A SHORT time ago two men were talking on the subject of astrology, and the supposed influence of the planets on individual lives, prospects, and destinies. One of these men said to his friend: "You were born under the planet Venus. Your circumstances cannot improve until this planet is in the ascendant." Such an erroneous statement illustrates the extent to which astrological superstition seems to hold sway with some. Those who accept and entertain the graven image of belief in astral control are handicapped in their struggle to rise above and overcome their difficulties, sin and sickness included. Those who have resorted to the horoscope in their desire to foreknow the events of their lives will find no correct and satisfying answer in the dark dream-mazes of occultism. Their yearning to find the pathway to peace and prosperity will be satisfied in Christian Science, the daystar of divine revelation in the firmament of spiritual understanding, in the Science which Mary Baker Eddy discovered and founded for all humanity.
The light of this truth destroys the darkness of superstition and brings to the individual consciousness the glad assurance that man and the universe are controlled, not by sun, moon, or stars, but by the spiritual law of God, which has no opposite, and which is forever unfolding good for all His children. A clear awakening call has been sounded in our Leader's words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"(p. 102): "The planets have no more power over man than over his Maker, since God governs the universe; but man, reflecting God's power, has dominion over all the earth and its hosts."
The idolatrous worship of "the host of heaven," deplored throughout Old Testament Scripture, is irreconcilable with the first command of the Mosaic Decalogue and contrary to the teachings of Christianity. In the forty-seventh chapter of his prophecy, Isaiah, lamenting Babylonish sorceries, says, "Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee;" and he adds, "Behold, they shall be as stubble."
