1895 - ASTRAL WORSHIP - ANCIENT ASTROLOGY COSMOGONY PAGAN SUN MOON GODS WORSHIP

ASTRAL WORSHIPThe Truth Seeker Company (New York). Scarce First Edition, 1895. By J.H. Hill. Includes a moveable Astral Wheel to inside front board, only found in the first edition. 128 pages, with beautiful b&w illustrations throughout. Credited with writing one of the first comprehensive 19th-century studies on Astral Worship, Dr. Hill explores the foundations of astrology and explores its influence on religions, rituals and holidays that are commonly practiced today. Astral worship - or Astrolatry - is the worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies (often found in the Babylonian, and Greco-Roman religions). The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Contents include:- Geocentric System of Nature- Sacred Numbers- Twelve Thousand Year Cycle- Ancient Triad- God Sol- Ancient Cosmogony- Fall and Redemption of Man- Incarnation of God Sol- Fable of the Twelve Labors- Anni