcome such a rigid and
conservative spirit:
"In general it is otherwise, and that is a point of no little
importance from our view-point, only with girls having a
specifically religious, especially a Pietistic, background."
(Max Weber, The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of
Capitalism, pg 62).
Catholicism provoked the feeling of endangerment in people,
it burdened them with guilt and a fear of doom in eternal suffering,
and alongside the paranoid fear of heretics which formed strong
authoritarian mechanisms of thought and behavior, especially in the
Alpids of Central Europe and the Semits in Spain.. In that way,
Catholicism kept entire nations in submissiveness. The Protestant
Reformation freed human psyche from the feelings of endangerment
and fear. It liberated peoples’ conscience from guilt and therefore
from the hypocritical suppression of character weaknesses. It
liberated their minds from the restraints of uniform thinking and led
them to think responsibly with their own head, and to on their own
evaluate the meaning and righteousness of theirs and others’ faith.
This kind of spirit sobered up those Alpids who adopted the
principles of Protestantism, which led to a dramatic increase in their
productivity.
According to anthropologist Charleston Coon, the German
town Baden is located in the north-west boundary of the Alpine
world. At the end of the 19th century, its population was mainly
Catholic - 61,3%, while the Protestants constituted about one-third 31%. However, schoolchildren who attended classes above primary
school in which attendance was not compulsory, were mainly
protestant - 69%, while the Catholics constituted only 37%. Also, in
1895 in Baden the collection of capital value tax showed the
following figures: tax amounted to 589,000 DEM per every
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thousand of the Catholics, while it amounted to 954,060 DEM per
every thousand of the Protestants.
"Catholics and Protestants differed from each other in their polemical
approach to Islam. Whereas Protestants believed that the translation of
the Qur'an was the best way for discrediting Islam, since, according to
their opinion, it would inevitably lead toward the conclusion that this holy
book was unlogical and untruthful, Catholics were more prone to a
repressive approach and they were forbidding the printing of the Qur'an or
its fragments even for the polemical purposes." (Frantiek Sistek, The
Czech Notions and the Stereotypes of the Turks, The Almanac 21-22,
Podgorica, 2003, pg 295)
After World War I, the economic crisis initiated the feeling
of endangerment among the Alpids in Central Europe, which led to
a repeated escalation of their authoritarianism, this time in the form
of Nazism, and in an analogous form of Stalinism among the people
of USSR, which was a manifestation of the authoritarianism of
Baltids and Mongols. Nazi motto "Order, Work and Discipline"
actually represents the most concise definition of the psyche of the
Virgo sign and therefore a definition of the anthropological type of
Alpids. Speaking of authoritarian personality principles,
psychologist Žarko Trebješanin seemed to have described the Virgo
psychological type, i.e. the Alpid type:
“This type of personality, which equally well manages to
survive both under the dictatorships of Fascism and
Bolshevism, besides other mentioned traits, is also
characterized by the following qualities, attitudes, and
character features: adornment of their leader, slavish loyalty
to authorities and a simultaneous hatred towards everything
that is cast out, helpless and unsuitable (class enemies,
domestic traitors, and all marginal social groups), then a
strong inhibition of sexuality and spontaneity, suppressed
pathological aggression and hatred, ... sadism towards those
who are lower in the hierarchy, rigid thinking, fostering the
cult of order, martial hierarchy and strict discipline,
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supporting a rigorous penal policy." (Žarko Trebješanin,
Soul and Policy, pg 121-122)” (Lazar Marićević, Selfrespect and Authoritarianism, pg 55)
Inhibited sexual desire among the Alpids is a consequence of
their lack of sex hormones, which makes them receptive for
burdening with guilt and easy suppression of their sex drives. The
ancient skeletons of Alpids reveal reduced sexual characteristics.
Astrologer Mile Dupor says that Virgo is a frigid and sterile sign.
Linda Goodman writes: "The basic Virginian instinct is chastity, and
he's turned from it only for a good cause." (Sun Signs, pg 229). In
the book The Secret of Sexual Astrology by Johanna Weinbaum we
read: "Most singles were born under this sign. Virgo male is too
much of a perfectionist in his job to have time to deal with love...
He is loyal, so you should not worry that he will cheat on you. For
him fidelity is not just a word. However, as it is with many who brag
about their high morality, his morality simply comes from an
absence of lust." (Johanna Weinbaum, The Secret of Sexual
Astrology, pg 32)
The lack of male sex hormone among the Alpids is
manifested through their temptation of indifference towards
philosophical and political questions, as well as through the
authoritarian proneness to shifting their own responsibility relating
to these issues to someone else. Astrologer Linda Goodman brings
out the absence of abstract intelligence in Virgo: "The typical Virgo
is at his best as the power behind the throne, the one who
dependably carries through the original ideas of others" (Ibid, pg
247). The lack of female sex hormones is shown through the
absence of hospitality and Alpid’s temptation of indifference
towards children. As such, their relation towards them is mostly cold
and superficial, quite formal and deprived of closeness; it is founded
on rules of behavior, not on the recognition of children’s true
spiritual and physical needs. Astrologer Linda Goodman
acknowledges weakly-expressed maternity in Virgo with the
following words: "Virgo women seldom have more than one or two
children, and don't seem to need motherhood to satisfy their
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femininity." (pg 241). Linda Goodman confirms the emotional
deficiency of a mother-Virgo towards her child as follows: "She may
not supply his emotional needs as easily, but if she's sure of your
love and knows she's appreciated, she'll relax and give her offspring
plenty of warm affection." (pg 241). Astrologer Vivian Robson
openly states: "As a parent Virgo is not specially successful. The
dry, matter-of-fact, critical and faddy or fussy manner is not
calculated to win the heart of a child very readily, and as a rule there
is no very deep love of children." (Vivian E. Robson, Astrology and
Sex, pg 36) The lack of both sex hormones results in barely
pronounced emotional and abstract intelligence in Alpids, which in
everyday life can be recognized in their diligent workman mentality
and the capability for paying attention to details in a job to an extent
which no other anthropological type does (they can be very good
watchmakers, etc.), but without any creativity that leads to new
inventions and solutions. Astrologers say: "Virgos like practical and
productive jobs, they are excellent craftsmen/manufacturers,
especially in food, they are medical workers, hygienists..." (The
Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet Astrology and
Yourselves, pg 77) "Its keynote may be said to be practical
mentality, or the brain applied to concrete matters. ... The abilities
are great for all work requiring good mental powers,
conscientiousness, and attention to detail; ... They usually possess
skill in manual craftsmanship, and either for a livelihood or a hobby
cultivate such things as carving, metal-work, clock-making, or
engineering. ... Gardening also generally attracts them, and another
characteristic is the marked interest in matters pertaining to health,
diet, and hygiene. They may be doctors or physical culturists, and at
times degenerate into valetudinarians." (Charles E.O. Carter, The
Principles of Astrology, pg 73)
Contrary to the Semites* (Fusnota: Their unwillingness to
stand for the needs of those they are close to, and their lack of
interest in general issues make a certain number of Semites quite
close to Alpids. The abuse of sensual experiences to satisfy inner
discontent naturally leads to degeneration of both male and female
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types of intelligence, especially if a person gives in to these sensual
temptations during incomplete psychophysical development. The
people who abuse male and female types of intelligence will
develop their intelligence despite the abuse, but the sensual type will
weaken it due to neglect.), whose uncontrollable character turns
their richness of interests and broadness of intelligence into
damnation of unrestrained and often destructive impulses that rule
upon their will, Alpids make very high quality products due to their
modesty and simplicity:
"The general efficiency of the sign leads its native to assume
that no one else can do anything so well, so neatly, and so
methodically as himself, and he is therefore reluctant to
deputize work to others, and if forced to do so insists on
interfering with detailed instructions as to the exact methods
to be employed." (Vivian E. Robson, Astrology and Sex, pg
36-37)
But, their good and pedantic work, "unburdened” with
abstract male thinking about a higher meaning of the work itself,
and also “unburdened” with the emotional empathy of those who
need the results of that work very much, leads the Alpids into
temptation to take work as the end in itself and to completely
neglect its products, making them useless. If their hearts were
motivated by a true unselfish love, then Alpids would understand
that there is a need in life to activate both male and female types of
intelligence, but without love they are not stimulated to recognize
such a need and to put their abilities in motion.
The absence of female emotional and male abstract
intelligence became most obvious in Nazi and even in communist
architecture, both of which are considered to be cold and sterile
(Adolf Hitler took ancient Roman architecture as a model for nazi
architecture). Astrologer Maja Lončarić writes about Virgo:
"Virgo’s practical nature is being realized to the
disadvantage of aesthetics." (Astrology – Stars Talk, pg 56)
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Astrologer Charles Carter says about Virgo’s handwriting:
"Virgo often affects archaic formations and abbreviations,
and is sometimes crabbed." (Charles, E.O. Carter,
Encyclopedia of Psychological Astrology, pg 91)
An expressive use of coinage is exactly the characteristic of
the German language, and a tendency for using abbreviations was
revealed as a special characteristic of Alpids during nazism, as well
as a special characteristic of their Baltic brothers during Stalinism.
Professor Victor Klemperer, a Jew who successfully avoided
deportation in nazi Germany due to his marriage with an Aryan
women, in his diary published under the title ”LTI – The Language
of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook”, described a
degradation of German language under the influence of Nazi
ideology. He said the following about the use of abbreviations:
"If I now ask myself, whether and why an abbreviation has
to be classified among pronounced attributes of LTI, the
answer is obvious. None of the previous language styles used
these forms so tirelessly as the German language of Hitler's
time did. Modern abbreviations occur in places where
technology and organization are highly developed. And
Nazism, according to its pretensions towards totality, imbues
absolutely everything with technology and organization.
Therefrom come huge quantities of its abbreviations. This is
so because it also tries to conquer the whole inner life, led by
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the very same pretensions to totality." (Victor Klemperer,
The Truth About Nazi Language, pg 116-117)
In George Orwell’s novel 1984 we find an explanation of the
phenomenon of abbreviations in terms of the psychology that
undoubtedly corresponds to the Alpids:
"Countless other words such as honour, justice, morality,
internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had
simply ceased to exist. A few blanket words covered them,
and, in covering them, abolished them. ...
The name of every organization, or body of people, or
doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was
invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single
easily pronounced word with the smallest number of
syllables that would preserve the original derivation. In the
Ministry of Truth, for example, the Records Department, in
which Winston Smith worked, was called Recdep, the
Fiction Department was called Ficdep, the Teleprogrammes
Department was called Teledep, and so on. This was not
done solely with the object of saving time. Even in the early
decades of the twentieth century, telescoped words and
phrases had been one of the characteristic features of
political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency
to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in
totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations.
Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern,
Inprecorr, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been
adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used
with a conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus
abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its
meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would
otherwise cling to it. The words Communist International,
for instance, call up a composite picture of universal human
brotherhood, red flags, barricades, Karl Marx, and the Paris
Commune. The word Comintern, on the other hand, suggests
merely a tightly-knit organization and a well-defined body of
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doctrine. It refers to something almost as easily recognized,
and as limited in purpose, as a chair or a table. Comintern is
a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought,
whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one
is obliged to linger at least momentarily. ...
And this was exactly what was aimed at. The intention was
to make speech, and especially speech on any subject not
ideologically neutral, as nearly as possible independent of
consciousness. For the purposes of everyday life it was no
doubt necessary, or sometimes necessary, to reflect before
speaking, but a Party member called upon to make a political
or ethical judgement should be able to spray forth the correct
opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth
bullets. ...
Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of
choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately
it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx
without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim
was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak,
meaning ’to quack like a duck’." (George Orwell, Nineteen
eighty-four, pg 308, 310-311)
The tendency towards coinage and abbreviations in speech implies
degradation of speech to an utterly pragmatic purpose of clear and
simple communication, to the disadvantage of the artistic beauty of
a language, which reveals lack of contents to be conveyed in
communication by the beauty of words.
Such a mentality, void of sentimentality and abstraction,
shows a perfect mentality of a soldier, who without question or
second thought obeys the commands of his superiors. The secret of
the great success of the Roman legions and Nazi soldiers in World
War II probably has some common causes.
Due to reduced level of sex hormones, the Alpids are
characterized by the temptation of melancholic temper, which – if
not defeated by a mature reaction of will, forms the character of
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Virgo, unlike their close brothers, Mongols, who due to the
enhanced level of female hormones are characterized by their
temptation of phlegmatic temper, which forms the character of
Cancer if it is not defeated. A sanguine character corresponds to a
relatively balanced temper of Gemini (Nordids), while a choleric
temper matches enhanced male hormones in Aries (Dinarids), Leo
(Atlanto-Mediterranids) and Sagittarius (Cro-Magnon and NiloSaharians).
Regardless of natural temptations which come from our
hormonal balance or imbalance, if we are driven by unselfish
kindness, we will recognize the real needs of life and because of our
abilities which definitely exceed our bare existential needs, we will
be able to contribute to their fulfillment. The problem of absence of
healthy motivation is greater than a natural psychophysical lack of
talent for a certain occupation.
Although by nature deprived of pronounced emotional and
abstract intelligence, an Alpid can be a successful parent and a
politically responsible citizen, if he/she is driven by the motive of
unselfish kindness. High emotional and abstract intelligence in other
populations only gives a minor practical contribution to family and
society, for they become abused for personal satisfaction in most \
cases, to the detriment of the real needs of family and society.
The very nations which are known to possess the liveliest
temperament, quickest metabolism and the greatest physical abilities
for work show the greatest laziness, not living up to their potential,
while those who are slowest and physically least developed show
the most diligent, conscientious and meticulous working character.
Due to lack of high emotional and abstract intelligence, the
Alpid type is free of many temptations which are typical of other
populations, but they have a temptation to enjoy the feeling of their
own self-righteousness instead, alongside its “Gestapo-like” side
effects.
It is very easy for Alpids to be “virginally” moral when they
barely have other sources of satisfaction at their disposal, except
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their own moral correctness. Still, what they do not have in their
own nature, they can find in their surroundings. Even a naturally
cold person can enjoy their feelings if they are provoked by external
triggers, by alcohol or by the abuse of music. Consumption of tasty
food (especially sweets), besides sensual pleasure, induces pleasant
sensations which can also be abused in order to suffocate the
awareness of inner emptiness. It means that external factors can play
a significant role in suppression or arousal of different mechanisms
in the same people. A peaceful life in economic welfare and great
stress, created by imperilment of Alpids’ awareness of personal
property, can cause various reactions of the one and the same human
nature, and activate its different mechanisms. While the Great
Depression after World War I represented a temptation for the Alpid
type in Germany and Austria to escalate authoritarianism through
Nazism, the economic revival after World War II brought a partial
transformation of the Alpid character towards their close genetic
brothers who will be the subject of our next chapter. If those who
are emotionally cold try to compensate for their absence of love by
provoking feelings instead of changing the motives and the
character traits that are hidden behind these feelings, they fall into
temptation which is typical for a description of Cancer.
CANCER – THE MONGOLIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
TYPE
In the astrological description of Cancer’s physical
appearance given by astrologer A. Imširagić, we read that Cancer is
characterized by "small, deeply set eyes" which "can be leaned
downward in outer corners" and "a flattish, round face". Nose is
"low, flattish and undistinguished", and sometimes "delicate and
snub as in a child". Hands are "little" and palms are "short" (A.
Imširagić, The Wheel of Destiny, pg 369-372). According to
astrologer M. Dupor, Cancer has "watery eyes" (Astromedicine, pg
30) and "cat-like look" (Do not believe it, check it out, pg 70).
Charles Carter says for Cancer´s eyes: "The eyes are commonly
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small and deep." (Charles Carter, The principles of Astrology, pg
165) According to astrologer Linda Goodman, Cancer is
characterized by: "A round face, ... babyface looks. ... A pretty big
skull, raised eyebrows and high cheekbones. The lower jaw is also
prominent. Eyes are small and the distance between the eyes is
usually very big, shoulders are more broad than average" (134-135).
By the authority of The Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia,
Cancer can be described as follows: "A shorter stature, a bit fleshy,
corpulent figure, the upper-body part is bigger than the lower one, a
round chubby face, usually accentuated or even protruding forehead
around temples, a pale complexion, small, often lit eyes and a short,
slightly snub nose" (The Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet
Astrology and Yourselves, pg 53).
All of the above mentioned attributes of Cancer correspond
to the description of the Yellow race, as describes by
anthropologists:
"The main features of this big racial group are: a flat nose on
a pretty broad face, protuberant cheekbones and unprominent
chin, rough, bristly hair, dark complexion, yellowish color of
the skin and so called Mongolian eyes" (Branimir Maleš, On
Human Races, pg 22).
"Mongols (so called Yellow race) have yellowish-brown
skin pigmentation, weak facial and body hair, straight, harsh,
black or dark brown hair, broad constitution, big head, nose
that is weakly prominent, facial bones strongly prominent,
and a gap between their eyebrows is placed at an angle (so
called Mongolian fold)." (An Encyclopedia of the
Lexicographic Institute, Tome V, pg 392)
In Yellow race, which corresponds to Cancer, we can also
include one branch of the Finno-Ugric – the Baltids (the Eastern
Europids), which, since being mixed a great deal with the Mongols
and the Nordids in the area of East Europe, embraced some of their
psychological and physical attributes. Anthropologist Branimir
Maleš delineates them as follows:
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"Sizable bones, a short,
stocky stature (165 cm) and
a
light
complexion
distinguish them from other
races. Torso is long and
limbs are proportionally
short. Shoulders are broad.
Constitution is digestive.
Skin is more pale than
pinkish-white. Gray or
grayish-blue eyes appear to
be somewhat watery. Gap
between eyelids is pretty
narrow, which makes the
eyes look small. Sometimes
a semi-mongolian form of the eyelids can also be found.
Distance between the eyes is big. Face is broad, pretty flat
and, due to developed and protuberant cheekbones, appears
to be rough and rectangular. Nose is fleshy, flat and short. Its
lower part is snub. The Eastern Europids are characterized
by a round head and face, as well as by dark blonde hair.”
(Branimir Maleš, On Human Races, pg 26-27)
Besides a general congruence of the look of Cancer and the
look of the representatives of the Yellow race, there is also a parallel
with their proneness towards obesity, which is an adaptive attribute
of survival of the Yellow race in cold climate conditions.
Astrologer Charles Carter writes about Cancer’s obesity:
"Cancer and Pisces are often flabbily fat." (Charles, E.O.
Carter, An Encyclopedia of the Psychological Astrology, pg
135)
Anthropologist Arthur de Gobineau writes about the Yellow
race:
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"A tendency to obesity is not precisely a specific feature, but
it is more often met with among the yellow races than among
any others. ... In muscular vigor ... they are greatly inferior to
the black." (Arthur Gobineau, The Moral and Intellectual
Diversity of Races, pg 449)
Adaptation to the polar climate can be seen in their strong
attachment to their house as a source of protection against external
frost. In relation to Cancer, astrologers say:
"Cancers consider the value of home as the first condition of
happiness and the place they can always hide in before life’s
misfortunes, like a child on a mother’s lap, or like an animal
hiding under its shield when it senses danger." (Maja
Lončarić, Astrology – The Stars Talk, pg 36)
Another adaptive attribute of the Yellow race for the cold
(polar) climate is their psychological need to make reserves, which
enables them to timely collect food reserved for the period of
poverty. In its perversion, that instinct is manifested through the
need for gathering, possessing and keeping unnecessary things,
through buying things only in order to have them instead of using
them, etc.
The astrologers recognize this inclination as one of Cancer’s
characteristics:
"They like to collect things." (Nikola Ogrizović, Astrology,
pg 6)
"He's always piling up tangibles against some imaginary
future disaster... They have this little habit of saving things...
Cancerians seldom collect cash for status. They collect it for
its own sweet sake... Saving will be substantially more
attractive to him than spending." (Linda Goodman, pg 139,
157, 145)
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According to astrologers, the planetary ruler of Cancer is the Moon. Consequently, astrologers
conclude that the reason why some people are “roundish” (with a stocky figure and round head) is that
they were influenced by the Moon – which is round, and not due to the adaptation to the cold climate
conditions, which requires a reduced body surface for decreasing body heat and moisture loss. Based
on personal experience, astrologers noticed that persons with “roundish” figure also have short stature
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and a possessive disposition, which certainly cannot be associated with the shape of the Moon, but
with another Yellow race’s adaptive attributes for the polar climate. However, astrologers also
assigned love of water to those who were born under the influence of the Moon. They did not come to
that conclusion on the basis of experience, but on the basis of logic of astrological superstition: they
found that there was a correlation between the Moon which attracted water (the phenomenon of tide),
and the persons born under its influence, who were thus supposed to love all the activities related to
water (swimming, diving). Still, those people who are adapted to the polar climate due to their round
head and stocky figure have a genetically inborn fear to get into water, because in polar conditions it
can cause death by instant freezing. Hence, the authenticity of astrological guessing lies only in their
reliance on real anthropological experience, which recognizes the characteristics that are inherited
together within the same type of people, and not in their reliance on the constellation shape or on the
looks of the celestial body under which someone was born.
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Possessiveness can be targeted not only towards things, but
also towards living beings:
"Cancer will never relinquish a treasured object, and that can
range all the way from a beloved friend or relative to a title
or a position-from an old tintype photo to a pair of frazzled
house slippers, with the soles half worn away. His moods are
the meanest when he's the most afraid of losing something.
Maybe it's you. Reassure him you're his a thousand and one
times. ... She's not so much jealous as possessive. ... Worry
and apprehension can make him ill... Often, he fears
financial collapse or the loss of someone he needs
emotionally. If his security is threatened, either at the bank
or in his heart, he can fall into a depression which
unconsciously courts sickness or accident." (Linda
Goodman, pg 136, 140, 144, 157)
"The love of home and possessions turns into greed, a
grasping nature, an inability to let go of desire to cherish and
protect others. It is self-sacrificing, and seeks little in return
for the affection it pours out upon others." (Vivian E.
Robson, Astrology and Sex, pg 32)
The Mongols revealed their possessiveness to the maximum
stages during the plundering campaigns, while during the periods of
peace and welfare that characteristic was directed towards living
beings, especially those who by their nature aroused pleasant
feelings (small children, animals). Proneness to sentimentality is the
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consequence of female hormones surplus in Mongols. Astrologers
think that Cancer is characterized by pronounced feminine attributes
even in its male sex:
“There's a strong maternal instinct in both sexes. Cancerians
are all mothers at heart. Even the men. Cancer rules
motherhood.. Your male Cancer employee loves babies,
children, women. He's sensitive, responsive to kindness,
responsible and extremely capable.“ (Linda Goodman, Sun
Signs, pg 141, 149, 158, 177, 144).
"Man stays closely attached to his mother during his whole
life, he gladly withdraws into the past, frightened of the
future. The presence of a woman is of an essential
significance to him, no matter whether she is his mother,
sister, wife or girlfriend. That is why among Cancers there
are so many henpecked husbands who are under their wives
influence.” (Maja Lončarić, Astrology – The Stars Talk, pg
37)
Anthropologists noticed that the Yellow race had the very
same characteristic:
"Alpids, for instance, are closer to eurosomatic and feminine
vector, while Mediterranids and Atlantids are closer to
leptosomatic and masculine vector. So it is theoretically
possible for every sub-race or type to have masculinity or
femininity and a leptosomatic or an eurosomatic vector as a
“racial mark”. The Yellow race is, in general, more
eurosomatic and "feminine" than the Blacks. For example,
among representatives of the Yellow race, Paleo-Mongoloids
are more feminine and eurosomatic than Sinids." (Božo
Škerlj, A General Anthropology, pg 89)
As today’s Russians are a mixture of Nordic Slavs and
aboriginals with Finno-Ugric origin and later Mongolian invaders, it
is quite normal to assume that femininity could also be a trait of
their mentality. In various writings of Russian authors and
philosophers we read the following acknowledgment:
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"Sometimes they say that Russian populace has the feminine
nature." (Nikolai Lossky, Phenomenology of Russian Soul,
pg 50)
"The Russian people does not want to be a masculine
builder, its nature defines itself as feminine, passive and
submissive in matters of state, it always awaits a
bridegroom, a man, a ruler. Russia -- is a land submissive
and feminine. The passive, the receptive femininity in regard
to the state power -- is so characteristic for both the Russian
people and for Russian history.
There are no limits to the humble endurance of the muchsuffering Russian people. The state ruling authority always
was an external, and not an inward principle for the nonstatist Russian people; it was not created by it, but the rather
came as it were from the outside, like a bridegroom to the
bride.
The Russian people has always loved to live in the warmth
of the collective, a sort of dissolving back into the element of
earth, into the bosom of the mother. Knightly chivalry forges
a sense of personal worth and honour, it creates the
tempering of the person. This personal tempering has not
been created over the span of Russian history. In Russian
man there is a softness, in the Russian face there is no
sharply distinct profile. Tolstoy's Platon Karataev -- is
rounded in features. Russian anarchism -- is feminine, and
not masculine, is passive, not active. The Russian nonstatism -- is not a conquering of freedom for oneself, but the
rather a surrendering of oneself, a freedom from activity.
