Rapidly expanding exploration of space is pushing back barriers of ignorance and limitation, and the human mind is being liberated from misconceptions of many sorts. Down through the ages mankind's speculation about the celestial bodies has resulted in a vast accumulation of superstitions known as astrology, which have become mesmerically fascinating to human thought. These entrenched superstitions are never ignored by the alert student of Christian Science. He knows that widely accepted false beliefs tend to act as law in one's experience unless specifically canceled out by the application of spiritually scientific truth, the law of God.
A dictionary defines "astrology" as "divination that treats of the supposed influences of the stars upon human affairs and of foretelling terrestrial events by their positions and aspects." Two of the meanings of "influence" are given as "an ethereal fluid thought to flow from the stars and to affect the actions of men" and "a supposed emanation of occult power from stars."
In the Preface to Science and Health, our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, writes of "a divine influence" (p. xi). Speaking of the physical healings of Jesus' time and those of today, through Christian Science, she says: "Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'— a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
