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OEDINARY GENERAL MEETING* 



Captain G. P. Heath, E.X. (Ret.), in the Chaie. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



A lecture, which was illustrated with diagrams, was delivered by the 

 Rev. A. B. Grimaldi, M.A. (Camb.) on :— 



THE ZODIACAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE STARS: 

 IN ITS HISTORICAL AND BIBLICAL CON- 

 NECTIONS By Eev. A. B. Geimaldi, M.A. (Camb.). 



UINTILIAN says, " It is necessary to understand astronomy 



if we wish to understand the poets." Of course he 



alluded to the classical poets ; but it is evident that we 

 may read with much interest and with benefit even, within 

 proper limits, the classical poets, with a very minimum amount 

 of astronomical knowledge, taking the word astronomy in the 

 modern sense. He must therefore have referred to the Signs. 



Zodiac. — The meaning of the word is not "little animal" — 

 this term cannot be applied to all the signs — the real meaning 

 is " a path." 



The lecturer's view is that Seth arranged the stars in the 

 sun's apparent course, during twelve months, into twelve great 

 groups called signs ; that Enoch concluded the work by 

 arranging the stars within and without that circle into thirty- 

 six groups called Decans. 



It is the only antediluvian work left. It is of world-wide 

 universality. It belongs to the Christian world, it is connected 

 with the whole of humanity. A work to which deep mystery 



A Few Notes ox the Lecture. 



Monday, May 7th, 1906. 