The Russian people desires to be of the earth, like a bride
awaiting a man." (Nikolai Berdyaev, "Sud'ba Rossii" ["The
Fate of Russia"], -- Moscow, G. A. Leman and C. I.
Sakharov, 1918, 240 p)
As we can observe, the word here is about a population with
expressive feminine attributes, which falls into the temptation to
shift responsibility for its own viewpoints and behavior to the
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authority of a man, which is in this case represented by a state
authority. Renunciation of responsibility and an authoritarian
tendency that induce peoples of the East to make someone else think
and decide instead of themselves, maybe was best depicted by
Nikolai Berdyaev, who compared the characters of Russians and
Germans:
"A German feels that Germany will not save him, that he
must save Germany. A Russian thinks that it is not he who
will save Russia, but Russia will save him. A Russian man
never feels like an organizer. He is used to being organized
by others. Even in this terrible war (The First World War),
when the Russian country is in a danger, it is hard to make a
Russian man be aware of that danger, to arouse his sense of
responsibility for his fatherland's destiny, or to provoke an
effort of energy." (Nikolai Berdyaev, On the Predominance
of Space Over a Russian Soul, Phenomenology of Russian
Soul, pg 25-26)
Renunciation of responsibility and its shift towards a higher
authority were revealed even through an authoritarian relation of a
Russian national towards bad weather conditions:
"Subservience of Russian peasant during XVIII and XIX
century, demonstrated during bad weather and thunder, is
especially surprising. Bolotov mentions a widespread belief
that 'a tree splintered by a thunder should not be use for any
purpose, and a house ignited by a thunder should not be put
out'. Dalj also notices the following psychological
arguments: 'Putting out God's fire is a sin'. ... They do not put
out the fire but they go around it with icons they place in
corners. ... That docility was apparently so strong that Dalj
noticed a paradox in their relationship to fire protection
devices: 'To keep fire protection devices in proper operating
condition - means to tempt God.'" (Leonid Milov, "Natural
Climate Factor in the Mentality of the Russian Peasantry" Phenomenology of Russian Soul, pg 149-150)
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Unlike blood type A, typical for the Finno-Ugric and the Nordids,
blood type B is typical for the Mongols
The examples of indifference of the people of the East
towards authoritarian and often senseless acts of their rulers are
astonishing. Turkmenistan’s ex-president - Saparmurat Atayevich
Niyazov (February 19, 1940 – December 21, 2006) was famous by
his tendency to force his personal eccentricities to the entire
Turkmen nation. He called himself "Turkmenbashi", which meant
"the Father of All Turkmen". He also changed the name of the town
of Krasnovodsk into Turkmenbashi. He did the same with several
schools, airports, and even with one passing meteorite, all of which
he changed to his name and the names of his closest family
members. He renamed January after his official name as well –
Turkmenbashi. Both the Turkmen words for bread - “chorek” and
the month of April were in changed in 2002, to the name of his late
mother, Gurbansoltanedzhe. Statues of himself and his mother are
located throughout Turkmenistan. A great number of alcoholic
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drinks, some brands of tea and
some food products carried labels
with his portrait. Except the streets
that bore his name, all other streets
were marked with numbers. His
statement: “I'm personally against
seeing my pictures and statues in
the streets - but that's what the
people want” is well known.
Foreigners were forbidden to
appear in public after 11pm. He
pronounced “The Melon Day” as a
national holiday. When forced to
quit smoking due to a heart
operation in 1997, he forbade
smoking in all public places by a decree. By another decree, he
banned news anchors from wearing makeup, with a mindless excuse
that he found it hard to differentiate between men and women. He
banned youngsters from wearing golden teeth, advising them to
nibble on bones as much as possible in order to preserve the health
of their teeth. He also banned key copying, karaoke, etc. He brought
out a decree which obliged doctors to take an oath to Saparmurat
Niyazov, instead of taking the Hypocrite's Oath. He re-defined age
limits, so that people were considered juvenile until they were 25,
youth was limited to the age of 37, and old age was beginning in 85.
The authoritarian spirit of the people of the East results in
absence of political responsibility, and their cowardly submission to
someone who is, at a certain moment, at a higher position of social
power. A well-known Russian thinker Vladimir Solovyov (1853 1900) wrote about the mentality of the East:
"In the East, political struggle could only be an accidental
phenomenon, because of the mental make-up and the world
view of the peoples living there. Oriental man, a quietist and
fatalist by nature and conviction, interested chiefly in the
eternal and unchangeable aspect of existence, is incapable of
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standing on his rights and stubbornly fighting for his private
interests. He who is strong has the right, and it is madness to
oppose the strong. Oriental potentates may rival each other
and struggle against each other, but this struggle is of short
duration and does not change the general situation. The issue
is decided at the first sign that one side has superior strength,
and the subjects hasten to subordinate themselves to the
stronger side, seeing in it an instrument of fate or of the
higher will. Hence the frequent change of despotic regimes,
with the despotism itself remaining unaltered." (Sergej
Utechin, Russian political thought, 170-171)
We should notice a parallel between the descriptions of the
authoritarianism of the people of the East given above, and the
astrological description of Cancer’s character:
"Cancers easily come under somebody else’s influence; they
give in excessively and are adaptable against their own will.
Since they give in excessively, they change their mood in
accordance with the weather and the Moon, thus their
character is just a summary of experiences. They know the
instinct of the masses and they will be the first to run away
when it comes to danger, yielding, "let it be as you wish",
adaptable to various circumstances and people. Towards
older people, they are obedient or rather subordinated and
willing to accept suggestions. They fulfill their social duties,
but they are not that reliable when in danger. Verbally, they
promise everything, but when comes to owning up to it, they
change their minds because they succumb to suggestions,
feeling an obligation to a general cause. Virtues: they respect
older people. Faults: under pressure, they have the same
beliefs as the majority, prejudices, traditions, "let it be".
Advice: children should be raised to make decisions on their
own, to withstand external influences and to endure any
danger. Cancer is Cancer; they follow the masses." (M.
Dupor, Do not believe it, check it out, pg 70-72)
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"They are susceptible to influence of others, as well as to
prejudices and sentimentality. They quickly assume the
characteristics of those with whom they are close to, or
depend a lot upon the opinion of their environment." (Vesna
Bantić, Stars and Health, pg 28)
We will find out why the representatives of the Yellow race
are prone to falling under the influence of other people, if we notice
the peculiarity of their feelings. Astrologers describe the Cancer
psychological type as follows:
"Many moods... changing emotions. The Cancerian remains
the same person through all his fluctuating highs and lows...
Do you know someone who sometimes cackles wildly, then
weeps despondently... His active imagination can be morbid
enough to turn a minor illness into a grave or chronic one.
Patriotic to the core. The Cancerian loves his home with a
respect bordering on reverence." (Linda Goodman, pg 132138)
Anthropologists describe the psychological type of Yellow
race by the same attributes:
"The Easteuropid race differs from the Alpine race in the
psychological sense. A spiritual life of the Easteuropid is
unbalanced, he is uneasy in his feelings. In one moment he is
deeply happy, but in another he is fanatically enthusiastic or
even wild. His imagination is endless. His feelings are
permeated with certain mysticism. His love for his native
inhabitant is strong. There is a need for being guided, and
also for expression of his spiritual moods." (B. Maleš, On
Human Races, pg 37)
Although in times of welfare, the emotional warmth of a
person of the East is often being wrongly defined as love, as during
stressful times it discloses its true face and shows that in effect it is
not love, but a sentimental weakness. Unlike true love, which is
characterized by stability on all occasions, selfish sentimentality
leads people from fanatic exaltedness to deep depression, depending
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on their momentary experience of reality. To avoid falling into
depression, representatives of Yellow race constantly try to imitate
pleasant feelings, regardless of whether they correspond to reality or
not. There from, we can often see a smile on their face even when
the current situation does not warrant smiling. Astrologer Linda
Goodman writes: "In his life-of-the-party mood, you'll have no
trouble finding the Cancerian. He'll be the funniest one in the room,
a laugh a minute... Lunar humor runs deep." (Sun Signs, pg 133)
According to astrologer Charles Carter, Cancer is characterized by
"kindly and sympathetic smile" (Charles Carter, The principles of
Astrology, pg 165). According to anthropologists "a smile" is a
typical feature of the Yellow race: "A mute smiling grimace of the
Mongol of Central Asia, will not only be the result of the upbringing
in an environment and culture which are strange and distant to us –
as many may think. That distinctive grin we can see not only see in
Central Asian Mongol people, but also in Chinese, Japanese,
Kalmyks and Kavkazian Mongoloids." (Vladimir Dvorniković.
Characterology of the Yugoslavs, pg 180). By astrologer Linda
Goodman’s comment, we can notice that their smile actually
represents a defense mechanism: "His fears are usually well covered
by the nutty lunar humor, but they are always with him, haunting his
days and nights with a vague sense of nameless dangers, lurking in
the shadows." (Sun Signs, pg 133)
In order to avoid a confrontation with reality, the
psychological type of Cancer, i.e. a typical Yellow race
representative, uses psychological tricks and personal defense
mechanisms (rationalization, renunciation, principle of reverse
behavior), which frequently have the form of religion. In the book
"Meditation", written by an eastern guru Sri Chinmoy, we see an
example of such a mechanism:
"We will consciously serve each person precisely because
we know and feel that God is inside him. If we do not see
God, truth, or light in our action, then our physical mind may
not be convinced of the value of the things that we are doing.
Today we will serve someone and tomorrow we will say,
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"Oh, he is such a fool! He has no aspiration, no good
qualities! Why should I serve him?" ... Right now you have
boundless love for your child. But after you have meditated
for a few years, you will have even more love for your child,
because you will feel the presence of God inside him. Right
now you do not feel the presence of God inside your child all
the time. If he is naughty or if he breaks something, then you
do not think that God is operating inside him. At that time
you are exasperated and you say, "No, no, this is not God;
this is the devil incarnate." But there will come a time when
you will see God inside your son all the time, no matter what
he does or what he says." (Sri Chinmoy, Meditation, pg 199, 142)
Since we are not able to love themselves and other people as
they really are (often very sinful and guilty) by our selfish love, we
try to justify these people and create images of them in his mind so
that they do not represent a temptation for our undefeated character
weaknesses. However, by avoiding negative thoughts and feelings,
we do not remove the evil from our hearts, but only the motives for
its manifestation.
Due to its own immaturity and fear of facing the feelings that
correspond to reality, such a character forms insincere relations
among people and pretended friendships. Russian philosopher
Nikolai Lossky writes:
"Kindness of a Russian man sometimes induces him to lie
not wishing to offend his collocutor, due to a wish for peace,
good relationships with people at every cost." (Nikolai
Lossky, Phenomenology of Russian Soul, pg 55)
Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky also writes about the
same weakness of Russian people:
"The vast majority of our lies are told for the sake of
sociability. One wants to produce an aesthetic impression on
the listener, to make him feel good, and so people lie, even
sacrificing themselves to the listener, to the listener, so to
say." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writer's Diary: 1873-1876, pg 269)
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The Easterners do not only have immature relationships with
other people, but also towards themselves. This is noticeable in their
inability to face responsibility for their actions, because the feeling
of guilt spoils their feelings and disturbs their false sense of peace:
"What is the real reason for unrest, agitation and lack of
peace in society? lt is because of our bad thoughts. ... Never
call yourself a sinner born in sin, bred in sin and engaged in
sin." (Sathya Sai Baba, A Compendium of the Teachings of
Sri Sathya Sai Baba, pg 59, 552)
By creating feelings that are not in sync with reality, an
Easterner runs away from reality into their own imaginary world,
afraid of the voice of their own conscience and of stressing
circumstances which threaten their artificial peace.
"These are two characteristics that are of great importance,
one being the fear of ridicule, and the other the hatred of
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criticism, both of which, and especially the latter, deeply
affect married life. ... The only way to get on with an
undeveloped or afflicted Cancer type is to praise and flatter
him on every possible occasion and never by any chance to
say a word that could be twisted into the semblance of blame
or criticism. ... A chance word of criticism will entail hours
of work on the part of Cancer to worry or cajole the
unfortunate critic into a recantation." (Vivian E. Robson,
Astrology and Sex, pg 32-33)
Such a fear of a criticism is the foundation of the Easterners’
totalitarianism, because in order to preserve their artificial peace,
they seek ideological and political protection in a totalitarian
regime. They seek ideological (or religious) protection because of
their conscience, and political one because of external security from
those that would bring an unwelcome expose of their delusions.
They calm their conscience by excuses which cannot stand the
criticism of common sense, and that is why they need to put them in
a form of ideological and cultural values, which environment would
be a blasphemy to call into question. A powerful political authority
serves to protect them from “enemies” that disturb the peace of their
lulled conscience by a rational unmasking of their misconceptions.
Due to selfish dependence on feelings, an Easterner is not
ready to face injustice, to call it by its real name and to confront it.
Instead, the Easterner shows the weaknesses of treachery and
cowardice under pressure from unjust authority. In his book "The
Races of Man", anthropologist Joseph Deniker says that Asian
people are characterized by "dissimulation, hypocrisy, and perfidy"
(pg 400).
Let us try to understand how a representative of such
mentality might be easily led into evil, just because of their
unconquered cowardice. It is thought that between 10 and 20
million people lost their lives under Stalin’s dictatorship. In the
paranoid atmosphere of his dictatorship, an innocent man could be
proclaimed as a dissident and deported to Siberia out of the most
senseless reasons. It also happens that his wife might have kept her
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job without any serious problems with the authorities. Her
colleagues, friends and relatives knew her husband was innocent,
and since they are very conscientious, they felt the need to rise up in
defense of the unjustly sentenced. But, because they were scared,
they did not have the strength to confront the injustice. Their
cowardice led them to a difficult conflict with their conscience.
Finally, in order to relieve their tension, they did their best to assure
themselves that the innocent man was not innocent after all, that the
authorities knew what they are doing, that they were not called to
investigate the case, etc. But, the delusion of their unclean
conscience would not stop at that point.
To suffocate awareness of their sin, they began to
pathologically hate the person they had considered for innocent until
recently. Since they did not have any reasonable arguments, the
hatred and absurdness of a deranged mind were the only argument
they still had against the unjustly sentenced. Soon, the dissident’s
wife started being harassed at work, she experienced contempt from
her friends and relatives, and suffered more under the hands of her
former friends and colleagues, than of Stalin’s tyrannical regime
itself.
People who are not prone to hatred, who are quiet and fearful
by the nature, can become filled with paranoid doubt or pathological
hatred, only to calm the voice of their conscience which reminds
them that they wronged somebody, due to their decision to sacrifice
the principles of honesty and justice out of cowardice. As much as
they are blind for the evil of those who are on higher positions of
power than themselves, that much they have the need to imagine
evil in those who are on lower hierarchical level than them, because
of their own unclean conscience.
About the zodiacal sign of Cancer, astrologers say:
"The crab has a multitude of fears, both real and imaginary. They
form a complicated network of nagging self-doubts and feelings of
inadequacy, which authority and leadership will ease the way
novocaine dulls pain." (Linda Goodman, pg 173)
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In the book "The Gulag Archipelago" written by Russian
dissident Aleksandar Solzhenitsyn, we read that in times of Stalin’s
dictatorship, fear and doubt filled all spheres of private and social
life. A handshake in a street would be a risk to your life if the next
day a person you shook hands with was declared an enemy of the
state. And why would they be accused? Because they might have
praised American technology, or because they turned off the radio in
their room while it was broadcasting endless songs about Stalin. "If
a young girl sent into the fields to get a few ears of grain took along
two friends for company (“an organized gang”) or some twelveyear-old youngsters went after cucumbers or apples, they were liable
to get twenty years in camp." (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag
Archipelago I, pg 79).
A great number of foreigners from different countries,
enthusiastic about the idea of Soviet Communism, came to USSR
just to be accused of espionage and then vanished into thin air.
Many Russian prisoners shared the same destiny when they came
home from German concentration camps soon after the Second
World War ended. Another impeding circumstance was if they had
been set free from these camps by Allied troops, instead of Soviet
ones.
"Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, the
KVZhD, were one and all arrested as Japanese spies,
including the wives, children, and grandmothers." (Ibid, pg
66).
"Six geologists, (the Kotovich group) were sentenced to ten
years under 58-7 'for intentionally concealing reserves of tin
ore in underground sites in anticipation of the arrival of the
Germans´. In other words, they had failed to find the
deposits." (Ibid, pg 64) They were all sentenced to ten years
in prison.
A plumber turned off the loudspeaker in his room every time
the endless letters to Stalin were being read. (Every day for
hours on the radio). His next-door neighbor denounced him.
He got 'Socially Dangerous Element'; eight years. "An
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electrician had a high-tension line break in his sector:
Twenty Years."
"A student's denunciation that a certain lecturer in a higher
educational institution kept citing Lenin and Marx frequently
but Stalin not at all was all that was needed for the lecturer
not to show up for lectures any more." (Ibid, pg 67)
There was a notion of "wrecker" for those sacrificial lambs
who were to blame for all failures and omissions of Soviet
authorities.
"The Sentinel of the Revolution narrowed its eyes with even
greater vigilance — and wherever it directed its narrowed
gaze it immediately discovered a nest of wreckers. This
therapy continued full speed from 1927 on, and immediately
exposed to the proletariat all the causes of our economic
failures and shortages. There was wrecking in the People's
Commissariat of Railroads — that was why it was hard to
get aboard a train, why there were interruptions in supplies.
There was wrecking in the Moscow Electric Power System
— and interruptions in power. There was wrecking in the oil
industry — hence the shortage of kerosene. There was
wrecking in textiles — hence nothing for a workingman to
wear. In the coal industry there was colossal wrecking-hence
no heat! In the metallurgy, defence, machinery, shipbuilding,
chemical, mining, gold and platinum industries, in irrigation,
everywhere there were pus-filled boils of wrecking! Enemies
with slide rules were on all sides. The GPU puffed and
panted in its efforts to grab off and drag off the "wreckers".
In the capitals and in the provinces, GPU collegiums and
proletarian courts kept hard at work, sifting through this
viscous sewage, and every day the workers gasped to learn
(and sometimes they didn't learn) from the papers of new
vile deeds." (Ibid, pg 45)
"Nikolai Karlovich von Meck, of the People's Commissariat
of Railroads, pretended to be terribly devoted to the
development of the new economy, and would hold forth for
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hours on end about the economic problems involved in the
construction of socialism, and he loved to give advice. One
such pernicious piece of advice was to increase the size of
freight trains and not worry about heavier than average
loads. The GPU exposed von Meck, and he was shot: his
objective had been to wear out rails and roadbeds, freight
cars and locomotives, so as to leave the Republic without
railroads in case of foreign military intervention! When, not
long afterward, the new People's Commissar of Railroads,
Comrade Kaganovich, ordered that the average loads should
be increased, and even doubled and tripled them (and for this
discovery received the Order of Lenin along with others of
our leaders) -- the malicious engineers who protested became
known as limiters. They raised the outcry that this was too
much, and would result in the breakdown of the rolling
stock, and they were rightly shot for their lack of faith in the
possibilities of socialist transport." (Ibid, pg 46)
"Therefore, before the court verdict, the workers and
employees wrathfully voted for the death penalty for the
scoundrels on trial. And by the time of the Promparty trial,
there were universal meetings and demonstrations (including
even schoolchildren). It was the newspaper march of
millions, and the roar rose outside the windows of the
courtroom: "Death! Death! Death!" ... So far as we know, the
gray-mustached working class approved these executions. So
far as we know, from the blazing Komsomols right up to the
Party leaders and the legendary army commanders, the entire
vanguard waxed unanimous in approving these executions.
Famous revolutionaries, theoreticians, and prophets, seven
years before their own inglorious destruction, welcomed the
roar of the crowd, not guessing then their own time stood on
the threshold, that soon their own names would be dragged
down in that roar of "Scum!" "Filth!"" (Ibid, pg 48-49)
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We can see how dangerous it can be to deceive ourselves
and to proclaim the power, which represents sentimental weakness
and cowardice, as love. Nikolai Berdyaev rightfully concludes:
"And the most deeply innate sin of Slavophilism was in this,
that they mistook the natural-historical features of the
Russian element to be Christian virtues." (Nikolai Berdyaev,
The Soul of Russia)
The sentimental weakness and cowardice were wrongly
interpreted as love and meekness:
"They wanted to believe, that in the Russian people lives an
all-humanity Christian spirit, and they exalted the Russian
people for its humility." (Nikolai Berdyaev, The Soul of
Russia)
Based on incomprehension of the difference between real
love and sentimental weakness, it was wrongly concluded that
Russian people have Christ in their hearts:
"We hear that the Russian People know the Gospels poorly
and that they do not know the fundamental principles of our
faith. That's true, of course, but they do know Christ and they
have borne Him in their hearts from time immemorial."
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writer's Diary: 1873-1876, pg 164)
Russian philosopher Vladimir Kantor writes about how that
famous “Russian love” disclosed itself as its exact opposite, exactly
at the moment when it was supposed to show its strength through
courage, dignity, steadiness, principle and self-sacrifice in times of
Stalin’s dictatorship:
"Indeed, the writer (Dostoyevsky) eagerly wants to believe
that people hold Christ in their hearts, that they will save
themselves and Russia. Nevertheless, post-reform "rave", as
we know, turned to a terrible and destructive revolution. And
what about Christ? They killed each other even without
praying. And it turned out that Christ alone - without
Christian norms, is not enough, that a habit and a moral life
are necessary. But there was no moral life." (Vladimir
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Kantor, "'Karamazovism' as the Symbol of Russian
Whirlwind", Phenomenology of Russian Soul, pg 235)
Russian writer Maxim Gorky describes how that Russian
good-heartedness transformed into a great evil, even before the
Soviet rule:
"Let us recall how, in Kiev, Kishinev, and other cities, the
good- natured Russian people drove nails into the skulls of
Jews; how, in 1906, the workers of Ivanovo-Voznesensk
boiled their comrades in cauldrons of scalding water,
throwing them in alive; how sadistically gaolers tortured
prisoners; how the Black Hundreds tore apart the young
female revolutionaries, driving stakes into their sexual
organs; let us recall, for a moment, all the bloody shameless
deeds of 1906, 1907, 1908.
People who had shouted so boastfully and disgustingly that
Russia had risen "to liberate Europe from the fetters of a
false civilization through the spirit of the true culture" —
these people, probably sincere and therefore all the more
unfortunate, buttoned their overly eloquent lips in haste and
embarrassment.
"The spirit of the true culture" turned out to be the stench
stench of every kind of ignorance, detestable egotism, rotten
laziness and slovenliness. In a country lavishly endowed
with natural wealth and talent, complete anarchy in all
spheres of culture has surfaced as a result of the country's
spiritual destitution." (Maxim Gorky, New Life, No 3, April
21; No 1, April 18; year 1917. pg 13)
All those atrocities committed in totalitarian countries by the
reigning elite would not be possible if the majority of people did not
agree to them by their approval, maybe due to their indifference, but
often by their cowardice as well.
Even after Stalin, when the atrocities of his dictatorship had
become known to the whole world, Russian people did not show any
awareness of the need for self-criticism and repentance. They did
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not even feel the need to put their worst perpetrators to trial.
Concerning the fact, Aleksandar Solzhenitsyn wrote in 1980:
"Yes, so-and-so many millions did get mowed down -- but
no one was to blame for it. And if someone pipes up: "What
about those who..." the answer comes from all sides,
reproachfully and amicably at first: "What are you talking
about, comrade! Why open old wounds?"
In that same period, by 1966, eighty-six thousand Nazi
criminals had been convicted in West Germany. ... And
during the same period, in our own country (according to the
reports of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court)
about ten men have been convicted.
Here is a riddle not for us comtemporaries to figure out:
Why is Germany allowed to punish its evildoers and Russia
is not? What kind of disastrous path lies ahead of us if we do
not have the chance to purge ourselves of that putrefaction
rotting inside our body? What, then, can Russia teach the
world?
In the German trials an astonishing phenomenon takes place
from time to time. The defendent clasps his head in his
hands, refuses to make any defense, and from then on asks
no concessions from the court. He says that the presentation
of his crimes, revived and once again confronting him, has
filled him with revulsion and he no longer wants to live.
That is the ultimate height a trial can attain: when evil is so
utterly condemned that even the criminal is revolted by it.
A country which has condemned evil 86,000 times from the
rostrum of a court and irrevocably condemned it in literature
and among its young people, year by year, step by step, is
purged of it.
What are we to do? Someday our descendants will describe
our several generations as generations of driveling donothings. First we submissively allowed them to massacre us
by the millions, and then with devoted concern we tended
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the murderers in their prosperous old age." (Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, pg 139-140)
Unlike the anthropological types with expressive masculine
attributes (the Dinarids, Atlantic Mediterranids and Cro-Magnons)
who, due to their pride, arrogance and desire for power, have the
temptation of inability to bear injustice committed by authorities
meekly, humbly and without hatred, the anthropological types with
expressive feminine attributes (the Yellow race), have the
temptation to commit injustice to others under pressure of
unrighteous authorities, due to their selfishness and cowardice.
