Earthly things must be known to be loVed: diVine things must be loVed to be known.
- Pascal
The true purpose of philosophy (before "philosophy" came to be merely a sterile
word game used to perpetuate intellectual arro#gance) was once held to be the search for essences and for the underlying nature of manifested things, all based upon a love of wisdom. In modern terms, this could be called a search for the archetypal level of reality. Nowadays, of course, any statement about "essences" would cause one to be labeled an "occultist." But when we look around us at the world and try to make some sense of our lives and the sort of reality with which the mass media deals, we have to admit that everything of significance is occult, that is, hidden. Despite all the supposed knowledge that we have accumulated, meaning is nowhere to be found, except in those frelds of study that point to a unity between man and the uni#verse. This unity of, and relation between, man and the universe is really the only assumption upon which astrology is based.
The Swiss physician Alexander Ruperti (1971) expresses the opinion:
Unfortunately, the scientific attitude has tended to increase the
chaos at the psychological level, because it destroys the value of the individual and because the type of city and machine#controlled existence it has produced has also destroyed man's sense of participation in the rhythms of life and nature. Modern man tends to forget that science's main concern is the estab#lishment of collective laws for general application only. The en#vironment science offers to man does not present him with any human meaning or purpose; merely cold, intellectual facts which are supposed to be unchangeable but which, from any long perspective, may easily change according to the rhythm of vast cosmic cvcles. What is the value of trying to fit astrology into the straight#waistcoat of scientific knowledge, when its technique and basic philosophy enable one to escape from the prison into which sci#ence has put man's mind? Would it not be more worthwhile for us to build up astrology onits own foundations and thus present it as a means to complemenl the scientific emphasis and to re#orient the consciousness and thinking ofour modern civilization which has lost contact with its vital roots in the creative rhythms of life? . . . Science gives us knowledge, nothing more. It has nothing to say concerning the why of the universe, and everything dealing with the understanding and the significance of individual human values and goals is outside its domain. . . . astrology's gift to mankind is its capacity to solve and explain that which science cannot and does not attempt to do. We need more vision, more constructive imagination, if we would free ourselves from our present bondage to analytical and mathematical details, to statistical methods. The whole is al#ways more than the sum ofits parts and no collection ofseparate data, however complete, on the outward behavior and charac#teristics of a person, will ever reveal him as a living human being with a life purpose of his own.
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