The Apocatastasis, or Progress Backwards: A New Tract for the Times (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The blessed body which revolves in a circle, (the visible heavens) is the cause of the events in the sublunary world. For both are parts of the universe, and they have a certain relation to each other. If, therefore, the cause of generation in the things which surround us, originates in the natures which are above us, it follows that the seeds of things which happen here, descend from thence. And if some one should add, since astronomy gives credibility to this, that there are apocatastatic periods of the stars and spheres, some of which are simple but others compounded, such a one will partly ac cord With the Egyptians, and partly with the Grecians. A man of this kind, therefore, will not deny that in consequenceof the same motions returning, effects also will return togeth~ er with their canses and that lives on the earth, generations, educations, dispositions and fortunes, will be the same with those that formerly existed. (synesius de Providentia.) These apocatastatic periods (wepsodox, completed revolutions,) of the stars or spheres are of several kinds, as intimated in the above extract, and of course come round at -<lifierent intervals. Two of the heavenly bodies may come to have the same rela tive position to each other which they had at some preceding time; as when the earth, at any given point of its orbit, has the same relation to the sun which it had a year before - or the earth, sun, and moon; or these with one, or with more than one, of the planets, may come to the same relative posi tion which they have been in before, and this, happening at different intervals for each combination of bodies, will be, for each combination, their apocatastatic period. Or the entire number of astronomical bodies may come to the same relative position they have had before. The end therefore of the mundane year is, when all the planets and all the fixed stars have returned from a certain place to the same place, so that no star in the heavens may be situated in a place different from that in which it was before. This, however, according to the decision of physiologists, will take place at the expiration of yea This year, therefore, is called the truly revolving year &c. (macrobius, in Somn. Scip. Lib. Ii.)

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