MODERN WEST UNDER THE MARK OF ANCIENT EAST
According to astrologers, America is in the zodiacal sign of
Cancer. Studying the early history of America, we can hardly
recognize the Cancer attributes in an average American. As the
cradle of western democracy and liberty, America is imbued with
the spirit of rationality and earthly pragmatism, and that is why it
can hardly be represented by the image of a pathetic Cancer or a
typical Easterner who lives in his imaginary world, in conflict with
the voice of reason, and under the authority of a totalitarian ruler.
Nevertheless, if we analyze the rushing tendency of America in the
last century and a half, and especially in the last few decades, and if
we analyze the basic psychological elements of an average
American today, we will be able to firmly declare its degradation
towards the Cancer zodiacal sign or, frankly speaking, towards the
psychological type of an Easterner. To our even greater regret,
America is only the predecessor of degradation of the entire Western
civilization.
The reasons behind this transformation of the Western
civilization towards the East are neither astrological nor mystical,
but very simple and logical. Conceited over fruits of the Age of
Enlightenment – the great industrial, scientific and social prosperity,
the Western civilization in the meantime discarded the fundamental
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principles of Enlightenment and became addicted to the allures of
hedonism. In the interim, the outcomes of hedonism, which can be
best seen in Americans, have already shown the primary attributes
of Cancer or of the East, which we are going to analyze now.
Let us remind ourselves of the smile that the Easterners have
on their face in every situation, no matter whether that smile
corresponds to reality of life or not. Is such a smile not also a
characteristic of the modern culture of the West, especially of
America?
Let us remind ourselves of the story of the great Russian
love that has feelings, but does not present the deeds, exactly when
it needs to show by these needs that it is true love. Is such love not
the feature of modern, so called Evangelical Protestantism in the
West, which preaches Christ’s love, and at the same time thinks that
God’s Commandments were repelled on the Cross and as such
became not obligatory?
Let us remind ourselves of the Easterner who believes that
the notions of sin and guilt are the cause of troubles among people.
Was it not the same fear of facing the responsibility for their own
motives and actions that made Westerners eliminate the notions of
sin and guilt from their vocabulary?
Did the idea of “disturbing the public”, by which the Eastern
people justify abolition of freedom of thought and speech, not
resurrect in the West with, a threatening all undesirable critics by
accusations of "hate speech"?
Let us remind ourselves of Easterners who are not able to
love people as they really are, and rather than repenting for their
lack of love, they justify and idealize people in their mind in order to
become able to love them selfishly. Isn’t such a "love" the
characteristic of an average American, who does not fight against
racism towards Blacks by repenting for the absence of love, but
rather by convincing himself that there are no differences in
intelligence and character temptations between various human
races?
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Intoxication with alcohol or meditation, euphemisms and taboos of
untouchability, blindness to injustice and over-sensitiveness to
justice, liberalism towards sin and totalitarianism towards a sinner,
outrageous interference by a state in the private life of every person
which destroys human dignity and establishes its totalitarianism ...
aren’t they becoming equally strong temptations for both today’s
East and West?
PISCES – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIXTURE OF
EASTERN MEDITERRANIDS AND PALEO-MONGOLOIDS
According to the traditional astrological opinion, the planet
Jupiter reigns both over Sagittarius and Pisces: “Jupiter vlada
Strelcem i Ribama, pokrenut vodom” (pg 48). However, after the
planet Neptune had been found, the astrologers decided to
pronounce it as the ruler of Pisces. The astrological description of
the psyche of Sagittarius and Pisces reveals in both types the
predominant role of the right hemisphere of the brain, which is
responsible for apprehension of space, the big picture, imagination,
creativity and many others, mainly artistic abilities. The attributes of
the newly discovered “ruler” of Pisces – the planet Neptune, point
out the psychological specifics differentiate between the Pisces type
and the Sagittarius type:
"It is the planet of the creative imagination, ranging
downwards from the inspirations of the great poets and
artists to the terrible and diseased fancies of the criminal and
mentally afflicted. It is the planet of pretence and deception,
including self-deception; it has a general tendency to make
things appear Other than they are, whence its relation to the
stage and the films." (Charles E. O. Carter, The Principles of
Astrology, pg 57)
The sign that represents Pisces may refer to people who are
reminiscent of fish by their anthropological appearance, and are as
such called by them. It may also refer to people whose occupation is
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fishing. By the zodiacal sign of Pisces, as we will see shortly,
astrologers “cover” both the anthropological populations which are
in some cases mixed between themselves into a particular
anthropological type.
Dagon, half man, half fish, was the supreme god of the
ancient Philistines. "Dag" in Semitic languages means "fish". The
Philistines (today’s Palestinians) represent one branch of the
Pelasgians, the ancient inhabitants of Greece, which experienced
exodus from Crete to Hannan, which they named “Palestine”,
around XII century BC.
“The Pelasgians are the Pre-Hellenic inhabitants of Greece.
... A part of Pelasgian population, during the migration of
people living by the seas,, arrived to the area of today’s
Palestine (which got its name by them).” (Alemko Gluhak,
Croatian Etymology Dictionary, pg 26)
“In the oldest history of (Palestinian) countries the most
important role was played by the Philistines, in the Egyptian
sources called Pelishtim (or Plishtim), where the name of the
whole country – Palestine - arose from. They emerged there
with the culture of Aegean character.” (Jirzi Neustupny, The
Prehistory of Mankind, pg 132)
The Pelasgians belong to the bearers of the ancient Minoan
culture, and anthropologically they belong to a branch of
Mediterranids, which we will call “Eastern Mediterranids” who
share with Dinarids the common haplogroup J. However, while
Dinarids are characterized by the branch J2a, Pelasgians are
characterized by J2 (with no mutations at all). It is the most present
in Sephardic Jews (23,8%), Lebanonians (20%), at the areas of
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central Turkey (17,8%), and south Italy (16,3%) and in French
Baskians (13,6%).
The branch J2b corresponds to the descendants of the ancient
Etrurians. It is present in Kosovar Albanians (16,7%), Albanians in
Albania (14,3%), in central-north Italy (9,6%), in Hunza of Pakistan
(7,9%), Macedonians (6,3%), inhabitants of Belgrade (5,3%), etc.
The fact that Eastern Mediterranids are characterized by HG-J refers
to their Egyptian origin. That is also confirmed by the similarity of
their skeletons from Crete, from the times of the Minoan culture,
and the skeletons of the ancient Egyptians:
"The Cretan skulls found at various sites on the island belong
to a fairly uniform type; this is a small Mediterranean variety
with a mean cranial index of about 72. Metrically, they could
fit perfectly into a number of Egyptian collections, from the
Naqada predynastic to the Middle Empire. Overall, these
Cretan crania are a little smaller, shorter-faced, and less
leptorrhine than the majority of the Egyptian series, and
show leanings in the direction of the Copper Age skulls from
Alishar, and the Early Bronze Age ones from Palestine. The
mean type was somewhere between Danubian, Cappadocian,
and Egyptian forms." (Carleton S. Coon, The Races of
Europe, pg 141)
Proto-Egytian origin of the Pelasgians was described by
Herodot in V century BC, and also in the Bible where they were
represented as descendants of Noah’s grandson, Ham’s son Misraim
(Misraim was the name for Egypt). In fact, by Bible genealogy, they
originated from Pelistim, one of the descendants of Misraim’s son
Casluhim. Their exodus from the island Crete (Caphtor) to the
shores of Palestine is also recorded in the Holy Bible:
"Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the
Philistines from Caphtor?" (Amos 9:7)
Anthropological similarity between statues of the ancient
Pelasgians and today’s Palestinians is obvious even nowadays, in
spite of their great semitization, dinarization, etc.
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The picture represents the statue of Greek Kora (V century
BC) compared with the Palestinian woman Hanna Ashrawi, a
famous fighter for the rights of the Palestinian people.
Unlike their close brothers, the Dinarids, who have adapted
to the highland climate, Mediterranids have adapted to the warm
Mediterranean climate. According to Croatian Etymology
Dictionary by Alemko Gluhak, the notion “plaza” (beach) is derived
from the root of the word “Pelazg” (Pelasgian in English), which
meant “plainsman”.
The Mediterranids are characterized by HLA-B gen and
within it the antigen B35, which is the most present HLA-B antigen
in populations of Palestinians (36,4%), Hunza people (40,8%),
Kurds (26,3%) and Armenians (25,3%). In Macedonians, HLA-B35
is present with 27,4%, and in Georgians 19,7%. In the entire area of
Serbia, antigen HLA-B35 is present in 25,35% of the inhabitants, in
Vojvodina 20,2%, and in Kosovo in 23,26% of people. Only in the
area of Central Serbia, the presence of Pelasgian antigen HLA-B35
exceeds the presence of Dinaride HLA-B5 antigen.
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The population with HLA-B35 is characterized by the
temptation of the Pisces psychological type, i.e. a proneness to
depression and self-pity. In Dalmatia we can hear the songs of their
present-day descendants, which contain depressive words: "It
doesn’t matter that you left me and caused me pain, it matters that
you made my mother cry!”
In Italians, a compassionate spirit is woven into the cult of
mother and Virgin Mary, so in religion it assumed an important
mediator function in the relationship between a sinner and the just
God. Their logic is as follows: "If Christ is not willing to forgive (in
all likelihood, the un-repented sins), Mary will, and she will
persuade Christ to it by her motherly feelings, and then Christ will
make the just Father to forgive." When a mother of an Italian dies,
he suffers for the rest of his life and the emotional pain is visible on
his face.
The defense mechanisms of self-pity and crying over oneself
can sometimes be found in beggars of Romani origin, who often
represent themselves as sad using facial expressions and speaking
intonation, and by doing so, they want to show that they are not
responsible (guilty) for being in the situation to beg for money.
Genetics reveals that the Aztec and Maya Indians and the
Ecuadorian group of South American Indians, by a significant
percentage, are also of close origin with the ancient Pelasgians,
since they are characterized by a high presence of HLA-B35 as well.
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Their common genetic origin is also
followed by some common cultural
elements. In his book “The Races of
Man” (pg 199), Joseph Deniker says
that the game in our country known as
“Man, don’t be offended!” existed in
Egypt and Palestine under the name of
“Tob”, in India under the name of
“Pachisi”
and
in
the
ancient
Precolumbian Mexico under the name
of “Patolitzi” (“Patolli”).
Scientist William Johnson discovered a great number of
common word roots between the Old Egyptian language and the
languages of the Aztecs (today’s Nahuatl tribe) and the Mayas, and
he published them in several of his works: “Nahuatl and Ancient
Egyptian”, “Comparative Maya and Egyptian”, etc. Here are some
examples: rain in Nahuatl: QUIAHUITI, in Old Egyptian: HUIT;
father in Nahuatl: TATLI, in Old Egyptian: AT; well in Nahuatl:
AMELLI, in Old Egyptian: AMAM; river
bank in Nahuatl: TENTLI, in Old Egyptian:
TENA; snake in Nahuatl: COATL, in Old
Egyptian: KHUT; Venus in Nahuatl:
TOCHTIL, in Old Egyptian: TCHA; to walk
in Nahuatl: PAXA, to walk hastily in Old
Egyptian: PAKH. In Nahuatl, beginning is
PEHUALTIA, and in Old Egyptian PAU
means early time. In the Mayan language,
HOM means playground with a ball, while
HEM In Old Egyptian means little ball, and
so on.
The entire population characterized by the psychological
type of Pisces is also fond of music with the similar motive noticed
in Latin American music (for instance: Mapuche, Mama Juanita, La
kookaracha), in Greek music (Ta pedhia tou pirea, Ta
lemononadika), in Dalmatian (My good Nono) and partly in our
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ethnic music (Uzice’s kolo), which aim is to cheer up a sad person,
but not to set them free from depression that is the foundation of
Pisces philosophy of life. This contradiction between the spirit
(motives) and the feelings is noticeable in the fact that such music is
often joyful in itself, but its lyrics are extremely depressive. The
same motive that characterizes their music is recognizable in their
speech. Dinamical letter names of the Phoenician alphabet (aleph,
beth, gimel, daleth...) got corresponding melodical names in the
Greek alphabet (alpha, beta, gamma, delta...), because the Ancient
Greeks were mainly of the Eastern Mediterranean origin, and unlike
the Phoenicians (who were mostly of the Semitic origin), they spoke
with a melodic accent. Due they generally live in bustling areas, the
bearers of the antigen HLA-35 are more than any other
anthropological type mixed with people of diverse ancestry.
Therefore, we cannot expect to identify their authentic
psychophysical distinctions in their purest form so clearly and so
often. Astrologers observed that phenomenon and expressed it in the
following words, naturally imbued with the logic of their
superstition:
"The fish is the twelfth sign, a composite of all that's gone
before, and his nature is a blend of all the other signs, which
is quite a lot to cope with. His surprising ability to organize
and concentrate on detail which pops up now and then, as
well as his gentleness, reflects his inner knowledge of the
lessons of Virgo. His judgment is as fair and detached as that
of Libra, and his love of pleasure is also purely Libran.
Pisces people have the crazy sense of fun of Cancer, as well
as both the Cancerian sympathy and crabbiness. He's often
overflowing with Aries idealism and enthusiasm, but usually
without the Mars drive. A Pisces person can zip around with
Gemini quickness, talk just as fast and think just as cleverly.
He can also be as lazy and peaceful as Taurus. He has the
clever wit of Mercury and the soft grace of Venus, and he
combines it with the mystic penetration of Scorpio, without
the Scorpio's ruthlessness." (Linda Goodman, Sun Signs, pg 502-503)
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Due to mixing with other populations, the psychological type
of Pisces, besides the mechanism of self-pity, has the characteristics
of those psychological types it is mostly mixed with, and those are
mainly the features of Western Mediterranids (Libra), Dinarids
(Aries), Semites (Scorpio), Alpids (Virgo) and one particular
population that has not been mentioned yet and which is close to
Mongols (Cancer), but without their adaptive attributes for the cold
climate – the gathering instinct for making food supplies and a
prominent motherly instinct. Combined with Atlanto-Mediterranids
(Leo), Dinarids (Aries) and Western Mediterranids (Libra), the
psychological type of Pisces is inhibited in open expression of its
mechanism of self-pity, because it comes in conflict with the
character of triumph, arrogance and pride. Men yearning for power,
who are proud and vain, naturally feel humiliated when they face the
idea of being miserable, so that their mechanism of self-pity and
weeping over themselves becomes suffocated or secret.
If we keep in mind that the characteristics of the zodiacal
signs have been defined in the area of Mediterranean and the Middle
East, we should be aware that around the area of Greece the Eastern
Mediterranids, which are characterized by HLA-B35, are mainly
mixed with one archaic Proto-Greek population which is
characterized by antigen HLA-A11 in HLA-Agene. By its structure,
A11 reveals similarity with the populations which correspond to
Cancer, Virgo and Gemini, and the genetic opposite from antigens
that are typical for the Mediterranids and Dinarids. Hence, the
combination A11, B35 arised from the mixing of nations of very
diverse origins, and it preserved various characteristics from both
sides of its pre-ancestors through genetic drift.
In the area of Greece, the great majority of bearers of the
Eastern Mediterranean antigen HLA-B35 have, in its next HLA-A
gen, antigen A11, while in Serbia only every sixth descendant
(16,28%) of the ancient Pelasgians forms the haplotype HLAA11,B35. In the world, A11 is most present in the region of the
Austronesian anthropological type, which is classified into the
South-Mongolian race by anthropologists. Also, by its genetic
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structure, antigen HLA-A11 is very close to antigens that
characterize the Yellow race and the Nordids. That is the reason
why the zodiacal sign of Pisces comprises the elements of Cancer in
its interpretation – the Cancer psychological type corresponds to the
Mongol anthropological type. Nevertheless, due to its
mediterraneanization, and in some cases its semitization, the
psychological type of Pisces (the Austronesians) lacks psychological
attributes of Cancer, which are the result of adaptation of the
Mongols to the cold climate, for instance, prominent motherly
instinct or the instinct for making food supplies. The emotiveness of
Pisces is under the masculine Mediterranean influence somehow
more abstract, and astrologers have defined it as the temptation
described below:
"There is a strong tendency to mediumship among the Pisces
people, and therein is a danger greater than any other on
earth. No one should "sit for development" and degenerate
into the tool of low spirits, but Pisces people in particular are
"lost" if taken control of. They cannot free themselves ...
because generally inert and devoid of willpower. They are
timid, and even the mean are tearful on the slightest
provocation; they love leisure more than comfort, and do no
work which is not absolutely necessary to keep body and
soul together. They love change of scene, rove about
considerably, generally in an aimless manner ... When many
planets are in Pisces, the person will have a hard life,
because he or she will not want to take up life's burden, but
will love to dream; such people become recluses; they seek
to master the hidden arts, occultism and mysticism; are not
guided by reason, but rather by their likes and dislikes, and
unless they can find an occupation that is otherwise isolated
from the ordinary business and trend of life they will feel out
of place. They are prone to incur the enmity of people with
whom they come in contact intimately, nobody seems to get
along with them, and nearly everybody, whether he or she
shows it or not, will take a dislike to them." (Max Heindel &
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Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, pg 110111)
Antigen HLA-A11 is present in 37,27% of Gypsies, and
maybe just because of it we recognize their tendency towards
mediumship and witchery, which are the temptations typical of
Pisces, but also their considerable artistic abilities. Antigen HLAA11 is most present in the Taiwanese Hakkas (88,1%), then in the
tribe Madang in Papua New Guinea (86,75%), on India's
Southwestern Coast in Pulaya tribe (78,0%), in the Australian
Aborigines Anindilyakwa (42,24%), in New Delhi, India (41,5%),
etc.
Although Mongols are adapt to the polar climate due to the
attributes of the Yellow race, their sub-branch characterized by
HLA-A11 lives in warm and moist climate areas of the
Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific, because it is genetically
mixed with the Mediterranean type HLA-B35 and with other
anthropological types (often with the Semites) that are suited for
mediterranean climate. For that reason, A11 is usually present in
island populations, whether of distant Malaysia, or in nearby
Mediterranean. At the territory of the town Rijeka in Croatia
(16,24%) and on the island of Hvar (16,09%) this type is more
present than among the average population of Croatian continental
area (13,14%). In Greece, it is most present in Cyprus (21,32%),
where it is present twice more that in the continental area of Greece
(9,94%). It is also especially present in North Italy (19,2%) – where
it was probably brought to by the Etrurians, and in North Ireland
(19,2%) – where it most likely arrived together with the AtlantoMediterranids. It is present in the area of the island of Sardinia as
well (18,46%), in Romania (15,8%), Macedonia (14,62%) and
Bulgaria (14,01%) – probably as remnants of the aboriginal
population in that area.
Antigen HLA-A11 in Serbia is present in 12,58% of its
inhabitants, and it is most common in Southern-East Serbia (in Nis
and its periphery, with 15,4%), while it is much less present in the
areas of Vojvodina (9,4%) and Kosovo (7,6%).
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The appearance of the Austronesian anthropological type
was firstly defined by German physiologist Johann Blumenbach
(1752–1840) under the name of the Malay race, which, according to
him, populated a broad region from Madagascar to Eastern Islands.
Johann Blumenbach describes the physical attributes of the Malay
race as follows:
"Malay variety. Tawny-coloured (s. 43); hair black, soft,
curly, thick and plentiful (s. 52) ; head moderately narrowed
; forehead slightly swelling (s. 62); nose full, rather wide, as
it were diffuse, end thick; mouth large (s. 56), upper jaw
some what prominent with the parts of the face when seen in
profile, sufficiently prominent and distinct from each other
(s.
56)."
(Johann
Friedrich
Blumenbach,
The
Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach,
pg 266)
The languages spoken by Austronesians belong to the
Austronesian language family, which extendibility corresponds to
the great distribution of HLA-A11. The question arises: is the
Austronesian type in our area, besides its genetic marker HLA-A11,
noticed also by its anthropological attributes? Are there people in
this region whose physical appearance corresponds to the bearers of
the Austronesian language family, i.e. to the Malays and Australian
Aborigines, to some extent?
As we know that HLA-A11 is being inherited in haplotype
along with the Eastern Mediterranean antigen HLA-B35, we will
refer to the experience of astrologers in their definitions of the
physical appearance of the many varieties of the Pisces zodiacal
sign. In this comment of the physical appearance of Pisces, given by
The Society of Astrologers of Yugoslavia, we see that people born
under the sign of Pisces are characterized by the following features:
"Generally low stature, a lymphatic body, legs which are extremely
beautiful or short and fat" (Meet Astrology and Yourselves, pg 150).
Talking about the skin color in Pisces, Mile Dupor says that they are
characterized by "fleshy, darker complexion" (Astromedicine, pg
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30). Astrologers Max Heindel and Augusta Foss Heindel say for
Pisces:
"The typical Piscean is short, flabby and fleshy with a
waddling gait not unlike those born under the sign Cancer,
but differs from them by having a stouter body. ... The nose
large and flat." (Max Heindel & Augusta Foss Heindel, The
Message of the Stars, pg 67)
Astrologer Aleksandar Imširagić divides the Jupiterian sign
of Pisces into two types whose physical appearance is different.
Type 1 has the characteristics that are really recognizable as the
attributes of the Austronesian anthropological type, as follows:
"They
are
very
closely
reminiscent of fish – they have
very big, bulging or convex eyes,
large flabby lips, weak facial
bones and slanted forehead and
chin. Head and body are round
and usually fleshy. This is one of
the shortest and roundest types,
but also one of the cutest! Their
eyes
merrily
blink
with
compassion and love. Their
facial features, even if too big or
somehow rubbery, are flexible
and graciously defined. Nose is soft and can have the
distinctive fishy- clownish point, or an apple-like one,
slightly pointed upwards. The mouth and the whole face are
movable and flexible – perfect for different emotional
expressions this most universal sign is capable of. This type
of Pisces likes comfortable, leisurely clothes and everything
looks like falling apart around them, or falling off them.
Their posture is noticeably curved, shoulders are bowed
forward, and hair is unstyled, usually untidy. ... The voice is
sad, weak or lamenting, usually high." (Aleksandar
Imširagić, The Wheel of Destiny, pg 390-391)
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It is very possible
that the archaic Proto-Greek
type (HLA-A11) developed
from
the
ancient
Neanderthals, for whom it
was
noticed
to
be
anthropologically close to
the Austronesians. The
analysis of these skeletons
indicated that, due to
prevalence of arthritis, they
walked with a hunch and
had
pronounced
consequences of arthritis visible on their ankles, backs, hips, arms,
fingers and knees. Scientists ascertained that antigen HLA-A11
showed expressive substantial correlation with inherited proneness
to arthritis, especially in the Far East.
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF TAURUS, AQUARIUS AND
CAPRICORN
The zodiacal types of Taurus, Aquarius and Capricorn do not
have their corresponding types in anthropology, but instead
represent mixtures of other anthropological types. The planet Saturn,
which is, according to antique astrologers, the ruler over Capricorn
and Aquarius, affects the mentality of the Dinarids (Aries) and the
Cro-Magnons (Sagittarius) in such a way that it cools them down
and turns them into Capricorn and Aquarius types. In fact, all of the
three mentioned zodiacal signs (Taurus, Aquarius and Capricorn)
originate as the result of intermixing of three fiery masculine signs
(Leo, Sagittarius and Aries) with cold astrological signs that
correspond to the anthropological types with the lower level of male
hormones (the Alpids and Mongols).
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TAURUS – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIXTURE OF
ATLANO-MEDITERRANIDS AND ALPIDS
The Taurus type represents the blend of one parent who is an
Atlanto-Mediterranid (Leo) and other parent who is an Alpid
(Virgo). It is most common in the Poles and in the Baltic countries.
In our region it is most present in the mixture between the colonized
inhabitants of Vojvodina and its natives. In the description of
Taurus’ physical attributes, given by the astrologer Mile Dupor, we
identify a combination of Atlanto-Mediterranids (Leo) and Alpids
(Virgo): “Massive body, strong legs and back of the head, bulky,
heavy movements, harsh, firm walk, a rather thick neck, broad face,
prominently bigger teeth. Women are not as beautiful as rounded
and fatty” (Do not believe it, check it, pg 61).
AQUARIUS – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIXTURE OF
SAGITTARIUS AND ALPIDS
The Aquarius type represents the mixture of the nordized
Cro-Magnon (Sagittarius with the elements of Gemini) and the
Alpid (Virgo). The appearance of Aquarius reveals the combination
of a Cro-Magnon and an Alpid. According to this, astrologers
ascribe either a tall or a short stature to them. “The head is usually
large and square.“ (Charles Carter, The Principles of Astrology, pg
157). Depending on climate, they emphasize their different
attributes and it seems that in some astrologers, the element of
Alpids (Virgo) is replaced with the element of Semits (Scorpio).
“The stature is rather lower, usually plumper, solid body build, fine
complexion, including colors from white to pearly-pink and red.
