Translated from the originals by Thomas Taylor.

Introductory preface by Manly P. Hall.

The group of brief translations and extracts which Thomas Taylor combined in the present volume may be considered as dealing with astro-theology. The work was issued in a very small edition and has eluded reprinting now. Ocellus Lucanus and Taurus have survived principally in the writings of later authors. What little is known of them is summarized in Mr. Taylor's preface. Julius Firmicus Maternus was one of the most famous early astrologers and is second in authority only to Ptolemy of Alexandria. He wrote in the fourth century A.D., but it was not until 1975 that his principal text, Libri Matheseos, appeared in English. The horoscope of the world which is inluded herewith is from the 1533 edition of the Libri Matheseos. The writings of Proclus are available in the translations of Thomas Taylor, and he has long been regarded as indispensable to the interpretations of the writings og Plato and Socrates. It is appropriate that his opinions should be included herewith, as they deal with the mystery of time as axplained in Neoplatonism.

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