220 



MRS. WALTER MAUNDER, ON ASTRONOMICAL 



days in which the snn traverses the heaven, entering into and 

 departing from the portals for thirty days with the heads of thousands 

 of the order of the stars, together with the four which are intercalated, 

 which divide the four portions of the }^ear which lead them and 

 enter with them four days. Owing to them men shall be at fault 

 and not reckon them in the reckoning of the whole world* ; yea 

 men shall be at fault, and not recognize them accurately. For they 

 belong to the reckoning of the year and are truly recorded (thereon) 

 for ever, one in the first portal and one in the third, and one in the 

 fourth, and one in the sixth, and the year is completed in 364 days. 



" And the account thereof is accurate and the recorded reckoning 

 thereof exact ; for the luminaries, and months and festivals, and 

 years and days, has Uriel shown and revealed to me to whom the 

 Lord of the whole creation of the world hath subjected the host of 

 heaven. And he has power over night and day in the heaven to cause 

 the light to give light to men — sun, moon, and stars, and all the 

 powers of the heaven which revolve in their circular chariots. And 

 these are the orders of the stars, which set in their places, and in 

 their seasons and festivals and months. 



" And these are the names of those who lead them, who watch and 

 enter at their times, in their orders, in their seasons, in their months, 

 in their periods of dominion, and in their positions. Their four 

 leaders who divide the four parts of the year enter first; and after 

 them the twelve leaders of the orders who divide the months ; and for 

 the 360 there are heads over thousands who divide the days j and for 

 the four intercalary days there are the leaders which sunder the four 

 parts of the year. And these heads over thousands are intercalated 

 between leader and leader, each behind a station, but their leaders 

 make the divisions. And these are the names of the leaders who 

 divide the four parts of the year which are ordained : Milki'el, He? 

 emmelek, and Mel'ejal, and Xarel. And the names of those who lead 

 them : Adnar'el, and Ijasusa'el,and 'Elome'el — these three follow the 

 leaders of the orders, and there is one that follows the three leaders 

 of the orders which follow those leaders of stations that divide the 

 four parts of the year." 



To divine means, in Hebrew, to cut, to divide, and the aim of 

 diviners, astrologers, horoscope-makers has always been to get 

 enough divisions in their plan of divination to enable them 

 to get a sufficient choice of interpretation. At the beginning of 

 our era all that astrologers could do was to divide up time 

 amongst the deities supposed to preside over the various planets. 

 To have simply given a planet to each day would have allowed 



I give here the unamended text. 