Their hair, fair in the childhood, later becomes darker. They often
have a very beautiful face, magnetic eyes, attractive and penetrative
look.” (The Assosiation of the Astrologers of Yugoslavia, Meet
Astrology and Yourselves, pg 138)
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CAPRICORN – THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MIXTURE OF
MONGOLS AND DINARIDS
The Capricorn type comprises those people whose one
parent is of the Mongolian origin (that corresponds to Cancer), and
the other parent is of the Dinaric origin (that corresponds to Aries).
According to this, astrologers ascribe different anthropological
characteristics to Capricorn. Some describe their high stature (that
corresponds to the Dinaric type), while others describe their low
stature (that corresponds to the Mongols).
For one type of Capricorn, eyes are close together (which
corresponds to the Dinaric type, while in the other, “the eyes are
wide-set as in Cancer” (which corresponds to the Mongolian type).
Linda Goodman’s description of the anthropological attributes of
Capricorn clearly shows their double (Dinaric-Mongolian) origin:
“Capricorns can be stocky and muscular, thin and wiry or
plump and soft.“ (pg 406)
Astrologer Mile Dupor accurately notices Dinaric elements among
Capricorn’s attributes, so he says:
„An epic man, a highlander. ... A national type – our
Dinarian.“ (Do not believe it, check it out, pg 94-95)
Naturally, the Mongol’s (Cancer) patriotic spirit should be
distinguished from the Dinaride (Aries) patriotic spirit.
Whereas the first one is grounded on selfishness and
possessiveness, which means on a national territory (i.e. land), the
latter one is based upon loftiness and pride, which means upon
national values. Both kinds of patriotisms are irrational because they
lead people to sacrifice their lives, either for the sake of preserving
national values or for the sake of their land, as if people exist for
national values and their land, and not vice versa.
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THE PARALLELS BETWEEN ASTROLOGICAL SHIFTING
OF BLAME TO THE STARS AND RACISTIC SHIFTING OF
BLAME TO HUMAN GENETICS
As we just saw, the psychophysical types ascribed to the
various zodiacal signs do not have its source in the moment of
person’s birth, but in his heritage. It is only the matter of accident
whether someone will be born under the adequate to himself
zodiacal sign or ascendant, and then, recognizing himself in the
zodiacal description of his sign, to have temptation to believe that
the stars are responsible for his character tendencies.
Just like there is strong correlation among physical attributes
of different dog breeds and their corresponding characters, there also
is a correlation among human populations of diverse origins and
their specific psychological types. This correlation was inadvertently
noticed and documented by astrologers alone, who gave every
reasonable person the proof that the source of his temptations should
not be sought in the stars or anywhere else, than in himself and his
own nature.
However, if we do not understand the crucial difference
between humans and animals, we might have a temptation to excuse
our irresponsibility for our motives and behavior by calling upon our
sinful nature, in the same way astrologers excuse it by calling upon
the position of celestial bodies.
Don’t we often hear such excuses nowadays: „I cannot be
who I’m not! This is my nature!“, or „Do what your heart tells you!
It will never wish for something bad!“.
These days, it is forgotten that there is one essential
difference between humans and animals. An animal is determined
by its genetics, which determines its behavior through its instincts.
A human being has a will to act freely and disregard its heritage,
according to common sense and its conscience. Unlike an animal
which is determined by genetics and environment, a man has the
power and responsibility to rule himself and the world around him.
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The neglect of this truth about man´s personal responsibility,
which was a crucial element of Enlightenment on the Western
civilization, led to the underestimation of man´s personality to the
level of an irresponsible animal. The Theory of Evolution tried to
justify man´s hedonistic motives as motives which are purposeful
for his existence, even though it became obvious – especially today,
that they endanger survival of humanity and lead to disintegration of
family and civilization, since instead of survival of an individual and
the species, became more important to them the experience of
pleasure.
The next step was made by ideology of Nazism or racism,
which did not want to see the crucial difference between animals
and humans contained in our ability to conduct ourselves
responsibly, and for that reason searched the source of the blessings
of Western civilization in human nature, not in the idea of
enlightenment. Analyzing various racial types, it identified the
Aryans as a human super race that surpassed all other races of the
Earth by their psychophysical attributes. But it seems quite enough
just to look at the history of the Aryan race before Reformation and
Enlightenment, to see that the Aryans were primitive wild tribes
who, for thousands of years, could not stand out from other nations
of the world by any of their characteristics. Moreover, all historical
sources from the ancient times to the XVI century, represent those
tribes as aggressive, cruel, lazy and primitive.
In times of their spiritual reformation and Enlightenment, the
people of Northern Europe were deeply aware that the source of
their great blessing was in their fight against the weaknesses of their
own character, in reconsidering the motives of their hearts and
repentance, and in living in harmony with the Ten Commandments
of God. An excuse for sin did not exist, since the faith in the
Almighty God does not offer a justification for weakness and frailty
of character, because if God exists, He can change human nature.
In relation to the newly-arisen reformation of character,
reformator Zwingli wrote:
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"´Peace has her habitation in our town,´ ‘no quarrel, no
hypocrisy, no envy, no strife. Whence can such union come but
from the Lord, and our doctrine, which fills us with the fruits of
peace and piety?’” (James A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism,
Published by Hartland Publications, 2003, pg 496)
Italian reformer Bernardino Ochino who escaped to Geneva,
described the spirit of reformation the saw there:
"Benevolence is so great that the poor need not beg. The
people admonish each other in brotherly fashion, as Christ
prescribes. Lawsuits are banished from the city; nor is there any
simony, murder, or party spirit, but only peace and charity. On the
other hand, there are no organs here, no noise of bells, no showy
songs, no burning candles and lamps, no relics, pictures, statues,
canopies, or splendid robes, no farces, or cold ceremonies. The
churches are quite free from all idolatry." (Philip Schaff, History of
the Christian Church, pg 645)
In similar words Ljubomir Nenadović, during the middle of the XIX
century, describes the character of the reformatted Germans:
“Everywhere you can see happy and content people. There is
no malice or envy. Everyone rejoices in welfare of others, and feels
pity for their misfortunes. German societies are organized in such a
way, that it seems to you that everybody lives just for the benefit
and satisfaction of their neighbors. This is the country where people
care for cattle in such a manner to make it feel the benefits of this
tame civilization as well. Everyone is obligated to treat their cattle
with humanity. ...
There is no nation which criticizes its own faults and
mistakes so severely as Germans do. For every misfortune which
happens to them or to their country, the Germans blame only
themselves. The French always shift the blame to someone else. The
English never blame anyone, they are silent, and as a nation which
reads the Bible a great deal, they find that all the ways are God’s
ways that need to be passed through, whether they are easy or hard.
The Germans are religious, diligent and moderate. They live in
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accordance with their motto: work as if you will live forever and
give your prayers to God as if you will die tomorrow. ...
In several short centuries, the Germans accomplished
miracles, turned their land into a true paradise, the land that Romans
consider for some kind of Siberia; they developed their industry,
reformed the Roman faith, built schools, improved sciences, laws,
freedom, and enlightened Middle Europe with the real education. ...
In the areas where the apostles came from, the cradle of Jesus
Christ, darkness and superstition reign, and in the North a German
pastor justifies the Christian love to a gathered crowd, and interprets
the evangelistic words exactly in the way that they should be heard
and understood by those who appreciate the real truth and who
gravitate towards further prosperity and enlightenment of their
reason.“ (Ljubomir Nenadović, The Entire Opus, pg 576, 589, 616).
However, when the Western civilization began to give in to the
temptation of hedonism, there emerged a need to transfer the
responsibility for our acts, honor and disgrace for the achievements
and failures to someone else, and thus excuse the irresponsible
attitude towards our weaknesses. Both astrology and Nazism
experienced their resurrection in times of the great spiritual
depression of humankind, immediately after the First World War.
However, unlike astrology that shifts the responsibility for human
destiny to the stars, Nazism transfered the causes of the great
cultural, scientific and industrial expansion of Western civilization
from the Enlightened human will to human genetics.
Instead of reconsidering the motives of our heart and seeking the
perpetrator for our problems in those motives, modern philosophy
led us to seek the perpetrators outside ourselves. Nazism offered us
sacrificial lambs in people of different anthropological origin. The
same rigorousness Germans showed towards their own character
weaknesses during the Reformation, they started to show towards
the Jews and the Gypsies during Nazism, searching for
psychological satisfaction for their own irresponsibility towards
themselves. Under the influence of Darwinism, we forgot that our
humanity was not based upon our biological nature, but upon the
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conscious and responsible action of our will. In global terms,
nothing could humiliate human dignity more, and even the
representatives of the Aryan race, than Nazism with its concept
which underestimated everything that made us human.
Indeed, we are human beings as much as we consciously
control ourselves, and our surroundings, and throwing away the
ideas of Enlightenment and spirituality, Nazism sought Aryan
values in the biological nature, thus bringing a human being down to
the level of an animal, which only value is in the random quality of
its inherited pedigree. As we could see in the analysis of the
psychological types, human beings by their nature do not have
healthy motives that rule them normally. A human is not a human if
they do not control themselves responsibly. A human being has to
win the struggle against their temptations in order to become human.
No one comes to this world as a human, but becomes a human if
they want it willingly.
PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ASTROLOGICAL
PHENOMENON
FINITENESS OF SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY
With the help of scientific analysis, we are able to unmask a
great deal of mistaken notions and explain why some superstitions
are functioning. Nevertheless, there is a certain level of the
astrological phenomenon, which cannot be explained by applying
the scientific methodology and hence requires the clarification from
the philosophical and religious perspectives.
Astrologers believe that the position of celestial bodies
determines not only human character, but also various events on
Earth, and because of that, among other things, they practice
evaluations and prognosis of future events.
This domain of the astrological phenomenon cannot be
explained by anthropological or any other scientific discipline.
Moreover, the use of scientific methods – measurement and
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experiment, can lead us to fall under the influence of astrological
superstition.
For instance, if we come to a scientifically verifiable
knowledge that people within the psychological type of Cancer –
which we showed to be of Mongolian origin – are indeed being born
more oftenly under the zodiac sign of Cancer (from June 21 to July
20) than under any other zodiac signs over a year, we will fall into
temptation to believe that the position of the stars does influence the
events on Earth, and thus our character as well. If an astrologer
reads the realistic description of events in our lives by looking at the
stars, or if a chiromancer tells us the same by looking at our hands,
or if a radiesthesist accurately guesses which one of our organs is ill
by using a pendulum, or if a black cat crosses our path and
afterwards we have an accident, then we can fall into temptation to
believe in the supernatural principle of superstition, in spite of the
senselessness of the offered explanation.
Those who have never experienced supernatural phenomena
and who therefore deny them irresponsibly and fanatically will
support them in such a way if they experience them personally. We
just need to remember the French psychologist Michèle Goklen who
had gathered 24,000 individual data of famous people and their
occupations, in order to disprove the astrological phenomenon and
then, due to the strong correlation of sportspeople with the planet
Mars, eventually became a fanatic representative of astrology.
Application of scientific methodology – experiment and
measurement, in our efforts to explain the characteristics of
supernatural phenomena, can deceive us and lead us into delusions
of superstition, because it makes us interpret them only on the basis
of partial information – those which are available to us through our
scientific methods.
Let us pay attention to a magician who skillfully deceives
our senses in order to make us believe in his supernatural powers.
How does he do this? He hides the important truth about the
background of his magic tricks from us, letting us deceive ourselves
on the basis of the half-truth which was shown to us.
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Superstition is often founded on the detected correlation
between two different symptoms of one and the same cause,
whereby the common cause has not been known yet (or we do not
want to find it out). The correlation between two symptoms could be
deduced by a correct scientific methodology, but without knowledge
about the common cause that correlation would lead us to a
mistaken notion, regarding the explanation of the phenomenon of
superstition. For example, a scientist who explores the correlation
between the softness of the asphalt in London and the number of
policemen who faint while standing guard in front of Buckingham
Palace, might come to interesting hypotheses about a mystical
influence of the softness of the asphalt on the policemen, but he will
be deceived if he does not comprehend the common cause – in this
case the warmth of the Sun, which melts the asphalt and increases
the possibility of policemen’s fainting. However, the common cause
can be hiden, “uncatchable” and unverifiable by scientific methods,
so that its clarification can only stay within the frames of philosophy
and religion.
It means that even if we are witnesses to certain events that
happen in accordance with zodiac predictions, it does not
necessarily prove that these events were caused by the astrological
factor, but perhaps by some other cause that is hidden behind the
astrological phenomenon, and which is unknown to us at the
moment. So, in order to explain the supernatural element of the
astrological phenomenon, we need to rise above the astrological
experience itself, and take a critical analysis of its meaning.
Replying to rebukes of commonsense critiques, an astrologer
will be prone to give an answer which comprises elements of
scientific methodology:
“I do not feel the need to reconsider whether something I
experienced is possible or impossible! Why should I doubt
something I see with my own eyes?”
Nevertheless, we can be misled by our experience. Let us
remember the magic trick. If we believe in everything we see, we
can be deceived by the first cartoon we watch and think that its
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characters are real only because we do see and hear them on TV,
following their actions. Relying on our senses and feelings, we can
be conned by the parapsychological phenomena, for instance – by
astral projection, or by emergence of “a spirit of a deceased”, or by
contact with “an extraterrestrial visitor from a flying saucer”, or by
any other supernatural experience, not because we do not have an
authentic experience, but because we do not understand its
explanation.
What protects us against our mental limitations, and
delusions caused by our own experiences?
The responsible use of reason!
Reason analyzes the meaning of the knowledge which we
attain from our senses, as well as the meaning of the knowledge
which we obtained by application of scientific methods –
measurement and experiment.
Yet, haven’t we just heard the stories about the limitations of
our reason?
Yes, we have! But these stories did not talk about the
limitations of reason itself, but rather about the limitations of human
senses. We need the help of reason, exactly to avoid getting conned
due to limitations of our sensual perceptions. Our reason makes us
capable of exceeding the constraints created by our own
experiences, keeps us from being deceived by them, and enables our
belief in the truth which is beyond our experience.
The main obstacle to discovery of truth does not lie in our
limitation of reason, or even in the constraints of our senses, but in
the bad quality of our motives. We do not want to reveal the truth
which will make us aware of our unfulfilled responsibilities in life.
Just as spiritually discontent people have a need to seek for
pleasures, in the same way people with unclean conscience have a
need for misconceptions to justify their motives and actions which
cannot stand the commonsense critiques in front of their conscience.
When on the basis of the same scientific knowledge, in one’s
mind is able to create a multitude of diverse and mutually
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contradicting hypotheses, the only way to find the most acceptable
answer to the question of what the truth is does not lie in hands of
scientific methodology any more, but in hands of the motives which
control logical thinking. Bad motives will lead us to an unfair and
subjective function of reason and we will choose that hypothetical
interpretation that flatters our undefeated character weaknesses and
our unclean conscience, instead of the one that corresponds to
reality. However, we are moved by our sincere and elevated will,
reason will empower us to conquer the limitations that are imposed
by our experience. It will give us the freedom not to be deceived by
what we do see, and believe in what we do not see.
Even if our astrological experience is authentic and
astonishingly real, reasonable analysis of its meaning will save us
from being tricked by its deception in the same way reasonable
analysis will save us from being deceived by a magic trick.
Why is it senseless to believe that there really is the
influence of the celestial bodies hiding behind the astrological
phenomenon?
Because it doesn’t make sense that the astrological factor,
depending upon when people are born, forms the differences among
them that do not correspond to the real needs of their lives and are
thus not useful at all. It is meaningless to believe that we, in spite of
our conscience, reason and will that naturally give us the power to
rise above our determination, are determined by a certain
astrological factor. It is senseless to think that reasonable human
beings have no ability to rule over themselves and their environment
more that, according to astrologers, can be controlled by the celestial
bodies. In fact, if astrologers would really believe in absolute
determination, their evil would be less, but by falsely representing
the stars as things which are responsible for what happens to us,
they lead us to wrongly use our will in attempts to confront that
determination. It is meaningless and unjust to believe that our
blessing and happiness lie in tactics of evading astrological
influences (for example, in accepting the advice to avoid working on
a certain day in order to prevent a predicted failure), and not in the
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choice between good and evil, i.e. in victories over everyday
temptations. It is righteous that our success in life be proportional to
the chastity of the motives that stimulate us, instead of depending on
the magic power of some ritual or on any other action of our will.
By reasonable analysis of the meaning of astrological
experiences, we comprehend that it is not possible for astrological
factors to determines the events in our lives because that would
neither be logical, or just. But now, when we realize what the truth
is not, there arises a need to understand what the truth about the
astrological phenomenon actually is!
In our mind, we are able to create innumerable mutually
contradictory hypotheses on some phenomenon and every one of
them can be logically correct, but we still cannot know which one is
true. By our senses, we can check if these hypotheses are based
upon scientifically true knowledge. Our reason can tell us if they are
logical and thus determine whether they could possibly be true.
However, neither science nor philosophy can declare that some
hypothesis is accurate. We must decide that for ourselves and then
believe that it is the truth. There is no need to make decisions on
some questions in life and in those cases; we will keep the scientific
and philosophical distance. However, the most important questions
in life request from us not to stay on the level of hypotheses,
because life demands from us to make decisions on them, and to act
as we find acceptable. There are certain needs in life that demand
answers from us and they force us to react, setting in motion our
motives and actions, and require us to take on a firm attitude and
choose our belief. That is why every person is a believer, no matter
if they admit it or not. If they would not believe, then they would do
nothing at all. They would stop breathing because they would not
have the scientific proof that the air, which surrounds them, is not
poisoned, and overall, they would not be able to do anything else in
their life with absolute certainty that they are not deluded. Everyone
is a believer, and only the quality of our motives, which drive us and
control our reason, determine which hypothesis we will believe in –
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the one that corresponds to reality, or the one that corresponds to our
subjective impulses and defense mechanisms.
AREA
KNOWLEDGE
LEVEL
BASE
CHECKING
METHOD
SCIENCE
FACT
SENSES
MEASUREMENT
EXPERIMENT
PHILOSOPHY
ASSUMPTION
REASON
LOGIC
RELIGION
BELIEF
MOTIVATION
VALIDITY OF
TRUSTING
OBJECT
The difference between philosophy and religion is that
philosophy asks hypothetical questions and allows all hypothetical
answers to be possible if they satisfied the criteria of logic, whereas
religion claims that the revelation of truth already exists, and that it
came from the Creator Himself. By referring to sensual limitations
of human knowledge and to the poor quality of the motives that
naturally drive us through life, religion asks from us to abandon our
belief in ourselves and in our own limitations, and to believe in God
and His might instead. In the gift of God’s love, it wants us to find a
healthy strength of veracity and the main moving motive of our
lives. Hence, we will now deal with a religious analysis of the
astrological phenomenon, but in such a way to expose the notion of
religion itself to the same criticism and examination we applied
towards astrology itself.
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RELIGIOUS ANALYSIS OF ASTROLOGICAL
PHENOMENA
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIOUS VIEWS ON THE WORLD
The religious idea is that God created us out of love and for
love. God did not create us as unhappy beings who are condemned
to search for happiness during the entire life, but made us as happy
beings who should express their happiness through love for others
and creativity. But, alienating from God, we lost unselfish love, and
became filled with deep discontent, and took on a burden of unclean
conscience due to our impurity. By losing unselfish goodness, we
also lost the predisposed purpose of life – to love, to live for others
and our Creator. Filled with unquenchable inner discontent, now we
try to achieve happiness of our souls independently of God,
misusing our sensual, mental and emotional experiences. The
burden of corrupted conscience made us loaded with various
defense mechanisms, fears, phobias and insecurities, and also made
us prone to religious fanaticism through which we attempt to calm
our conscience apart of God and His plan of salvation for the fallen
humanity. Throughout the history of our degradation, we undergo
different temptations and suffer the consequences of our sins. PreDeluge civilization was punished for its sinful ways by God who
sent the Great Flood to destroy all life, but He saved righteous Noah,
his wife, and their three sons with their families. During the flood, a
large number of plant and animal species disappeared, and today we
only find their fossil remains, whereas Noah preserved the most
important species in his ark. After the Flood, due to the
disappearance of Earth’s water canopy (“an expanse between the
waters to separate water from water”, Genesis 1:6), the greenhouse
effect stopped, and consequently, great climate changes occurred on
Earth. So God performed the miracle of adaptation of humankind to
various Post-Deluge climate conditions. The Black race is adapted
to a warm equatorial climate, the White race to a moderate climate,
and the Yellow race to a polar climate. Within races, God
established some additional adaptive abilities needed for survival in
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their specific life conditions. Different creative abilities that
humanity inherited at the time of creation, and different adaptive
attributes that we received after the Flood, became the source of
satisfaction for the fallen human nature and turned into our doom.
Those who were by their nature gifted for music, showed the
tendency to search for the satisfaction of their soul in music, while
those who were gifted with psychophysical powers, became inclined
towards violence, etc. Although these gifts should have the function
of giving love, they became the purpose in themselves, i.e. the
source of our satisfaction. Soon, God split one language into many,
in order to destroy the totalitarian regime of the Tower of Babylon,
and thus helped various families develop their spirit and lives, freely
and independently from each other. The period of a mutual lingual
and physical isolation and the independent development of various
human families and tribes, as well as the period of their adaptation
to the specific living conditions, resulted in the formation of
anthropological characteristics of several dozens of various
anthropological types. To each anthropological type, in that period,
belonged unique language family.
When the population on Earth increased, their intermixing began.
Many diverse branches of Noah’s descendants inherited different
sinful tendencies and temptations, which manifested in many ways
under a range of circumstances. That is why throughout the history
of humankind’s downfall, God kept calling the humankind to
repentance, which was an appropriate answer to human temptations.
When people had fallen into temptation of formalism and hypocrisy,
they got the message that criticized formalism and hypocrisy. When
they had fallen into temptation of undisguised anarchy and
barbarism, they got the message which revealed the emphasized
demands of God’s Law. However, people were rather rushing
towards delusions that represented their favorite sins as virtues, than
they were prone to listening and accepting the reprimands against
their sins. The need for justifying and excusing sins made them
prone to superstition and pseudo-religiousness. When people were
not willing to listen to the reasonable rebukes sent to them through
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words of His spiritual teachers and prophets, God exposed them, for
their own good, to those circumstances that should help them
become aware of their temptations, and provoke people to overcome
them. When people would show the spirit of pride, God would send
misfortunes and injustice to them in order to humiliate their pride
and to demonstrate His disapproval. When they had manifested
cowardly character, they were tempted to commit injustice to others
under the pressure of unjust authorities, which was the opportunity
for them to become aware of their weaknesses and to conquer them
through the temptation itself. Those who fall into hard temptations
are being encouraged by God to persevere until the day of final
victory by the following words: “Blessed is the man that endureth
temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life,
which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” (James 1:12)
“He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his
God: and he shall be my son.“ (Revelation 21:7) God has no reason
at all, to eternalize the principle of sinful living. A person who does
not serve to anybody and anything has no reason to live. The Holy
Scriptures explain that after the un-repented sinners are judged,
there will be neither sinners nor sin any more. To those who choose
the principle of unselfish kindness in spite of their sinful nature, God
promises that He will change their hearts by His supernatural
healing power, set them free from sin and demons, and fulfill their
hearts with love: „And I will pour upon you clean water, and you
shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you
from all your idols. And I will give you a new heart, and put a new
spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit in
the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my
commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.“ (Ezekiel
36:25-27) Since such people should be eternalized, God will raise
them to immortality at the Second Coming. In the Kingdom of God,
their abilities will reach their full brilliance without the temptation
of any misuse or return of sin, because they have already conquered
the temptations while being heavily tempted during their earthly
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lives. Their hearts will be filled with eternal love and gratitude for
the Lord since He was convincing them in so many ways of their
need for Him during their earthly life, for bringing them remorse for
their sins through the disclosure of His love, mercy and patience,
and for redeeming them from guilti and eternal death by His
sacrifice on the cross.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EVOLUTIONARY AND
CREATIONARY INTERPRETATIONS OF HUMANITY’S
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL
CHARACTERISTICS
We have seen that different human abilities in their
perversion (since they became the sources of satisfaction and the
purpose in themselves) resulted in various psychological types,
which astrologers ascribed to the certain zodiac signs. In an attempt
to explain the origin of diverse human abilities, their genuine
uncorrupted meaning and the causes of inner discontent that brings
to the degeneration of their functions, we can notice that one and the
same anthropological knowledge about humans, is interpreted in
different ways by evolutionists (the supporters of the Theory of
Evolution), and creationists (the supporters of Creationism).
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DERIVATION OF INNER DISCONTENT
EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATION OF THE ORIGIN OF
INNER DISCONTENT
The evolutionistic hypothesis on the origin of inner
discontent says that this discontent is a driving force necessary for
our struggle for survival. Those who were not motivated by
discontent to satisfy their existential needs, clearly had no other
motives to fulfill them, so they simply disappeared. The same
opinion pervades various interpretations of libido. According to
Sigmund Freud, libido represents a form of “sexual energy” which
needs to be satisfied, and if this need cannot be quenched, it
becomes the source of destruction. "The measure of unsatisfied
libido which the average human being can stand is limited."
(Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, pg
300). Freud believes that libido can be sublimated into different
motives that incite people to take many diverse activities.
"Sublimation is, as a matter of fact, only a special case of the
relation of sexual to non-sexual desires." (Ibid). Carl Gustav Jung
denotes a general mental energy as libido. The hypothesis that
springs from different theories on libido says that discontent is a
driving force, which makes people struggle for survival. However,
by all things considered, not only does that energy not contribute to
our existence, but directly imperils it. To take care of our existence,
it is enough that we are discontent with our mental notions,
sensations and feelings when they represent an expression of the
objective representation of reality (for example, pain, danger, fear).
There is no need to be driven by inner discontent on the level of
motivation (selfishness, concern, anger, depression, cowardice), as
we should be driven by the motive of love. When stimulated with
inner discontent, we do not think about the bare necessities. Instead,
we think about how to suffocate the awareness of our discontent
using different ways of satisfaction, even when it imperils our own
existential needs. The origin of every type of pathological behavior,
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of every kind of excessiveness and perversity, lies in discontent that
is woven into one’s motivation.
The motives of behavior that spring from our inner
discontent, disclaim the theory of evolution because they do not
bring us any evolutional advantage in our struggle for survival.
Instead they make our survival harder. Under the pressure of inner
discontent, we neither have the time nor will to behave in
accordance with our real existential needs. If the mechanism of
natural selection and evolution did form the characteristics of
humankind, then we would have never become sinful in the first
place.
CREATIONARY EXPLANATION OF INNER DISCONTENT
French scientist Blaise Pascal defined the religious
hypothesis on the origin of our inner discontent in simple words:
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which
cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator,
made known through Jesus." (Clarence H. Benson, Robert J.
Morgan, Exploring Theology, pg 320) The Holy Scriptures explain
a person’s discontent by their arrogance towards God, i.e. by their
attempt to achieve happiness and to fulfill the purpose of life
independent of God: „For my people have done two evils. They
have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to
themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.“
(Jeremiah 2:13) The most one can achieve independently of God is
the feeling of happiness, a sensual experience of happiness and a
mental notion about happiness, all of which can only suppress the
awareness of their inner discontent, while the inner discontent itself
remains within them, proving its existence in unchanged motivation.
The wise King Solomon says: „The just eateth and filleth his soul:
but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.“ (Proverbs 13:25)
Apostle John explains that sensual, emotional and mental
satisfactions are not the way to satisfy the yearnings of our souls:
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„For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the
concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the
Father but is of the world.“ (1 John 2:16) Jesus Christ says:
„Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that
shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.
But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of
water, springing up into life everlasting.“ (John 4:13-14)
PURPOSE OF DIFFERENT HUMAN ABILITIES
We are beings gifted with prominent psychophysical
abilities, which far exceed the needs of our bare existence. We are
capable of playing the violin, of inventing and creating, and of
changing our surrounding in accordance to our will. What is the
purpose of these particularly developed abilities? According to the
theory of evolution, the intellectual capabilities by which human
beings exceed all other living beings are the fruit of their uppermost
evolutionary development in their struggle for survival. Those who
were less intelligent and gifted with different intellectual abilities
did not survive.
Yet, is it true? Are the microorganisms indeed less capable
for survival, as they are on the lowest level of evolutionary
development, than the highly intelligent being who is on the very
top of this scale, and who is called „a human being“?
In the case of some global catastrophe, it is most likely that
the simplest organisms would survive, in spite of the fact that they
are the least developed living beings in the evolutionary scale. The
organisms that are in the so-called upper degree of evolutionary
development, would demonstrate least ability of survival under
unfavorable circumstances.
Besides, when we take a better look, in real life a man does
not use his special intellectual abilities for more successful struggle
for survival at the first place. Let us see what a man is thinking
about during the day or what he is dreaming about during the night.
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Is he thinking how to provide the existence or how to achieve
pleasure? Do his intellectual abilities help him lead a healthy and
long life, or they imperil his existence?
Then, what is the purpose of man´s abilities that make him
more advanced than other living beings, if it is not a more successful
existence, which the lower organisms achieve without the need for
some great wisdom or physical power?!
We are not created only to survive, but to fulfill the meaning
of our existence and life, and that meaning is to love, to create and
to respond to the needs of other living beings out of love. That is
why, beside existential needs, we are characterized by much larger
non-existential ones, with which we are endowed in order to fulfill
the meaning of life successfully.
However, the sense of our existential and non-existential
abilities is in the hands of our free will. No matter if that sense is
love or sin, the meaning of life itself is more important to us than
bare living. A generous person will show the willingness to
endanger their own life for the welfare of others in the same way as
a depraved, proud or evil person will show willingness to endanger
their own life for the accomplishment of their hedonistic, selfconceited or vindictive goals. If the meaning of our life is unselfish
love, then we will take care of our existence out of love, but we will
also, out of that same love, show readiness to endanger our
existential needs for the welfare of other people.
THE ORIGIN OF VARIOUS HUMAN ABILITIES
Whereas the evolutionists believe that our abilities arose
from the processes of natural selection and evolution, the
creationists think that God endowed us with those abilities which
were necessary for us to fulfill the purpose of our existence, and to
be capable of survival under various climate conditions in the PostDeluge world.
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According to the logic of the Theory of Evolution – in
African Blacks, out of spatial intelligence necessary for hunting, all
the other abilities that manifest as a talent for music, imagination,
etc, were also developed. By the logic of the Theory of Creation,
God adapted our creative abilities, which originally did not have an
existential function, to our existential needs, which meant that
African Blacks used the capabilities of spatial and kinesthetic
intelligence for their hunting skills, which would otherwise serve for
reaching a higher meaning of life, and their creative and artistic
expressions. The adaptation to living under the conditions of African
wilderness implies the capacity for intensive running. In order to
catch a wild animal or to run away from it if they are in danger,
African Blacks have various anatomical attributes that enable them
to endure the everyday stress of strenuous and fast running, without
any health consequences. They are capable of this due to specific
characteristics of their muscle tissue (the particular enzymes which
only they have), longer heel bone, prominent length of legs, bigger
slant of pelvis, the characteristic branches of all four arteries that
come out of aortic arch for head the upper extremities, etc. Living
under the conditions of African climate demands the adaptation to a
warm climate through the increased number of sweat glands,
through greater bodily surface accomplished by its extension, while
the protection of inner tissues from the harmful effects of ultraviolet
radiation is achieved by the prominent dark pigmentation.
As the African Blacks are suited for the warm African
climate by plenty of their psychophysical attributes, the
Mediterranids are suited for the Mediterranean climate, the Dinarids
are enabled for a mountain climate with its sharp temperature
extremes (cold nights, warm days; cold winters, warm summers),
and the representatives of the Yellow race are enabled for the
constantly cold polar climate.
Now we shall mention only some of the adaptive abilities for
the polar climate, such as stocky roundness and decreased number
of sweat glands, which have the purpose to reduce the loss of
warmth and moisture in conditions that are characterized by cold
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and dry air. In order to have eyes protected from the high reflection
of sunlight off the snow- covered surfaces, and from cold winds and
snow particles, they are small, narrow and deep-set. Beside a
psychological tendency to make food supplies, the representatives of
the Yellow race are also gifted with genetic inclination to obesity,
because the fat layers keep them from freezing and it represents the
energy reserve needed in times of food scarcity.
According to the Theory of Evolution, all these adaptive
abilities for different climate conditions arose from random
mutations and natural selection, whereas according to the Theory of
Creation, they originated due to God’s direct intervention, making a
man capable of survival under conditions for which he naturally,
otherwise, is not suited.
The evolutionists claim that modern men originated in
Africa, wherefrom they expanded to Asia and afterwards to other
continents. According to the Theory of Evolution, during this
process of scattering to all parts of the world, they were enabled for
survival in all climate conditions. However, such an opinion faces
several serious problems. Adaptive differences among the Blacks,
White and Yellow populations require a large number of selected
mutations, which were to cause the change of a significant number
of human genes. Let us assume that one and the only gene of 1000
nucleotides should change only a hundred of its nucleotides into
corresponding new nucleotides, in order to create one new gene,
which was to help us adapt to the new unfavorable living conditions.
Naturally, a miracle of creating a new race would need a
synchronous changing of hundreds of genes, but let us assume that
only 10% of one gene’s structure needed to be changed.
Furthermore, of course, let us keep on our minds the fact that a cell
always resists mutations in many ways, since they are usually
harmful. Therefore, how many mutations need to happen to the gene
in order to get one useful mutation that would bring a new adaptive
ability for an organism, needed for its survival in bad climate
conditions? The probability of replacing those hundred of
nucleotides with any other certain nucleotide is: (1000 x 999 x … x
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901) x (100 x 99 x 98 x 97 x 96 x … x 3x 2 x 1) =
63850.511926305.130236690.511142022.274281262.900693853.33
1776286.816221524.376994750.901948920.974351797.699894319.
420811933.446191797.592213357.065053890 (140 numbers). So,
the number of possibilities for a random replacement of a 100
certain nucleotides is 10140. If one single nucleotide can mutate into
three residual variants of the nucleotide, the number of possibilities
is 10615, which means that the probability to get the right gene with a
hundred nukleotide’s replacements is 10615. It is assumed that there
are 1070 elementary particles in space, so that it is illusory to expect
that the reproduction of humans on Earth could create 10615 bearers
of the result of the change needed in order to get at least one
appropriate gene’s mutation.
Since mutations are random and mostly inappropriate or
harmful, there would be many more unnecessary and bad mutations
while waiting for the ones that would be useful for creating the races
adapted to the specific living conditions. If we waited such a long
time for a random change of only 10% of one gene to happen in a
desirable direction, what could we expect to remain of the primary
structure of any other (neutral, for example) gene of the same
organism? Nothing! The enormous number of dysfunctional
mutations would erase every similarity between neutral genes of
primary and newly-evolved population. The process of evolution,
which supposedly endured for a long time, would have had to leave
the marks (mutations) in the neutral genes of different populations,
but it did not. Populations all over the world reveal very small or
even no differences in their neutral genes.
There was no enough time for the appropriate mutations to
occur. If random mutations left only negligible marks, then how can
we believe that there was time and opportunity for the appropriate
mutations to take place, which possibility of emergence was
basically infinitely times less?
Today’s living Cro-Magnons in Europe have the same
anthropological characteristics as the Cro-Magnon type whose
skeletons were discovered in Europe, and for which it was said that
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they were 30 000 years old. How is it possible that this type
preserved its anthropological and psychological identity, in spite of
continuous mixing with populations of different genetic origins? If
the Cro-Magnons are our ancestors, how is it possible that they
stopped evolving in some regions of the world, where they
preserved their archaic genetic markers and conserved the structures
of their neutral genes, while other populations continued to mutate
and to evolve? If we evolved from an African ancestor who was a
hunter, how can it be that only the bearers of the Nilo-Saharic
antigen HLA-A28 in Europe kept the elements of African physical
appearance and African psychology? It is possible because the
modern humankind did not originate from the African people, but it
developed simultaneously and independently of them. There is no
linguist evidence that other languages arose from the languages of
the African people, but there certainly are proofs that all those
languages developed independently, in parallel. Nowadays, in the
world there are several dozens of language families, which affirms
the Biblical account on the miracle of distribution of languages to
various families of humankind. Every language family originated
from its own ancient language and that is why it preserved its
original word-roots and the grammar principles that are
characteristic only for that language family. The fact that there is a
correlation between the distribution of language families and genetic
markers, affirms the Biblical account we mentioned above. Later on,
a separate anthropological type was formed from every human
family, gifted with special abilities, which helped its survival in
certain climate conditions.
THE BIBLE’S TEACHING ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF
AFRICAN BLACKS AND THEIR CLOSEST GENETIC
BROTHERS IN THE WORLD
According to the Holy Scriptures, the entire Post-Deluge
humankind originated from Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and
Japhethh. Noah’s son Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Phut and
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Canaan. In SDA Biblical commentary, we read: “Cush, or Kush, is
ancient Ethiopia, which was in classical times called Nubia. ... In
Egyptian inscriptions this land is called hsaK, in Assyrian
cuneiform texts, hKaK." In the Biblical Genesis, we read about
Cush’s descendants: „These are the generations of the sons of Noe:
Sem, Cham, and Japheth: and unto them sons were born after the
flood. ... And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and
Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.“
(Genesis 10:1,6-7) The famous Ethiopian queen of Sheba’s name
reveals her ancient origin from Cush’s son Saba, whose descendants
live in an area of Africa. The African tribe Sabaot, also known as
Elgon Maasai, preserved that ancient name in its own name. Talking
about the descendants of Cush’s son Saba, the Holy Scriptures says
that they have a tall stature: “Thus saith the Lord: The labour of
Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of
stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thine...” (Isaiah 45:14)
Moses uses the name of the land of Cush for the region of
Mesopotamia (Genesis 2:13). Unlike Cush’s son Seba who was the
ancestor of many African people, Cush’s son Nimrod was the ruler
of Mesopotamia. The Holy Scriptures disclose his pronounced gift
for hunting, which is also the characteristic of other Cush’s
descendants: „Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on
the earth. And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a
proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.”
(Genesis 10:8-9) Nimrod was known for building the Tower of
Babel: “And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach,
and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar. Out of that land
came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and
Chale. Resen also between Ninive and Chale: this is the great city.“
(Genesis 10:10-12)
According to Sumerian legend found in clay tables, the first
Post-Deluge dynasty was called the Kish dynasty. It started its reign
at the capitol Kish. The city with the same name exists today in Iraq.
It is interesting that, according to the Bible, in both areas where
Cush’s descendants live - the areas of Nilo-Saharan Africa and in
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Western Iran, there is a high presence of antigen HLA-A28, parallel
with a great presence of tall people. In the area of Western Iran,
among other tribes, population of Luri tribe is tallest. They are
considered to be descedants of ancient Kassites (descendants from
Cush) and Elamites (descendants from Elam):
"One of the major Iranian ethnic groups is Lur population,
inhabiting along the central and southern parts of Zagros
Chain Mountain. Their origin might come back to the time
before the migration of Indo-Europeans to Iran when other
groups called Kassites and Elamites have been living there.
The Kassites are said to be the native people of Luristan.
Their language was a non-Semitic non-Indo-European
language and it differed from the Elamite. The Kassites
overthrew the Babylon in 1595 BC and extended their lands
to the borders of Egypt and Anatolia. Their last king was
defeated by the Elamites in 1180. The remaining of the
Kassites subpopulation, who had managed to keep their own
identity, retreated back to the high mountains of Luristan,
where they became part of the Elamites and eventually the
Persian Empire." (Shirin Farjadiana and Abbas Ghaderi,
Iranian Lurs Genetic Diversity: An Anthropological View
Based on HLA Class II Profiles)
As mentioned earlier, HLA-A28 and greater height is more
common on South American continent.
In Patagonian legends, is there any trace of their origin from
Noah’s grandson, Ham’s son Cush? The Patagonian tribe Tehuelche
preserved a legend about a deity – creator called „Kooch“, which
might be a result of worshiping their real genetic forefather, Cush.
By their genetic structure, the closest antigens to antigen HLA-A28,
which corresponds to the Cushits, are A2, A10, A19 (A29, 31, 32,
33) that should correspond to other Ham’s sons: Mizraim, Phut and
Canaan, according to The Book of Genesis. Mizraim is the name of
the ancient Egypt. The skeletons of ancient Egyptians show the
features of the Mediterranean and dinarized Mediterranean
anthropological types. Ancient sources represent Phutites as the
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Pygmies. Genetics reveals their kinship with the Australian
Aborigines and with some populations of West Asia. The
Canaanites are known by the names of Canaan’s sons Chetteus,
Amorreus and Sineus. The Hattians inhabited Asia Minor and the
Middle East, the Amorrei settled in Middle East and Sumer, and the
Sinites are related to the Chinese, according to the Hebrew
teachings. They correspond to the Atlanto-Mediterranean
anthropological type in Europe and to the Sinid type in China.
GENETICS ABOUT THE BIBLICAL GENEALOGY OF
PEOPLE
Genetic analysis of the closeness of different anthropological
types does not affirm the evolutional hypothesis that from one
human population originate some other human population, and then
from it the third, etc. Furthermore, genetic closeness afirms parallel
existence of various branches of human family, in accordance with
the Biblical genealogy of people, which comes from Noah’s three
sons and their families.
Every anthropological type represents a certain branch of
Noah’s descendants or their mixture, dating from the period before
their migrations.
From Noah´s son Shem originated various Semitic peoples,
mostly in the Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa and South
Asia (India). From Noah´s son Ham originated various
Mediterranean peoples, Dinarians, and the majority of the African
and Australian Blacks. From Noah’s son Japheth sprung up mainly
the representatives of the Yellow race, but also the Nordids in
Europe and some anthropological types of Western and Southern
Africa.
Some branches of Noah’s descendants interbred even before
the formation of the anthropological types, and today they are mixed
to the greatest extent, so that in every geographical place in the
world we can notice they various mixture.
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Hence, the astrological types correspond to the temptations
of various branches of Noah’s descendants. Scorpio corresponds to
the descendants of Noah’s son Shem. Masculine fiery signs –
Sagittarius, Leo and Aries, along with Libra, correspond to Ham’s
descendants. Sagittarius corresponds to the Kushits, Leo to the
Canaanites, and Aries and Libra to Mizraim’s descendants. Gemini,
Cancer and Virgo correspond to the descendants of Japheth. Gemini
corresponds to the descendants of Japheth’s son Madai. Pisces
represents the compound of one branch of Mizraim’s descendants
and one branch of Japheth’s descendants. When the fiery signs,
which correspond by their character to Ham’s descendants, mix with
Japheth’s descendants, Sagittarius gets the features of Aquarius, Leo
gets the features of Taurus, and Aries gets the features of Capricorn.
We should not forget that every person is characterized by the
elements and tendencies of every zodiacal sign to a certain extent,
under the influence of life age, stressful situations and different
temptations.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASTROLOGY AND
RELIGION
Astrology is in the conflict with religion because it represents
the repressive influence of the astrological factor over human’s free
will. If God is love, then it is blasphemous and senseless to claim
that He would create a reasonable being that would not be able to
rule over itself, and that the unreasonable celestial bodies – which
are light-minutes, light-hours, light-days and light-years away,
would control its behavior. Our will must be free in order to enable
us to conquer temptations, i.e. to willingly choose or reject God’s
love.
Therefore, the belief in the astrological phenomenon is in
conflict with the religious principles of love, freedom and
responsibility. God’s character trait is love. God created us out of
love. And in love, there is no “must”. Love necessarily leads to
freedom, and freedom itself implies responsibility. Frightened of
facing life responsibilities, because we chose to reject love and
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accept sin, we try to justify our choice by saying that a basic
condition of our responsibility – the freedom of choice, has not been
fulfilled. So, in order to excuse ourselves, we consciously or
unconsciously, rush to believe in destiny, or in less drastic cases, we
want to justify our choice of sin, by calling upon the pressure of
some external factor over our will. Since the astrological factor is
not the source of our sins, trusting in astrology leads us to use our
will wrongly, even if we consciously have the intention of
overcoming the temptation.
HUMANITY’S NEED FOR SUPERSTITION
What would happen if we suffered various accidents and
misfortunes without having any superstition which could justify
them? Conscience and reason would easily raise awareness of
responsibility for our own motives and actions. However, we have
the right to reject that awareness if it interferes with our freedom of
choice.
The need for superstition represents our wish to get rid of the
responsibility for our actions. It reveals that we were not created to
simply accept misfortunes, but that our nature is to constantly reexamine ourselves and to try our best to remove the causes of our
trouble. Only when we try to silence the voice of conscience, which
calls upon re-examination character reform, do we try to seek for
excuses for our character weaknesses, or for troubles that are the
consequences of these weaknesses, in some outer cause we often
explain in a superstitious way. When solving a problem, conscious
and mature people proceed from themselves, reviewing the character
of their motives, intentions and actions, whereas immature people
are prone to search for the causes of their troubles outside of
themselves.
It doesn’t matter whether we shift responsibility for our
weaknesses and misfortunes in life to outer enemies, influence of
negative energy of others, negative „underground emissions”, our
genetics, or whether we simply call upon excuses we get from
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different superstitions: „Everything goes wrong for me because my
horoscope is bad!“, „Someone put a spell on me. I must provide a
protective talisman or a rosary, so that I can count enough prayers“,
„I got up on the wrong side of bed, that is why I’m having a bad
day!“, etc. An atheist will maybe try to justify their troubles by the
phenomenon of Murphy’s law, which, among other things, states
that „if anything can go wrong, it will”.
Of course, Murphy’s law states that such a principle won’t
function if we deliberately provoke events in order to scientifically
prove that it really is a principle. Even only a conditional
generalization of a phenomenon, or the attempt to derive a law from
it cannot explain the phenomenon itself. If something happens
(almost) every time, thus make us declare it as principle or law, then
it is clear that behind the events there is a reasonable being. As it is
unreasonable to believe that a dropped stone accidentally falls every
time to the ground, i.e. that the natural laws function only
accidentally, it is also unreasonable to believe that bad luck or
Murphy’s law exists by accident. Reason tells us that there is a
purpose behind every principle, and that there is a creator behind
every purpose. In the same way the „law of gravitation“ notion does
not clarify the phenomenon but only names it, so the notion
„Murphy’s law“ does not explain the phenomenon but just gives it
its name. Reasonable people will conclude that there is an intelligent
being – God, behind natural laws, and by the same token, they will
conclude that there is Satan behind various troubles and temptations
which happen to them .
But, whereas God instills trust and security in us by solid
norms of natural laws, Satan, hiding behind Murphy’s law, tries to
provoke our nature – in the segments which show our sinful
weakness, and fall into an even deeper sin. Satan disguises his
actions by ideas of Murphy’s law and other forms of superstition, in
order to avoid the expose of his actions, and to prevent us from
awakening and repenting for the weaknesses that enabled him to
rule over us. Of course, we are able to react in a mature way to
various troubles we encounter in life, if we regularly re-examine our
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reactions to stress and if we repent for the weaknesses we become
aware of, which are provoked in times of trouble. Yet, even the
awareness that victory over life temptations depends on us is not
resistant on more subtle superstitions, which lead us to use our will
in a wrong way, repenting for the wrong thing. We mostly think
about repentance when we are in trouble. Religion claims that
troubles are most commonly the consequence of an un-repented sin
that makes Satan gain the hold of our souls, and thus induce us to
fall into an even greater sin or discouragement through difficult
temptations (tragedies). In order to prevent us from comprehending
the true nature of our temptations and misfortunes, Satan attacks us
with temptations and troubles at the right time and in the right way
which will make us struggle in the wrong field. Superstitious people
will believe that a black cat that crossed their path is guilty for their
troubles. Those who practice meditation will think that the source of
their misfortune lies in telling the name of their own mantra to
another person in spite of that prohibition, and instead of reinspecting the motives for practicing meditation (and these are the
attempts to remove unpleasant consequences of sinful feelings by
magic), they blame themselves for the act that has nothing to do
with the cause of their problems. Religious people will blame
themselves for their troubles, because they were working on a red
letter day (i.e. day when one is not meant to work) in the church
calendar or because they did not repeat their prayer enough, but not
because they are otherwise driven by bad motives in life. An
astrologer will think that the stars are responsible for their problems,
and so on.
BIBLICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ASTROLOGICAL
PHENOMENON
Is Martin Luther right when he says that „those who watch the stars
denote these God’s creations as if they are dangerous things, as if
they overshadow the Earth and cause all the troubles“?
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Astrologers believe that crime rates increase around the time
of the full moon. There is a widespread belief among many nations
that the full moon is the source of mental disorders. In the MerriamWebster dictionary we read that the meaning of English word
„lunatic“, besides the meaning of „a person who is insane or of
unsound mind”, also has the meaning of „intermittent insanity once
believed to be related to phases of the moon“. Analogical to the
meaning of the English word „lunatic“, Greek word „seleniazomai“
means „to be moon-struck or lunatic”. That word was used in the
New Testament as the denotation of a sick young man whom his
father brought to Christ and his disciples to cure him:
“And when he was come to the multitude, there came to him
a man falling down on his knees before him saying: Lord,
have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much:
for he falleth often into the fire, and often into the water.“
(Matthew 17:14-15)
Can we explain such a phenomenon in a scientific way, and
not be deluded by scientific methodology? If we did not know any
other factor, we would naturally conclude that the full moon was
guilty for the young man’s illness that it made him jump into fire or
water. Reliance on the scientific methods of measurement and
experiment would lead us straight to the mistake of blaming the
stars in the sky for evil on Earth. Such an approach can even make
religious people naturally conclude that God Himself is guilty for
evil, since He allowed unjust influences over our psyche.
Let us observe Christ’s explanation of the astrological
phenomenon. Answering to the comment which insinuated that God
made a mistake in creation of this world when he let celestial bodies
rule over our will, instead to making us responsible for our actions,
Christ offered no repentance or apology. The Holy Scriptures have a
very simple explanation of this aspect of the astrological
phenomenon, so we read:
„And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and
the child was cured from that hour.“ (Matthew 17:18)
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Now we understand that a demon led the young man to try to
commit a suicide exactly in the time which could be connected with
the corresponding phases of the moon, so that responsibility for evil
could be shifted from us to an astrological element. It also becomes
clear why the belief that the moon is guilty for series of criminal
acts, various mental disorders and psychological phenomena, is
widespread among the nations of the world, and how it got so
widespread. Satan himself has the power to induce people to
committing certain actions in accordance with positions of celestial
bodies, in order to his hold over his victims, and to provoke them
into thinking that the cause of their problems is in the influence of
celestial bodies, rather than themselves.
If this is true, then Satan also has the power to adjust
someone’s birth with a corresponding zodiacal sign, and then to
slow down or to speed up one’s moment of birth in order to arrange
a certain ascendant! Finally, if this is the truth, it could be checked
by scientific methodology.
Every anthropological type has the same chance to be born
on any date during the year. There is no natural reason for
individuals belonging to one and the same human population with
the specific genes corresponding to their anthropological origin, to
show greater tendency to be born on a certain date, in relation to
individuals of different anthropological origins. If we would
recognize the principle that all people of a certain origin are really
born under the corresponding sign and ascendant, then we would
have proof of an effect of some new, unknown to us, natural laws,
which explain the astrological phenomenon. Nevertheless, if we
notice that a certain anthropological type is more commonly born
under the zodiacal sign that correspond to it than under others
zodiacal signs, then that would be the argument that some
reasonable being (not an accident nor a natural law) really has the
power to influence the time of our birth in a definite number of
cases, in order to lead us into belief that our life is determined by the
position of celestial bodies. We still do not know in which
chromosome, or in which place of the chromosome, are the main
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genes located – those which mostly exert the influence on
development of our abilities we will be prone to misuse during our
life, the attributes that are the pure essence of anthropological types,
as indicated in our context. That restrains us from accurately
establishing the rate of representation of the most important genes in
different zodiacal signs, but we still can establish the presence of
those genes whose phenotype data is available to us, and in our case
these are the blood groups ABO (chromosome 9) and RH factor
(chromosome 1).
Data from the Institute of Blood Transfusion in Belgrade are
obtained on the basis of analysis of 324026 (238800 male and 85226
female) examinees. The curve that shows a percentage of
representation of different blood types during the whole year should
be straight as blood type does not depend upon the time of
conception, or vice versa. If only a few hundred people were
analyzed, then there would be a strong possibility to get an incorrect
curve due to the factor of accident, but a huge number of examinees
– over three hundred thousand people, should have been enough to
eliminate this factor and the curve should have been absolutely flat.
However, the research demonstrated that the curve was not flat and
that there was a discrepancy against the expected average. People
with one blood type were born in percentage which was different
from month to month, in relation to people of some other blood
type.
It is interesting that the curve had the same shape even when
the examined population was divided into two groups, of which the
first one consisted of the persons who were born in uneven years,
and the second one consisted of the persons born in even years. Yet,
when the comparative analysis of differences between the sexes was
done, the shape of the curve changed.
When we know which blood type corresponds to which
anthropological type, then this discrepancy from the flat line reveals
its deeper meaning. The blood type A is the oldest blood type, and
this is why it characterizes populations of different and mutually
distant genetic origin (the Nordids, the Finno-Ugric and the original
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Semites). The blood type O is typical for the nations of closer
genetic origin, with an increased level of male hormones (Dinarids,
all branches of Mediterranids and Cro-Magnons), but also the
mediterranized Semites (Arabs, Jews and Dravids). Those
populations which originated by interbreeding of various
anthropological types in ancient history, today can be characterized
by predomination of any blood type, due to genetic drift (for
example, American Indians are mostly characterized by the blood
type O due to their mixing with the Dinaride-Mediterranean
population and to genetic drift which resulted in an accidental loss
of other blood groups).
Unlike the blood types of which every one is typical for
several different populations, the blood type B exclusively comes
from the Mongols. Thus, that blood type is best used when
determining the relationship between someone’s zodiacal sign and
their genetic origin. Astrologers believe that a zodiacal sign is often
inherited from one of the parents, and a ascendant from the other. If
that experience really is the consequence of Satan’s interference by
adjusting the corresponding zodiacal sign and ascendant, in order to
make us search for excuses of our character weaknesses in the stars
and give up of responsible governance over ourselves, we will be
able to define the correlation. As blood type B corresponds to
Mongols who have the psychophysical attributes of Cancer, and if
Satan does have the power to affect the time of their birth, we expect
persons with the blood type B to be born more often under the sign
of Cancer than under any other zodiacal signs.
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Let us notice the obvious percentage increase of the number
of persons born with the blood type B during the period which
corresponds to the zodiacal sign of Cancer (the second part of June
and the first part of July, the fourth sign of Zodiac). Since Capricorn
represents the mixture of Aries (Dinarids) and Cancer (Mongols), it
is clear why the persons born under the zodiacal sign of Capricorn,
right after Cancer, are characterized by the greatest representation of
the blood type B. The analysis of the differences between the sexes
showed that men with blood type B were more frequently born
under the zodiacal sign of Capricorn than under the sign of Cancer,
which was logical since Cancer is a feminine sign and Capricorn
represents the characteristics of Cancer with emphasized masculine
attributes, due to its mixing with Aries (Dinarids). The least number
of persons with blood type B were born under the signs of Virgo and
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Gemini, which was understandable if we kept in mind that Virgo
(Alpids) are emotionally cold, and that Gemini (Nordids) relied
more on reason than on feelings.
Such correlations affirms the religious explanation of the
astrological phenomenon, which means that the functioning of socalled astrological factor is not caused by the influence of celestial
bodies on humanity, but by Satan who has the power to match the
moment of birth of a person with a corresponding genetic origin,
with the corresponding zodiacal sign. Satan knows that the
temptations of character are inherited from parents and by his
intervention he tries to make the impression that they depend on the
stars instead of heritage. He leads people to sin at the moment and in
the way which will help them justify their actions by calling upon
the astrological element.
Sometimes Satan adjusts our birth with the zodiacal sign
which does not correspond to our inherited character features and
then leads us to fall into its sins. Eventually, he shows the stars of
that zodiacal sign’s constellation to the person, as if they are
responsible for their collapse and troubles. Satan is capable of
influencing events on Earth; he also has the ways of exposing his
plans through the mouths of various mediums (prophets, visionaries,
fortune tellers, radiesthesists). He convinces people that there exists
destiny which cannot be avoided, except if they take some
meaningless actions which will distract them from their real spiritual
fight and cause them struggle on the wrong fields: most commonly,
to perform some magic or religious rituals which have nothing to do
with repentance for those sins that made them the victims of Satan’s
authority and power. Like the most skilful magician, he deceives
millions of people and misleads them from the right path.
Now we understand why astrologers even today interpret the
influence of the astrological factor in the same way as in ancient
times, when they believed that the planets were divine beings.
Irrespective of whether their acts have a form of science, modern
astrologers – on the basis of their calculations, predict such events in
our destiny which cannot be the fruit of some natural law’s
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influences, but only the result of the influence of reasonable and
powerful beings, as Satan and his demons are.
To immoral human hearts it does not seem strange to believe
that unreasonable celestial constellations have the power to create
events on Earth as if they are conscious beings, but it is strange to
them to think that such a power can be possessed by one conscious
and powerful being – Lucifer, whom Christ called the ruler of this
world. They do not feel odd when they believe in human’s
telepathic, bio-energetic and psychokinetic powers, but they feel odd
to think that such a power of influence on our thoughts and actions,
along with the healing abilities and the power to affect the events on
Earth, Satan possesses.
CLAIRVOYANCE AND PROPHECY
It is not rare to meet people who reasonably refuse to trust in
astrology, but who admit that it largely works in their lives and that
the events predicted by their natal chart are really happening. We
have similar experience with people who encountered different
forms of clairvoyance and prophecy. For instance, a young man
claims: “I principally do not believe in coffee cup reading, because
it does not make sense that someone can tell my past and future in
this way, but I cannot lie and say that this woman had not guessed
my past exactly and foretold future events, which really took place
after we had met!” Regardless of whether the experience of
clairvoyance and prophecy takes the form of pagan superstition,
spiritualism, science or religion, any sensible and truth-loving
person has to wonder about their origin.
Parapsychological explanation of clairvoyance flatters
human vanity and desire for power, because in it they see hidden
forces of human mind, which have the power to know what is
happening in some other place where the individual is not present.
While the pendulum is swinging back and forth, or the person is
reading from a coffee cup interpreting the bottom, their attention,
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the same as with a magic trick, is diverted from the true source of
supernatural ability – from satanic inspiration, which is swinging the
arm or interpreting coffee stains. Nevertheless, in some cases a true
origin of such a phenomenon can be obvious. One reader published
a letter titled “Someone inside of me” in Secrets magazine:
“It happened about two years ago. I was in the third year of
high school. That day the classes were held in the afternoon.
During one of the breaks between classes, I remained at my
desk in order to make arrangements about an outing with a
few friends. Our planning was normal and quiet until it
happened to me. In that moment I had a feeling as if
someone stepped into my body and merged with me. Then I
got so cold and was not aware of what was happening.
Wherever I looked I felt as if someone was looking through
my eyes too… I told my friends that something was wrong
with me, that something odd was happening to my body, as
if there was another being inside of me. They started
laughing because they thought I was joking. Nevertheless, I
got up and started walking across the classroom. I felt as if I
did not touch the ground. As if I was floating. The feeling
was both nice and ugly. Ugly – because the whole thing
bothered me. I had buzzing in my ears and felt
uncomfortable and nice at the same time. I felt like I was
dreaming, but I was completely awake. I started talking to
myself: “Get out of me!”, “This is so disturbing!” until I
found myself yelling and jumping all over the classroom. My
friends just stood there watching me. They were completely
confused, but I was even more so. I went to the window and
looked down the street. Since the street was known for
frequent car accidents, for a moment I thought (I did not
know why) that it had been a while since the last accident. It
was at that moment that the accident happened. I sat back at
my desk and explained to my best friend what was going on,
that I did not know what was happening to me, that I felt as
if I was dreaming. Then, without thinking, I started saying
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things that I could not comprehend why I was saying them.
Everything I thought of came true at the very moment I
thought of it. The being inside of me made me think those
thoughts and utter those meaningless words. I wanted it out
of me as soon as possible… It (finally) left me after about
two hours. I felt a little dizzy and then it was gone. I could
not believe it happened to me, and then, in that single
moment, it just – ‘vanished’.”
Manifestation of the same demonic force was revealed in the
Gospel, in the description of the encounter of Apostle Paul and a
clairvoyant person:
“And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain girl
having a pythonical spirit met us, who brought to her masters
much gain by divining. A pythonical spirit... That is, a spirit
pretending to divine, and tell fortunes. This same following
Paul and us, cried out, saying: These men are the servants of
the Most High God, who preach unto you the way of
salvation. And this she did many days. But Paul being
grieved, turned and said to the spirit: I command thee, in the
name of Jesus Christ, to go from her. And he went out the
same hour.“ (Acts 16:16-18)
Let us observe how this slave possessed by demonic spirit
told the truth about the servants of the God almighty before her, but
in doing so she wrongly presented the truth about herself and her
psychic spirit, giving a wrong impression that her inspiration had the
same spiritual origin as Apostle Paul’s. Today we can meet
characters who present themselves as Christians, but they feed off of
the Gospel in order to influence pious people, but the spirit and
character they promote is quite the opposite from the spirit and
character of the Gospel. For those who successfully foretell future,
but advocate the principles contrary to truth and justice, the Holy
Testament reveals that the truthfulness of their predictions is no
proof of their being inspiration by God’s Spirit:
“If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams,
and giveth thee a sign or a wonder. And the sign or the wonder
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come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after
other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou
shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of
dreams.” (Deuteronomy 13:1-4)
In foretelling of future events, as well as astrological
experiences, Satan as “the god of this world”, as Apostle Paul
referred to him, has a great power to realize his plans previously
conveyed through his mediums in the form of prophecies, and thus
create an illusion of knowing the future. Of course, if there is a God,
it is realistic to think that He himself will reveal his warnings and
plans to humankind, and endow his servants with the gift of
prophecy when there are real needs of other people which cannot be
revealed otherwise (in order to help them), but we should bear in
mind that Satan himself has the power to imitate this gift, with
entirely different function, of course – with the intention to respond
to our sinful and self-righteous needs. Unlike divine revelations
which most often represent warnings of a kind, or calls for
repentance in order to avoid an imminent disaster, satanic mediums
mostly speak of the future as unchangeable destiny in order to
achieve the opposite goal and so discourage us in our spiritual
struggle and victory, or they present us with future in light of false
optimism to make us careless and liberate us from the awareness of
our personal responsibility.
WHAT DOES THE SUCCESS OF WILL DEPEND ON?
Many people who were predicted to have an evil fate by
astrologers and fortunetellers tried to avoid it by striking attempts of
their own will, but with no success. Does it still mean that there is a
destiny? No, but the problem lies in the fact that they used their will
in the wrong way, without questioning the motives of their hearts
and truly repenting for their sins. They tried to avoid their fate
technically, not spiritually. They wanted to solve their problems just
so they could continue to lead their sinful and useless lives which
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serve neither for the glory of God, nor the benefit of other people. In
this state of un-repentance, God could not help them without them
abusing this help. Yet, there are quite the opposite examples, when
people responded with repentance to the prophecies of evil fate and
were saved from the evil fate itself by God’s intervention.
A young man was invited to ‘the summoning of ghosts’. At
first he was reluctant to accept the invitation because he had heard
that demons appeared during such sessions and imitated the spirits
of the dead. But after being called a ‘coward’ by his friends, it
fueled vanity in him, so he decided to attend. He intended to observe
the session from the corner, without direct participation. During the
session, ‘communication’ with ‘the soul of the dead’ was
established. And then, to the surprise of all the present, ‘the ghost’
spoke to the young man standing aside. Moving over the table, the
glass wrote: “Dejan will die in a car accident!” There was dead
silence. Everybody looked towards Dejan. A girl burst into histerical
laughter. Dejan was horrified because he felt the shadow of death
coming over him. Scenes of his life, sins that made him lose God’s
approval and protection came before his eyes. He thought that there
still might be a hope that God would forgive him his sins and save
him from death. Under the heavy pressure of discouragement telling
him that he was too late with his repentance, he went home, got on
his knees and confessed his sins before God, begging for mercy and
liberation from imminent death. When he opened the Holy
Testament, his eyes were fixed to the following words: "Behold, the
eye of the Lord is on them that fear him, on them that hope in his
mercy; to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in
famine." (Psalm 33:18-19)
After a few days Dejan went to the swimming pool near
Smederevo, town where he lived, with his friends. That evening,
after a pleasant afternoon, he and his friends hitchhiked in order to
go back to town. Soon a car pulled over. There was enough room for
him and his friends in the car, but not so for his friend whom he had
met just before the car stopped. Dejan decided to stay and continue
hitchhiking with his friend, and his friends took the drive to
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Smederevo. Soon Dejan and his friend decided to walk to the town.
After twenty or thirty minutes they witnessed the sight which took
their breath away. The smashed car with Dejan’s friends and the
driver all dead laid just off the road. One seat in the car remained
empty. It was Dejan’s seat.
MAGIC RITUALS
It is just for people to find their way out of destiny, that is, to
be liberated from the rule of the satanic force over their own self, in
the case they truly repent for the sins that made them fall as Satan’s
prey, not when they make a gesture with their hand, utters some
words, or performs some other magic ritual which does not involve
the inner reform of their spirit. Whenever one intends to perform a
magic ritual, that is, an action they expect will help them achieve a
goal in a supernatural way, their own conscience makes them aware
of their injustice, and their common sense makes them aware of the
meaninglessness of such an action. Such an action may take the
form of meditation. In Meditation by Sri Chinmoy we read about a
remark of a student compelled by their conscience and a reply of the
spiritual teacher who suffocates the voice of conscience:
"Question:
When I try to meditate, there is something that holds me
back.
Answer:
The thing that holds you back is fear. If you want the wealth
which is deep inside you, then you have to dive within
bravely. Only if you have inner courage can you receive the
inner wealth. Fear of the unknown and the unknowable
prevents you from diving deep within. ... The vastness of
truth will never harm you. It will only embrace and fulfil
you." (Sri Chinmoy, Meditation, pg 126)
Magic rituals, rites and actions may take different forms.
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In case of educated people, they have a scientific form – for
instance, by sitting in the center of an ‘energy’ source which will
give them supernatural strength, or while holding hands under
gushing water, when the negative energy seemingly leaves their
body. Such phenomena may take the form of breathing exercises,
which are not bad in themselves, but may become a trap when one
starts seeking their spiritual satisfaction in them, as much as eating
tasty food is not bad in itself, until one starts seeking satisfaction in
this act. With people who lack conscience but are honest, the act of
will which serves to achieve a goal may take a conscious and open
satanistic form – for instance, through the summoning of Satan in
order to give one knowledge, power or healing. Those with sensitive
and hypocritical conscience cannot do so and ask for evil such a
conscious and open way, so their deception often takes the form of
religion. They seek satisfaction in religious sacraments they attribute
mystical and superstitious meaning to. When such religiousness
takes its tragic toll, the believer will tend to blame their spiritual
downfall on their own incautiousness, for letting the communion
bread accidentally drop out of their mouth by chewing gum or by
using a toothbrush, believing that in this way they dropped a part of
God out of their body:
SHOULD WE BRUSH OUR TEETH AFTER TAKING HOLY
COMMUNION?
After taking Holy Communion teeth should not be brushed out of
practical reason for the whole day, so that a particle of Holy
Secrets, which might get stuck in a tooth or between teeth, is not
washed and spat out with toothpaste.
SHOULD WE TAKE OFF OUR CROSS DURING BATHING OR
SHOULD WE BATHE WITH IT ON?
Taking off the cross is not recommended, since one may die after
doing so, and may also be spellbound (since they are not
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protected).” (Advise me, father! – Replies of the priests and spiritualists
to common doubts in everyday Christian and church life, Svetigora, pg
20-21)
One must deny commonsense analyses of their motives and
actions to agree to such unjust and meaningless techniques to solve
their problems. The neglected use of common sense is then
compensated by irrational reference to authorities, experience,
emotions, miracles, supernatural events whose purpose is to deceive
and calm one’s guilty conscience. And miracles (strong elevated
emotions, manifestations of supernatural power and healing, etc.),
which will be used by Satan himself to bless meaningless actions,
will by no means be lacking.
THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF MIRACLES
Although one would naturally think that miracles in religion
function as proofs of righteousness of a certain belief, according to
the Holy Testament, this is not their true function, because Satan
himself has the power to make them. For those who have done
miracles in the name of Jesus Christ, but violated demands of God’s
law, Christ said that he had never known them: “Many will say to
me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and
cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from
me, you that work iniquity.“ (Matthew 7:22-23) Let us pay attention
to Christ’s concept of lawlessness which is typical of those who did
miracles in the name of Christ, and for whom Christ said he had
never known them. One’s attitude towards God’s law is very
important, for God’s law is the only criterion for discerning good
from evil: “Love therefore is the fulfilling of the law.” (Romans
13:10), and “Sin is iniquity.” (1 John 3:4). As a criterion of good
and evil – God’s law is revealed to every person through their
common sense and conscience, regardless of whether they are
religious or not, because every person when tempted makes the
choice between good and evil. “For there is no respect of persons
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with God. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the
doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, who have
not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these,
having not the law, are a law to themselves. Who show the work of
the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to
them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also
defending one another. In the day when God shall judge the secrets
of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.“ (Romans 2:11-16)
The Holy Testament reveals that God’s law will be particularly
disregarded in the period preceeding Christ’s Second Coming:
"Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people, and
because lawlessness will increase, the love of many people will
grow cold." (Matthew 24:11-12) If the temptation of the world is
breaking of God’s law (the Ten Commandments), then the answer to
the temptation of such world is the truth about God’s law. However,
the false spiritual prophesies of the modern age, submissive to
human hedonism, actually advocate the illusion that by dying on the
cross of Golgotha Christ cancelled God’s law. Such a false spiritual
reformation of the modern age preaches God’s love in the spirit of
the Eastern concept of love. Love is taken as a pleasant emotion
which satisfies human selfishness, not a behavioral motive which
forces one to act in accordance with God’s Ten Commandments. As
behind these pleasant emotions un-devoted hearts lie, the conscience
of such people is not clear, so they fear God’s law and God’s justice,
because they are subject to their damnation. Due to their guilty
conscience they are afraid of using the concept of sin and guilt, and
deprive the notion of God in their minds of the attribute of
righteousness. Since their conscience is not clear they have a strong
need to use their emotions and various miracles which follow them
throughout their lives to prove to themselves that they are in peace
with God. Unlike them, those who really lead their lives with pure
conscience have no need for any proofs and other means to reassure
themselves they are on the right path and in peace with God. They
are pleased with simple faith in God, His mercy and His salvation
from sin.
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If we deal with astrological calculations in order to check the
extent of our rise above their influence, and thus find the proof of
the successful and mature use of our will, we can lead ourselves into
temptation of self-delusion, because Satan himself has the power to
inspire us to commit actions which differ from astrological
predictions, in order to assure us that we have taken the right path
and seemingly left our destiny, that is, his plan for us. One who is
truly on the right path will not need to prove that they are on the
right path, just like a healthy person does not need to yell “Oh, how
well are my kidneys and other internal organs performing!” They
will not be aware of their internal organs if they are healthy. If they
are not satisfied with simple trust in God and His promises of mercy
with pure conscience, it means that they are still unrepentant in their
hearts. Only the guilty ones have the need to feel their own
righteousness.
The whole system of pseudo-religion has the purpose to
provide people with a feeling of certainty in salvation which calms
their guilty conscience. However, if they truly repented for their
sins, they would have pure conscience and there would be no need
for a pseudo-religious system. False religious experience releases
people not of their sin, but the responsibility for their sins, so that is
the reason why the research done in our country and throughout the
world reveals that on average, religious people are worse (more
prone to conflicts, etc.) than those who openly declare themselves as
atheists.
Beside the function of self-justification, miracles may also be
an answer to the needs of people with a strong desire for power.
Satan has the power to make healing miracles, mostly by removing
the symptoms of the disease he himself caused to happen. His
supernatural miracles of healing may take the form of religion for
those who are believers, then the form of science (bioenergy) for
those who are atheists, and may take no form when done by those
who openly admit they are satanists and that Satan himself gives
them the power to heal, knowledge, influence, power, etc. The only
way to verify the origin of the supernatural experience itself lies in
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the sensible analysis of its meaning, not by referring to own
experiences and emotions. “Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence
shall preserve thee that thou mayst be delivered from the evil way.“
(Proverbs 2:11-12) Relying on one’s own impressions and emotions
is not recommended in the Holy Testament: “He that boasteth and
puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the
Lord, shall be healed.“ “A fool receiveth not the words of prudence:
unless thou say those things which are in his heart.“ (Proverbs
28:26;18:2) When we realize, by rational analysis, that a miracle
strives to compensate our need for a responsible re-examination of
the righteousness of our own spiritual experience, or the
righteousness of a certain belief, then we can be sure the miracle
does not come from God.
HOW TO KEEP ONESELF FROM ASTROLOGICAL AND
RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION?
No matter how absurd it may seem at first, without a true
divine revelation addressed to our reason, our limitation with our
own experience and scientific methodology may be the source of
our delusion with false religious experience.
The greatest delusion an atheist can fall for is their
temptation to become religious based on the indisputable arguments
of their own experience, instead of basing it on their voluntary
choice of will, and reasonable and responsible knowledge of God’s
character. When their experience confronts them with indisputable
signs of the supernatural, many will believe in the divine nature of
such an experience, and by this miracle be forced to become
religious in the wrong way and out of the wrong motives. The Bible
speaks about the “Lawless one” who will appear just before the end
of the world and create miracles to deceive people:
“And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord
Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy
with the brightness of his coming: him whose coming is
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according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and
lying wonders: therefore God shall send them the operation
of error, to believe lying, that all may be judged who have
not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.“ (2
Thessalonians 2:9-11)
The Bible reveals that Satan presents himself as the ’angel of
the light’ (2 Corinthians 11:14) and that he will be allowed to make
great miracles right before the end of the world: “And he did great
signs, so that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the
earth, in the sight of men. And he seduced them that dwell on the
earth...” (Revelation 13:13-14) When asked about his second
coming, Jesus Christ said to his disciples: “Then if any man shall
say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him. For there
shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show great signs
and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.”
(Matthew 24:23-24) All those who blindly rely on the principle to
believe only in what they can see, will believe in false Christ –
Antichrist or the Lawless One, and false prophets. Those who are
not willing to believe in God based on the sensible revelation of His
supreme character of love, will be tempted and forced by sensual
proofs to believe in Antichrist, whose appearance and miracles will
be scientifically and empirically indisputable. Life in accordance
with truth is what keeps us from delusions. If we live in conflict
with our reason and conscience, the truth bothers us, and delusion
becomes a need of our guilty conscience, for we want to justify our
motives and actions as righteous before our own conscience.
THE ASTROLOGICAL TYPES AND MANIPULATION
As long as we govern ourselves responsibly we cannot be
manipulated. But when we give up the responsibility to govern
ourselves sensibly and responsibly, the weaknesses of our character
naturally start governing us. And as long as we are governed by
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character weaknesses, external influences may also govern us
through these undefeated weaknesses.
As the foundation of our responsible control over our own
selves is based upon our common sense, conscience and will, the
foundation of manipulation over other people is based on their
refusal to use their mind (mindlessness), on the manipulation over
their guilty conscience (guilt) and the manipulation over their
(sinful) driving motives.
We will use the following analysis to show that, as long as
we can recognize the traits of any Zodiac sign in ourselves, we will
be the victim of manipulation through these traits, because the traits
of Zodiac signs are human weaknesses presented in positive light by
astrology, in order to prevent us from fighting them.
MANIPULATION BY MOTIVES
The Scorpio type can easily be manipulated through their
sensual weaknesses, but also through their suspicion. Fiery signs of
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, along with Libra, can be manipulated
through their vanity; Aries through their pride, Leo through their
desire for power, Sagittarius through their arrogant independence,
and Libra by bragging and flattering them. The Virgo type can be
manipulated through fear and suspicion. Cancer and Pisces can be
manipulated by emotions which satisfy their selfish sentimentality,
and Gemini can be consciously manipulated through their
exploitation.
MANIPULATION BY MINDLESSNESS
Those who are moved by ill motives are naturally afraid to
use their reason, because the reason would unveil their behavioral
motives as meaningless, and lead him into conflict with their own
conscience, which would ask them to repent and reform. Therefore,
they are prone to deny their common sense, and rely on something
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or someone else who will think and decide instead of themselves;
whether it be authority (the temptation typical of Virgo, Cancer,
Pisces), views and opinions of the majority (Libra, Pisces), the
system of rules (recipes) for conduct (Virgo, Scorpio, Pisces), the
voice of their huge Ego (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), or their own
emotions (Cancer, Pisces). Gemini is the only one of all types who
cannot be manipulated through mind (delusion), for they are mostly
governed by common sense.
MANIPULATION BY GUILT
Submission of will to ill motives results in guilty conscience,
that is, the feeling of guilt. Therefore, this allows manipulation by
influences which awaken the feeling of guilt, or the ones which
liberates from the feeling of guilt. The Virgo type can be most easily
manipulated by the feeling of guilt, followed by Scorpio. Both types
can develop tendency towards masochism, which can also make
them suitable for adequate sort of manipulation. The Cancer and
Aries types cannot confront the healthy awareness of their own
responsibility, let alone guilt. The former rejects the pressure in
order to maintain their pleasant emotions, while the latter does not
want to ruin the imaginary notion of their own value in their eyes, so
the manipulation by guilt does not work in these cases. Aries feel no
guilt because they cannot comprehend of being guilty of something.
Instead of themselves, others are to blame. Leo, Sagittarius and
Libra are similar to Aries. The psychological types of Cancer, Pisces
and Gemini can be manipulated by offering psychological
satisfaction for their guilty conscience through pleasant emotions. If
they are religious, it can be done by experiencing the atmosphere of
a spiritual temple, or through meditation and arousal of pleasant
emotions which suffocate awareness of their own responsibility, and
if they are atheists, the same effects can be accomplished by alcohol,
narcotics, abuse of music, etc. The Pisces type tends to suffocate
guilt by arousing the feelings of self-pity. The sources of their
satisfaction are the means for manipulation over them.
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When people beat their own weaknesses, then there is
nothing for them to be manipulated through, nor do they have guilty
conscience through which they could be manipulated, nor are they
afraid to use their reason, so they are not prone to the delusions of
mind. When one loses all similarities with any of the Zodiac signs,
that one cannot be manipulated anymore.
WHY CAN A MATURE SPIRITUAL PERSON NOT
RECOGNIZE THE ATTRIBUTES OF THEIR SPIRITUAL
EXPERIENCE AND CHARACTER IN HOROSCOPE?
Can a person with authentic spiritual experience recognize
themselves in horoscope? Can a person who responds maturely to
everyday life temptations recognize themselves in various traits of
the Zodiac signs?
SCORPIO
The Scorpio type is vengeful and the Holy Testament
forbids vengeance: “Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me:
I will render to every one according to his work.“ (Proverbs 24:29)
No one has the right to take revenge by themselves; according to the
Holy Testament, justice is in hands of civil authorities* (Fusnota: In
ancient Israel, the criminal Law book stated the principle of justice
“eye for an eye” to be just) or God himself. The Scorpio type feels
their fanatic readiness to sacrifice their life for their religious goals
is a solid sign of their righteousness before God. However,
according to the Bible, the quality of motives which move us is
more important than the intensity of our readiness itself: “And if I
give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body
to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.“ (1
Corinthians 13:3) Also, the Scorpio type is prone towards sensual
pleasures, whereas the Bible considers blind satisfaction of bodily
desires – a sin: “For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty.
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Only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh: but by charity of the
spirit serve one another. I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall
not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the
spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to
another: so that you do not the things that you would. And they that
are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the vices and
concupiscences.“ (Galatians 5:13,16-17,24) Such a Christian
attitude comes into conflict with the view represented by the
spiritual father of contemporary sexual revolution Wilhelm Reich,
who stated that a mass source of neurosis is – unsatisfied sexual
desire. Wilhelm Reich concludes that the cure for neurosis lies in
satisfying sexual desires. Nevertheless, Wilhelm Reich was not
consistent to his philosophy. Does the frustration of other urges of
our sinful nature not lead to neuroses? If an aggressive person feels
thwarted in expressing their aggression, or a criminal in their
criminal act, or a drug addict in their consumption of drugs, or an
alcoholic in their consumption of alcohol, or a glutton in their
excessive intake of food, or a smoker in their consumption of
tobacco, is there not going to be an increased tendency towards
neurosis as a consequence of their frustration? By following the
logic of Wilhelm Reich, are we not going to conclude that hatred,
murders, drug addiction, alcoholism, and yielding to any human
urges are actually useful cures for neuroses, and that we should give
in to them as much as possible? By following commonsense logic,
we can understand that the cure for neurosis is not indulging in our
bodily desires, but in our liberation from them. If we are free from
bodily desires, we cannot experience their frustration, and therefore
we cannot become neurotic. And if we are still governed by bodily
desires, will we liberate ourselves from neuroses by satisfying them?
Unrestrained yielding to bodily desires eventually leads to getting
accustomed to an existing level of stimulation, while the suffocated
discontent is still present, leading us towards immoderation and
perversion. An immoderate and perverse person lives in constant
frustration of their urges, because no one can satisfy all the urges
they can think of. They did not want to go through the drill of
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mature restraining of their urges, so now, whether they want it or
not, they have to learn hypocritically, out of fear of going to prison
or a mental institution. Statistics reveal that the percentage of
neurotic persons after sexual revolution in the West drastically
increased. In Jewish books of wisdom we read: “Extol not thyself in
the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by
folly, and it eat up thy leaves, and destroy thy fruit, and thou be left
as a dry tree in the wilderness“ (Sirach 6:2-3). The Holy Scriptures
refer to all those who seek happiness in the wells of this world:
“Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your
labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me,
and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in
fatness. Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall
live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.“ (Isaiah
55:2-3)
LIBRA
Libra is vain. Their basic motive of living is the pride of life.
The Bible condemns pride, along with sensual and emotional
sources of pleasure: „For all that is in the world is the concupiscence
of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life,
which is not of the Father but is of the world.“ (1 John 2:16) Pride is
often the strength hiding behind human kindness. Awareness of the
value of our own actions can lead to the temptation of pride, and that
is why Christ makes us pay attention to the temptation of
preoccupying ourselves with our good deeds: “But when thou dost
alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth.”
(Matthew 6:3) The awareness of the impression our actions leave on
other people can also be a temptation to perform good deeds, only to
satisfy our vanity. “Take heed that you do not your justice before
men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of
your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:1) Since their pride
makes Libra vainly fear the loss of approval in society, their
understanding of good and evil is perverted into tribal
understanding, where the key question is not what kind of person
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someone is (whether they steal, lie, cheat, murder), but whom they
support (for whom they steal, lie, cheat, murder). If an evil act
benefits the tribe (family, clan, class, religion, nation, party) then it
is not considered to be evil. Such an understanding is the foundation
of mob relations, source of corruption, bribery and nepotism in
society. Unlike these tribal relations, the biblical God reveals the
principles of justice: “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil;
neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest
judgment … Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall
hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face
of man … For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords,
a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons,
nor taketh reward; He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless
and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment”
(Exodus 23:2; Deuteronomy 1:17;10:17-18). “One ordinance for you
of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with
you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the
stranger be before the Lord. One law and one manner shall be for
you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you” (Numbers 15:1516) The Holy Bible condemns Libra’s flattering spirit of false
friendship: “A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and
dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.” (Proverbs 29:5)
Our popularity in society can be a consequence of our flattering
attitude towards other people’s weaknesses: “Woe to you when men
shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the
false prophets.” (Luke 6:26) The Bible claims that we should
responsibly make friendly reprimands, even at the cost of losing
other peoples’ approval and breaking false friendship: “Thou shalt
not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy
neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.” (Leviticus 19:17).
SAGITTARIUS
Sagittarius cannot stand rules of conduct and restraints. They
view demands of God’s law as chains of slavery. Basically,
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everyone who understands the magnitude of the demands of God’s
law can also recognize that these demands are in hostility with the
sinful human nature. Through the demands of God’s law, religion
forbids all those things one would naturally want: “You shall not
covet.” (Romans 7:7), and holds us responsible for those things we
would not naturally want to accept: “Love your enemies.” (Matthew
5:44), “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another: even
as Christ forgave you, so also do you.” (Colossians 3:12-13) What is
the characteristic of the response of the psychological type of
Sagittarius to the demands of God’s law? It lies in the fact that they
place the voice of their sinful nature and their rebellious reaction to
the demands of God’s law on the throne of their heart, as if that
voice is important and relevant. In other words, Sagittarius has a
huge Ego which hinders their acceptance of the character attributes
which go beyond their own experience. When they comprehend the
supreme demands of God’s law, they look at themselves waiting for
their sinful nature to comply with God’s demands. As they cannot
find such approval in themselves, they reject the authority of God’s
law. However, there is no such person who would be able to find
true love for God and people in their nature, the love which enables
people to live in accordance with the God’s law: “Because the
wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the
law of God: neither can it be.“ (Romans 8:7) If we look for the force
of love which will make us meet the demands of God’s law in
ourselves, we will get tired and disappointed. Apostle Paul spoke of
himself and his nature: “For I know that there dwelleth not in me,
that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good. For to will is present
with me: but to accomplish that which is good, I find not... Unhappy
man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?“
(Romans 7:18,24) God says: “I have written to him the great things
of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.“ (Hosea 8:12)
As the body (our nature) is sinful, the only way for usnot to commit
sins is to stop relying on our body, and to start relying on God.
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“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live
according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you
shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you
shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
sons of God.“ (Romans 8:12-14) Let us note that, despite the fact
that God’s law puts elevated demands before us, Apostle John says
that “his commandments are not heavy“, and Christ himself says:
“my yoke is sweet and my burden light“ (1 John 5:3; Matthew
11:30). God’s law is mild, if we do not look for its force in our
nature, but in God Himself. “For it is God who worketh in you, both
to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.“ (Philippians
2:13) It does not matter whether we are sinful by nature if we do not
rely on our sinfulness, but believe and rely on God. Even though
observing God’s law is natural when the spirit of God is within us,
the spirit of God itself is not easy to be chosen. In the book of Sirah
we read about a great spiritual struggle of humanity yielding to the
demands of God’s wisdom: “Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy
neck into her chains: Bow down thy shoulder, and bear her, and be
not grieved with her bands. Come to her with all thy mind, and keep
her ways with all thy power. Search for her, and she shall be made
known to thee, and when thou hast gotten her, let her not go. For in
the latter end thou shalt find rest in her, and she shall be turned to
thy joy. Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a
firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory. For in her is the
beauty of life, and her bands are a healthful binding. Thou shalt put
her on as a robe of glory, and thou shalt set her upon thee as a crown
of joy.“ (Sirach 6:25-32)
ARIES
Even though Aries is brave and ready to perform heroic
deeds for other people, behind their courage and self-sacrifice lies
pride and arrogance. Pride and arrogance are basically the
characteristic of the psychological type of Aries, and they are
considered to be the greatest sins in Christianity. Pride naturally
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strives to devalue worth and superiority of any other being, which is
why Aries is prone to atheism. If they are religious when influenced
by their surrounding, they base their religious experience on the
things they do for God (sacrifice, heroism, undertakings...), not on
what God does for them (mercy), so the Christian concept of
salvation and Christ dying for the sins of this world is
incomprehensible to them. They can see in Christ an example of
martyrdom worthy of praise, but not their Redeemer from sin and
guilt. They cannot conceive that they have done something wrong,
even less that someone else could or should redeem them from
something. If they cannot entwine their huge Ego into religion and
be their own saviors, and even saviors of God’s honor, they will
reject such a religion. The Bible represents a religion of the opposite
principles: “But when the goodness and kindness of God our
Saviour appeared: Not by the works of justice which we have done,
but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration
and renovation of the Holy Ghost.“ (Titus 3:4-5) Instead of Christian
religion, Aries is more comfortable with paganism. Due to their
pride they do not worship animals whose strength, magnitude and
power go beyond their own strength, magnitude and power. This is
why we will not find this type thrilled with a dragon or a lion,
because they feel small and weak before them. It would be much
easier for us to find them worshipping a snake or a scorpion. For this
very reason they tend to worship dead ancestors, whom they honor
more than the living people around them. Dead ancestors cannot
humiliate their proud Ego as people around them can, especially
those in positions above them. Incapacity of proud Aries to put up
with injustice is in direct conflict with Christ’s character, as
described in the Bible: “Who, when he was reviled, did not revile:
when he suffered, he threatened not, but delivered himself to him
that judged him unjustly.“ (1 Peter 2:23) Christ himself said: “But I
say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him also the other; And if a man will contend with thee in
judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.“
(Matthew 5:39-40) The religious type of Aries is here tempted to be
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falsely tame and meek, which they fake out of the very pride and
arrogance we can recognize by their frequently excessive
emphasizing of their own unworthiness and sinfulness. The only
cure for this vicious circle of pride due to their ’humility’ (that is,
humiliation) is for a person to look up towards God, instead of
dealing with themselves and ’bragging’ about their own sinfulness,
and to deal with God’s mercy and righteousness revealed through
the Bible. But, as Christ’s kindness devalues their own kindness and
worth in their own eyes, this type of people tends to dismiss God’s
kindness with the excuse that God cannot be known to human mind,
and as such, we should not deal with him. Such an excuse differs
from the doctrine of the Gospels which states: “And we have known
that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may
know Him who is true.“ (1 John 5:20) God’s character of love can
only be known by reason, felt by emotions, chosen by will, and
lived by heart (in terms of motivation). To those who deny reason
Christ is still speaking: “You adore that which you know not.“ (John
4:22)
LEO
The basic driving motive of the psychological type of Leo is
a desire for influence, control, governance and power. With this
kind of motivation, Leo is not a type which comes to terms with
their destiny and believes in determinism. However, since their will
is moved by the desire for power which is the end in itself, they
strive towards megalomaniac goals in their ventures, while they
neglect the true capacity of will, and that is the power of choice.
Their concept of God resembles the genie living in Aladdin’s
enchanted lamp, which makes their megalomaniac intentions come
true. In Non-Christianity their spiritual experience takes the form of
magic, while in Christianity it often takes the form of so-called
evangelic (spiritualist) religious communities, whereas in science it
takes the form of interest in parapsychological powers. Sometimes it
takes no form whatsoever, which makes it overtly satanistic. If they
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want ensure healthy spiritual experience, the Leo type is tempted to
take various elements of relationship with God into their own hands,
which should never be held under their rule. Simple trust in God,
belief that He will answer our prayers for He is love, comes into
conflict with temptation of Leo, who wants to keep constant control
of events over everything. They attempt to do things themselves that
only God can do – salvation from sin, while neglecting what is up to
them to do – choosing the Savior through encounter with His
supreme character. Their tendency to save themselves from sin is in
conflict with the Bible, which disproves such a power of human
will: “If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots:
you also may do well, when you have learned evil.“ (Jeremiah
13:23) Strong will which gathers its strength from the desire for
power can make Leo successfully restrain the expression of their ill
nature, but not change the nature itself. Radical transformation of
human nature, according to the Bible, is possible only by means of
God’s intervention. “And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon
thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into
another man“ (1 Samuel 10:6). “And I will put my spirit in the midst
of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to
keep my judgments, and do them.“ (Ezekiel 36:27)
GEMINI
Gemini have an exploitative character which leads them to
live only for themselves and the people they consider to be their
property (members of their own family, etc.). They view all other
people as objects to be used. Such a character contradicts the
character of Christian religion. Jesus Christ states the demands
which oppose sinful human nature: “All things therefore whatsoever
you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this
is the law and the prophets.“ (Matthew 7:12) Multitude of Old
Testament regulations had the purpose to liberate people from
exploitations, and teach them how to live for one another: “And if
thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou
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shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with
thee. Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that
thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money
upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.“ (Leviticus
25:35-37) “And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in
the fruits thereof. Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the
seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and
the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.“
(Exodus 23:10-12) The ancient Jewish wisdom advises: “Son,
defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the
poor. Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his
want. Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to gibe to him
that is in distress. Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not
away thy face from the needy. Turn not away thy eyes from the poor
for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee
behind thy back. For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the
bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear
him... Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou
owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness; Deliver him
that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not
fainthearted in thy sou. In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a
father, and as a husband to their mother. And thou shalt be as the
obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more
than a mother.“ (Sirach 4:1-10)
VIRGO
The psychological type of Virgo is characterized by
stinginess, as well as hypocritical contempt towards sinners. In the
demands of the Old Testament, we read rules which are aimed at
eradication of stinginess: “And when you reap the harvest of your
land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither
shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest. And you shall not
glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather every grape of your
vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the
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Lord your God.“ (Leviticus 19:9-10) The Old Testament’s Jewish
wisdom says: “Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness,
but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.“ (Sirach 29:10)
Human tendency to hypocritically judge other people, or to feel
disgusted in contact with overt sinners, is a typical trait of the
psychological type of Virgo, which also defies the spirit of the
Bible. The prophet from the Old Testament named Isaiah reveals
God’s repugnance over the hypocrites who think they would
desecrate themselves or become impure due to physical contact with
other sinners: “That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of
idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art
unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the
day.“ (Isaiah 65:4-5) While people love sin, and despise sinners,
God’s character reveals the spirit of the one who loves sinners, but
despised sin: “The voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice
of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that
shall say: Give ye glory to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good,
for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring their
vows into the house of the Lord: for I will bring back the captivity
of the land as at the first, saith the Lord.“ (Jeremiah 33:11)
According to the Bible, this tendency of the psychological type of
Virgo to judge others is not a virtue but a weakness which reveals
guilty conscience of those who judge: “Judge not, that you may not
be judged.“ (Matthew 7:1). “Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man,
whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another,
thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou
judgest.“ (Romans 2:1). “But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or
thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written: As I live, saith
the Lord, every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess
to God. Therefore every one of us shall render account to God for
himself. Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge
this rather, that you put not a stumbling block or a scandal in your
brother's way.“ (Romans 14:10-13) Taking meticulous care of the
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formal righteousness of own behavior, and neglecting the purity of
heart, which is a trait of the psychological type of Virgo, is
unmasked in Christ’s speech addressed to the priesthood of that
time: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you
tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things
of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to
have done and not to leave those undone. Blind guides, who strain
out a gnat and swallow a camel. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the
dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness. Thou blind
Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that
the outside may become clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which
outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's
bones and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to
men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.“
(Matthew 23:23-28)
CANCER
The psychological type of Cancer is characterized by
multiple abuses of emotions, which are particularly manifested in
their spiritual experience. Instead of knowing God by His character,
they try to know God psychologically (idolatry), and to find in Him
the source of emotions which will suffocate awareness of the need
to reform their own characters, just to avoid the witness of their sins.
Such a system of religiousness differs from the doctrine of the Bible
which calls people to use their minds in order to know God: “And
we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a
mind, that we may know Him who is true.“ (1 John 5:20) In order to
suffocate unpleasant awareness of their own sinfulness, the Cancer
type tends to convince themselves that their nature is righteous and
divine, and that the source of their spiritual problems lies in the
negative thoughts from the outside. By doing this, instead of
repenting for the wicked motives of their heart, they try to avoid
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negative thoughts which are only an occasion for the manifestation
of undefeated weaknesses of their heart. In order to keep their
thoughts positive, they escape from reality into their own imaginary
world, and blame external influences for their problems, failures and
sins. Such a way of thinking contradicts Christ’s explanation that
heart is the source of our problems, and that the thoughts are only
the symptoms of our heart: "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know
that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him
unclean? ... It's what comes out of a person that makes a person
unclean, because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil
thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,
adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander,
arrogance, and foolishness." (Mark 7:18-22) The source of sin does
not lie in some external influence, the effect of some negative
energy, or whether some action is performed or not, but in the depth
of the human heart: “All these evils come from within and make a
person unclean.“ (Mark 7:23). Instead of reforming their character
and their basic motives, the Cancer types tends to satisfy themselves
with a change which is not deeper than their own emotions. Yet,
according to the Bible, the criterion of righteousness of our spiritual
experience is not our emotions, but living in accordance with God’s
law. Without regard to human emotions, Jesus Christ says: “You
will know them by their fruits.“ (Matthew 7:16) “He that hath my
commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me.“ (John
14:21) The Cancer type attempts to differentiate between good and
evil based on whether their emotions are pleasant or not. However,
the Bible teaches that without reason, one is not capable of
distinguishing good and evil. “Depart from evil is understanding.“
(Job 28:28). “A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only
to let what is in his heart come to light.“ (Proverbs 18:2). When
Apostle Paul criticized the religious zeal of the Jews, he revealed
that honesty alone is not sufficient: “For I bear them witness that
they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they,
not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own,
have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.“ (Romans
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10:2-3) Without reason, people are not capable of judging the
character of the motives which force them into religious or any other
zeal. The Cancer type is naturally prone to perform good deeds by
their selfish sentiment, and when they are tempted to lose their
pleasant emotions due to the influence of external factors (because
emotions naturally depend on external factors), they are also
tempted to lose their ’kindness’. In times of tough external pressures
sentimental kindness becomes sentimental weakness, and reveals its
emptiness through cowardice and treachery. Under the pressure of
authority, the Cancer type easily renounces their personality and
becomes a slave of the person who dominates over them. The Bible
condemns such a weakness in the following words: “You were
bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.“ (1 Corinthians
7:23) Jesus Christ presented his disciples with the demands which
cannot be fulfilled by selfish sentiment, but only by true unselfish
love: “Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will
also confess him before my Father who is in heaven. But he that
shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father
who is in heaven.“ (Matthew 10:32-33) Christ proceeded to reveal
the character of unselfish love that Cancer is definitely not able to
fulfill, unless they beat their selfish sentiment and possessiveness:
“He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me;
and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of
me. And he that taketh not up his cross, and followeth me, is not
worthy of me. He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that shall
lose his life for me, shall find it.“ (Matthew 10:37-39)
PISCES
The psychological type of Pisces is characterized by self-pity,
depression and ungratefulness. The root of their self-pity is an
attempt to liberate themselves from the responsibility for their
actions, because if they are miserable, then they cannot be blamed
for their sins and failures. They give up the responsible use of will,
do not fight temptations, and then blame these very temptations for
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their misery, as if they did not have the freedom of will to fight
them. Their immature reaction to stresses in life forces them into
depression. Jesus Christ says: “Therefore I say to you, be not
solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what
you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body
more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither
sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one
cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I
say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one
of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to
morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more
you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What
shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be
clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your
Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye
therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these
things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore solicitous for to
morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for
the day is the evil thereof.“ (Matthew 6:25-34) Unlike the
psychological type of Pisces, which tends to turn the sorrow for the
death of a beloved one into lifelong suffering, in the books of
wisdom of the Old Testament we can read this recommendation:
“My son, shed tears over the dead, and begin to lament as if thou
hadst suffered some great harm, and according to judgment cover
his body, and neglect not his burial. And for fear of being ill spoken
of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or
two, for fear of detraction... For of sadness cometh death, and it
overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth
down the neck. He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch
embracing a virgin, and sighing. Give not up thy soul to sadness,
and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. The joyfulness of the
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heart, is the life of a man, and a never failing treasure of holiness:
and the joy of a man is length of life. Have pity on thy own soul,
pleasing God, and contain thyself: gather up thy heart in his
holiness: and drive away sadness far from thee. For sadness hath
killed many, and there is no profit in it.“ (Sirach 38:16-19; 30:2125) The psychological type of Pisces has high expectations of other
people, which results in their eternal displeasure with other people
and their disappointment with them. If they did not have any
expectations of others, they would not get disappointed at them.
However, no matter how wholeheartedly other people approach
them, Pisces show constant ingratitude towards them, because they
are led by the thought that other people are obliged to respond to
their needs. They cannot allow in themselves the spirit of gratitude,
because in such a case, they would lose the excuse for arousing
depression. Such a spirit of ungratefulness is in conflict with the
spirit of a religious person whose awareness of God’s mercy and
forgiveness offers reasons for gratitude every day. The religion of
the Bible is a religion of gratitude, which can be seen in its prayers
and chants of gratitude, holidays of gratitude, and the gifts to God as
a sign of gratitude. The Bible tells us: “Pray without ceasing. In all
things give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus
concerning you all.“ (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18) “And you shall
rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to
you, and to your house.“ (Deuteronomy 26:11)
ABOVE ALL STARS
Let us note how people who live responsibly and act
maturely in their life temptations, or who have Christian spiritual
experience, cannot recognize themselves in horoscope. Horoscope
did not offer them their place under the sun. The behavior of such a
person is not determined by the influence of genetics, external
factors, nor inspiration by Satan. Astrological, magical, or any other
influence has no rule over the spirit of those who have repented for
their sins, and who are in peace with God:
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“No spell can curse the descendants of Jacob. No magic can harm
the people of Israel. Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel: 'See
what God has done!'“ (Numbers 23:23)
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is
against us? He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?
Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:
Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is
risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh
intercession for us. Who then shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or
danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? (As it is written: For thy
sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter.) But in all these things we overcome,
because of him that hath loved us. For I am sure that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come, nor might, Nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.“ (Romans 8:31-39)
ASTROLOGERS AND JESUS’ BIRTH
According to the Bible, the sages from the East were the
only people who knew the moment of Christ’s birth:
“When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Judah, in
the days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East
to Jerusalem, saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For
we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him.“
(Matthew 2:1-2)
Were the wise men from the East astrologers?
In the old times, people believed that the stars were divine
personalities, who had a power to influence the events on Earth. The
remains of this belief could be noticed in today’s astrologers who
still think that celestial bodies have the power characteristic only for
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the reasonable and mighty beings – for example, the power to
determine whom you are going to meet on a certain day and what
the result of that meeting will be.
Since in the ancient time almost all the people were heathens
and as such believed in star divinities, it is not strange that the sages
from the East also were pagans, but it is a real miracle that they
went to make their obeisance to Messiah of a monotheistic religion
whose birth was foretold a long time ago, to Messiah of a religion
which law was disapproving both astrology and heathenism:
"Don't let yourselves be tempted to worship and serve what
you see in the sky - the sun, the moon, the stars, or anything else.
The Lord your God has given them to all people everywhere."
(Deuteronomy 4:19)
"This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the
nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in
fear of them." (Jeremiah 10:2)
“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh
his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a
charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a
necromancer ... For these nations, which thou shalt possess,
hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for
thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.“
(Deuteronomy 18:10-14)
"Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you;
Stand fast now in your spells And in your many sorceries With
which you have labored from your youth; Perhaps you will be able
to profit, Perhaps you may cause trembling. You are wearied with
your many counsels; Let now the astrologers, Those who prophesy
by the stars, Those who predict by the new moons, Stand up and
save you from what will come upon you. Behold, they have become
like stubble, Fire burns them; They cannot deliver themselves from
the power of the flame; There will be no coal to warm by Nor a fire
to sit before!" (Isaiah 47:10, 12-14)
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So, we are asking ourselves what could provoke the sages
from the East to make their obeisance to the newly born Jesus
Christ?
How did they get the idea that He should be the King of
Israel?
Why did the sages from the East feel the need to bow before
Jesus Christ at all?
How did they find out where He was to be born? What did
the star that showed them their way represent?
Why the sages from the East, and not, for instance, the
Jewish priests, were the only men who discovered the time and the
place of Christ’s birth?
How come God’s chosen people could not recognize the
time and the place of birth of the Messiah t so long anticipated?
Did not Jews themselves have the Holy Scriptures of the Old
Testament? Did they not wait for the Messiah for over a thousand
years, based on the Scriptures? How could it be done by foreigners,
sages from the East, and not by the chosen people of Israel?
According to the Bible, Israeli people were not willing to
recognize Christ as their Savior; not in His birth, nor His life, and
not even in His death. “He came unto his own: and his own received
him not.“ (John 1:11) Despite the fact that they studied the
Scriptures of the Bible, the Jews had the wrong vision of the
promised Messiah under the influence of their ambitious motives
and their self-righteous religiousness. They were too proud to admit
that they needed the Messiah – the Savior from sin of their own
hearts. Instead, they contemplated on how to liberate themselves
from the Roman occupation, unaware that slavery befell them again
due to their spiritual apostasy. This is why they interpreted the
biblical prophecies in political instead of spiritual way, thinking that
the Messiah would show up as their liberator from the Romans. And
when the real Messiah showed up, they could not recognize him.
Since the Messiah revealed their real nature and true motives of
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their religious zeal, they sent him to death – just to suffocate the
reprimand of their own conscience.
But, somewhere in the East, there was a group of sages who
were ready to recognize the Savior of their souls from sin in the
promised Messiah. The three sages realized that empty
philosophizing and meditative intoxication with emotions could not
make them quench the thirst of their souls, and in their hearts arose
the desire for something more sublime.
We can presume how they came to the Messiah and
recognized him in Jesus Christ.
As sages, they studied the scriptures of different origins and,
as astrologers, they naturally asked various questions about stars,
human destiny and character. Perhaps these very questions: “Is it
just and fair that we are governed by the stars, and that we do not
have the power to govern ourselves?” “Is it possible to escape the
destiny written in the stars?“ “How can we rise above our own
destiny?”
Beside all the other spiritual scriptures, the Scriptures of the
Old Testament naturally came into their hands. They specifically
paid special attention to any line that might have been connected to
astrology.
And then their attention was caught by the lines they could
not immediately comprehend, but which they felt might represent
the secret of fulfillment of their hopes:
“He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the
knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty,
falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh:
there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of
Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the
children of Sheth.“ (Numbers 24:16-17)
“The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light:
to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is
risen... For a child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the
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government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to
come, the Prince of Peace.“ (Isaiah 9:2,6)
“Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good
tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest
good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of
Juda: Behold your God; ... He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:
he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them
up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with
young.“ (Isaiah 40:9,11).
The sages were deeply moved by the finding of the promised
Redeemer, the Star of Jacob, the Light that will lit up the land where
death resides.
With amazement they read the sublime principles of the Old
Testament Scriptures, which were not known to other religions:
“Thou shalt not avenge....“ (Leviticus 19:18).
“Say not: I will return evil!“ (Proverbs 20:22)
“Say not: I will do to him as he hath done to me.“ (Proverbs
24:29)
“When thy enemy shall fall, be not glad.“ (Proverbs 24:17)
“If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat“ (Proverbs 25:21).
While they were reading the elevated demands of God’s
Law, they realized their own sinfulness, and the need to purify their
own hearts of sin:
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be
long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt
not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not
covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his
ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.“ (Exodus 20:12-17)
They were moved by the purity of the words God used when
he called his chosen people to live:
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“And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon
it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them;
and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after
which ye use to go a whoring: That ye may remember, and do all
my commandments, and be holy unto your God.“ (Numbers 15:3940)
They were astounded by the gentleness and care of God’s
interest in peoples’ welfare:
“When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a
battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house,
if any man fall from thence.“ (Deuteronomy 22:8)
“When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over
the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and
for the widow. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou
shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the
fatherless, and for the widow.“ (Deuteronomy 24:20-21)
“When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou
mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not
put any in thy vessel. When thou comest into the standing corn of
thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but
thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.“
(Deuteronomy 23:24-25)
“When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to
war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be
free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath
taken.“ (Deuteronomy 24:5)
Unlike Eastern religions where God is known through
experiences and emotions, the sages came to opposite understanding
through the Bible:
“He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own
good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?“
(Jeremiah 22:16)
God’s kindness, which was not revealed in any other religion
in such a manner, shone in their hearts as their comfort and hope:
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“The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and
plenteous in mercy. He will not always be angry: nor will he
threaten for ever. He hath not dealt with us according to our sins:
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For according to the
height of the heaven above the earth: he hath strengthened his mercy
towards them that fear him.“ (Psalm 102:8-11)
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the
midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall
hearken.“ (Deuteronomy 18:15)
Perhaps He could give them answers to all those questions
astrology could not answer. Perhaps He could liberate them from
slavery of their sinful fate, and help them attain an elevated
character.
They found the answer in the Bible.
God will send the Messiah who will liberate those who are
slaves to sin.
“I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his
ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom,
nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts. Thus saith the
Lord:
The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia... men
of stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thine: they shall walk
after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and they shallworship
thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only in thee is God, and
there is no God besides thee.
Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye
that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up
the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save ...
Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth:
for I am God, and there is no other.“ (Isaiah 45:13-14.20-22)
“What do we have to do so that God can look at us and have
mercy on us?“ the sages from the East wondered. In light of God’s
revealed law, they themselves felt sinful and filthy, incapable of
deserving salvation or redemption. They wondered whether they
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should bring a sacrifice to God for their salvation, other than the
sacrifice of sin itself. They came across the most incredible answer
in the Bible:
“Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast
thou glorified me with thy victims: I have not caused thee to serve
with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense. I am, I am he that blot
out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy
sins.“ (Isaiah 43:23-25)
The sages were impressed by the finding that God showed
no desire to save them for their kindness (because then they would
be lost, as they are sinful), but because He himself is kind and
merciful. By proceeding with the perusal of the Old Testament, they
came upon the following lines:
“What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith
shall I kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him,
and calves of a year old? May the Lord be appeased with thousands
of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my
firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my
soul?
I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord
requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to
walk solicitous with thy God?“ (Micah 6:6-8).
“But the just shall live in his faith.“ (Habakkuk 2:4)
Reading this revelation of God’s love, they remembered
monotheism of ancient East, when people had known a similar God,
who was soon forgotten under the influence of polytheism and
Buddhism. They remembered the prayer of the ancient Chinese
emperor Shun (2317-2208 BC) written down by Confucius:
“Long ago, in the beginning, there was great chaos, without
form and dark. ... In the midst (of the chaos) there existed neither
form nor sound. You, O Spiritual Sovereign, came out in Your
presidency, and first did divide the grosser parts from the purer. You
made the heavens; You made the earth; You made man. All things
with their reproducing power exist because of You.
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You have promised, O Di, to hear us, for You regard us as a
Father. I, Your child, dull and unenlightened, am unable to show
forth my dutiful feelings. I thank You for accepting my fervent
prayer. Honorable is Your great name. With reverence we spread
out these gems and silks, and, as swallows rejoicing in the spring,
praise your abundant love.
The great feast has been set forth, and the sound of our joy is
like thunder. The Sovereign Spirit promises to enjoy our offering,
and my heart within me feels like a particle of dust. The meat has
been boiled in the large caldrons, and the fragrant delicacies have
been prepared. Enjoy the offering, O Di, then all the people will be
joyful.
The great and lofty One promises His favor and regard; we
are totally unworthy to receive it. I, His simple servant, while I
worship, hold this precious cup, and praise Him, whose years have
no end.
When Di, the Lord, voiced the command, He called into
existence heaven, earth, and man. Between (heaven and earth) He
placed man and things, and the heavens were spread out over them.
I, His unworthy servant, beg His (favoring) decree, to enlighten me,
His minister; so that I may forever appear before Him in the highest
heaven.
All the many kinds of moving creatures are indebted to your
favor for the existence. People and things all enjoy your love, O Di.
All living things are indebted to your goodness, but who can
understand where His blessing come from. You alone, O Lord, are
the true parent of all things.
The delicious feast is laid out (before You); The precious
gems are arranged; the pearly wine is presented with music and
dancing. The spirit of harmony is captured; men and creatures are
happy. His servant is troubled because he is unable to express his
respect.
We have expressed our sincerity poorly. Your sovereign
goodness is infinite. Like a potter, you have made all living things.
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Great and small are sheltered (by Your love). The sense of Your
goodness is engraved on the heart of Your poor servant; so that my
feelings cannot be fully expressed. With great kindness You bear
with us, and, despite our faults, You grant us life and prosperity.“
(James Legge, The Notions of the Chinese Concerning God and
Spirits, pg 28).
Now the sages from the East quite well understood that God
forgives people’s sins out of ’pure mercy’, but there was another
question:
How can God stay just, if he forgives their sins? In that case,
will he not be inconsistent in his own righteousness? Who will pay
the price of their lawlessness?
They found the answer to this question in the book of
prophet Isaiah, written five centuries earlier – in the prophecy
stating that the Messiah himself will take the blame for their sins:
“Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of
the Lord revealed? And he shall grow up as a tender plant before
him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground; there is no beauty in him,
nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness,
that we should be desirous of him: Despised, and the most abject of
men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look
was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him
not.
Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows:
and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by
God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was
bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him,
and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone
astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened
not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall
be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his
mouth...
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And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he
shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the
will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. Because his soul
hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this
my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities...
Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the
spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death,
and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of
many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.“ (Isaiah 53)
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called
Emmanuel.“ (Isaiah 7:14)
If there really was such a Savior, then he stood above all the
stars, the sages thought, and remembered the legend which had been
preserved from ancient times, which talked about the Savior who
would come down from the heavens and be born in a human body,
and then end up as a sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the world. All
the systems relating to sacrifice, which were earlier present in
various religions, had the goal of pointing to the sacrifice of Jesus
Christ, but in the course of time, these became either forgotten or
corrupted. The ritualistic sacrifice could not absolve anyone of their
sins, but pointed to the Redeemer who would one day redeem
humankind with his sacrifice and bring salvation to all the repentant
sinners.
In their deep gratitude before the given revelation, the sages
wanted to make an obeisance to the Messiah and wondered where
and when He would appear.
In the books of Moses, it was foretold that the Messiah
would be born in Judas’ tribe:
“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver
from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.“ (Genesis 49:10).
“He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the
children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor. And he
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shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all
generations. He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as
showers falling gently upon the earth. In his days shall justice spring
up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away. And he
shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the
earth. He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls
of the poor. He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity:
and their names shall be honourable in his sight. Let his name be
blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in
him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall
magnify him.“ (Psalms 71: 4-8, 13-14, 17)
And then the sages wondered about the time of the
Messiah’s birth.
In the ninth chapter of the book of Prophet Daniel, we find
the biblical prophecy about the time of the Messiah’s anointment
(baptism), execution (on the cross of Golgotha) and rejection by the
Jews:
“Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy
holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an
end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be
brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of
saints may be anointed.. Know thou, therefore, and take notice:
That from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem
again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixtytwo weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in
straitness of times. And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain:
and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people,
with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the
sanctuary:... And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one
week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall
fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation:
and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to
the end.“ (Daniel 9:24-27)
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In the analysis of this prophecy, we will take a day for a year
as per the text in Ezekiel 4:6. The prophesied time of 70 weeks (or
490 years) started with the decree to restore and rebuild devastated
Jerusalem. It took 7 weeks (or 49 years) to rebuild the city. There
were sixty two weeks (or 434 years) left before the beginning of the
Savior’s service. There was one week (or seven years) left till the
end of the time in the prophecy. In the middle of the week (or after
three and a half years) “he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease “. At that point the ceremonial sacrifice pointing to the
Savior’s sacrifice would be canceled because it would have come
true. At the end of the week, that is, three and a half years later, the
Jews finally sealed their fate by stoning Stephen, and stopped being
the chosen people. Since then, the Gospel is preached to the heathen.
The decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was issued by
emperor Artaxerxes in 457 BC. If we add 69 weeks or 483 years, we
will get the time when the Savior’s service started, that is, the time
of His baptism, which is 27 AD.
However, the sages from the East were looking for the year
of the Savior’s birth. How could they find out about it?
At the age of twelve, a Jew would become responsible before
God, that is, he would become ’the son of the law’, whereas at the
age of thirty he would become mature for great life responsibilities,
and only then would he be allowed to take over the responsibilities
of a priest in a temple, which means that, according to the Law, the
Messiah could have been anointed for service only at the age of
thirty.
If we subtract 30 years of His life from 27 AD, when the
prophecy claimed he had been anointed for service, we will get 4
BC, which is the exact year of Jesus’ birth.
“When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the
days of king Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to
Jerusalem, Saying: Where is he that is born king of the Jews? For
we have seen his star in the East, and are come to adore him. And
king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
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And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the
people, he inquired of them where Christ should be born? But they
said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the
prophet:
And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among
the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the captain that
shall rule my people Israel. Then Herod, privately calling the wise
men learned diligently of them the time of the star which appeared
to them. And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently
inquire after the child, and when you have found him, bring me
word again, that I also may come and adore him.
Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the
star which they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came
and stood over where the child was. And seeing the star they
rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And entering into the house, they
found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored
him: and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold,
frankincense, and myrrh.“ (Matthew 2:1-11)
What kind of phenomenon is the star which followed the
group of astrologers? Does it often happen to astrologers? Was it a
flying saucer perhaps? Based on biblical descriptions, we can
conclude that it was a group of angels encouraging the sages and
showing them the way. The flock of angels was visible because it
was lit by the glory of God.
“And there were in the same country shepherds watching and
keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of
the Lord stood by them and the brightness of God shone round about
them: and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them:
Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall
be to all the people: For, this day is born to you a Saviour, who is
Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto
you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid
in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
the heavenly army, praising God and saying: Glory to God in the
highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.“ (Luke 2:8-14)
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The group of sages – astrologers from the East, came to
make an obeisance to Jesus, for, by studying the Bible, they realized
that He is the promised one who came to save humanity from its
destiny and lead it towards life which will serve God. Are we
ourselves willing to take the path this group of astrologers took two
thousand years ago?
If we decide to get to know our Savior Jesus Christ through
the word of God, we will also be followed by a group of angels,
which might be invisible to our eye and show us the way that we
need to take.
“For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been
changed:
And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. I am become
as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. Thou hast held me
by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with
thy glory thou hast received me. For what have I in heaven? and
besides thee what do I desire upon earth? For thee my flesh and my
heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God
that is my portion for ever.“ (Psalms 72:21-26)
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REVIEWS
Are we completely programmed or not? Is our destiny written in the stars? Or is it
perhaps determined by the genetic structure we posses? Or the cultural patterns
we were born in? Do we have free will, or is it just an illusion? Or can we
influence our destiny ourselves?
These are the basic questions Miloš Bogdanović answers in his latest book
Astrology and Anthropology. And his reply is not simple, but is rather quite
complex, utterly interesting, and convincingly explained. Every individual may
remain determined by external factors, but they don’t have to if they choose to
elevate themselves to the level we are generally predisposed to, by being human.
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As for astrology and anthropology, the author’s tendency was to demonstrate that
the psychophysical types astrology operates with (Aries, Leo, Virgo…) are
closely correlated to various types anthropologists refer to, and thus shed some
light on the secret of astrology. The analysis of this correlation represents one of
the strongest points in the book, and it is not in favor of astrology.
Also, one of the striking points of this book is the consideration of a certain
degree of persuasiveness astrology provides, i.e. the question as to how come
certain astrological analyses sometimes amazingly coincide with actual events (for
example, how come a significant number of people who show psychophysical
characteristics of a Zodiac sign are actually born under the sign). Naturally, there
is also a series of other relevant and significant philosophical, theological,
sociological, anthropological, and even parapsychological problems debated in the
text. Finally, it should be noted that the book was written in an already
recognizable style of Miloš Bogdanović, the style which possesses distinct clarity,
even though void of any simplifications.
Dr Svetozar Sinđelić, Professor of Philosophy
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In his new and extremely interesting book, Miloš Bogdanović poses crucial
anthropological questions which are to unveil the very essence of astrology- this
not only ancient, but a present-day phenomenon. Who governs the human spirit
and behavior- celestial bodies, inheritance from ancestors, or an individual’s will;
why does horoscope sometimes “guess correctly”, despite the unscientific nature
of astrology; and finally- why many people possess attributes of some other
Zodiac sign, and not the one they were born under? These very subtitles help us
guess the line of author’s thinking in this book.
In the first part titled “Brief History of Astrology”, there is a historical illustration
of the astrological phenomenon which shows that the level of people’s interest in
astrology throughout centuries has been in reverse proportion to the enlightenment
of society and its individuals. The chapter ends with the conclusion that astrology
is very popular nowadays, which is exactly what has made the author write this
book. Are we not living in the age of quasi-enlightenment and “neopaganism” –
this is the question which is per se imposed upon an objective reader of this book,
who is confronted with an “explosion” of astrological and magical phenomena,
even at the beginning of the 21st century, in all the meridians of the globe.
The second part is titled “The Scientific Analysis of the Astrological
Phenomenon” and it reveals the unscientific nature of the explanation of the same
by astrologers themselves, who to this very day interpret the influence of stars as
they did in ancient times, when it was believed they were- divine beings.
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However, the unscientific nature of the explanation of the astrological
phenomenon does not deny the astrological phenomenon itself, which, according
to the author, often works astoundingly. The explanation as to why the
astrological phenomenon seemingly works will actually be the subject of the rest
of the book.
The third part- “The Psychological Analysis of the Astrological Phenomenon"
states to us that the astrological types really exist. They represent patterns of
human weaknesses, which govern a person only if the person gives up the
responsibility for their actions. A responsible person behaves reasonably,
corresponding with the needs of life, and not by some typology.
The fourth part of the book, i.e. “The Anthropological Analysis of the
Astrological Phenomenon is particularly interesting, and this analysis deals with
the origin of the deviant part of human behavior, which actually explains the
differences between people embodied in different Zodiac signs. Every astrological
type has a corresponding anthropological type or their combination. This
comparative analysis, supported with a multitude of astrological-anthropological
parallels, reveals that the source of character characteristics of different
astrological types is not in the stars, but genetics. There is always a possibility that
a person will be born in the very sign or ascendant which corresponds to their
anthropological type. It can be said that this is the most original part of the
author’s thoughts in the book.
“The Philosophical Analysis of the Astrological Phenomenon" is the fifth part of
the book, and in there we find an analysis of the meaning of the fundamental
theories the astrological model of thinking provides. The author concluded that
the dependence of our destiny on stars more than our own will does not make
sense.
The sixth part is dedicated to “The Religious Analysis of Astrology” and deals
with the attitude of religion towards the supernatural element of the astrological
experience which goes beyond the domain of science and anthropology.
As a whole, I believe that the book Astrology and Anthropology by Miloš
Bogdanović is an interesting experiment, inspiring for new deliberations and
pursuit of answers to the eternal question of man’s freedom and inexorable nature
of destiny. The author does not negate the “biological" roots of weakness in
human nature, but still firmly holds the viewpoint that the freedom of personality
triumphs in the eternal struggle between the given, as a material-psychological
dimension of existence, and the assigned, as a spiritual principle of the existence
of an individual in general. Finally, I highly recommend the book Astrology and
Anthropology by Miloš Bogdanović to be published, and I wish the readers to find
in it further inspiration for their pursuit of answers to some difficult questions of
life and, at the same time- to work on themselves, because one is impossible
without the other.
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Dr Goran Z. Golubović, Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of
Philosophy, Niš
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The book Astrology and Anthropology by Miloš Bogdanović is a work significant
for both anthropology and astrology. It is significant for anthropology because in
the astrological experience, which is void of racial prejudice and presumptions, it
finds the proof that the anthropological types exist virtually exactly as described
by early anthropologists of the 19th and 20th centuries, whereas this work is of
significance for astrology because it purges the astrological experience of the
superstitious conviction that the human character and appearance are determined
by the position of celestial bodies. Through the thorough psychoanalysis of
different anthropological and their corresponding psychological types, it is
obvious that the author of this research venture is not satisfied with a human being
as a victim of both external and biological factors, but he encourages the reader,
as a reasonable and conscious human being, to take responsibility for their life in
their own hands. As a proof that the triumph over oneself is possible, but also that
the fall is inevitable if the one does not conquer their temptations, the author
presents the character analysis of various people, the temptations of their
anthropological constitutions and their ups and downs throughout history. The
author’s message is that our destiny is in our own hands, but that we, due to fear
of confronting our own responsibility, frequently give up our freedom and
willingly let someone else think and decide for ourselves. I therefore recommend
this book to anyone who is free and brave to think without prejudice and taboos
about a human being, its place under the sun, and paths towards its selfrealization.
Dr Dušan Obradović, anthropologist
(This book is not yet textually and graphically completed, but it
will be soon. For more details write on [email protected])
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Miloš Bogdanović
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