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Degree books, page 1: The Sabians
1. Other Mystical Symbol Sets:
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2: Rational/Scientific
The "rational" sort assign career traits, degree by degree. These are presumably weighted to birthdays & so represent the sun's position:
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Postscript No. 1: And here's one that got away:
Entry 306 in Gardner's Bibliotheca Astrologica:
Engel (Johann) Astrologicall Opticks: wherein are represented the Faces of every Signe, with the Images of each Degree in the Zodiack; thereby describing the Nature and Quality of every Person, &c. Compiled at Venice by Johann Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus. Translated by R. Turner. 12mo. London, 1655.
To which Gardner adds:
Collation (xvi) 184 pp. This work was written by J. Angelus, who had it from a learned Jew, Even Ezra, who in his turn obtained it from the Egyptians. There are Prefaces by William Lilly and John Gadbury. It is a fine work.
This same book also turns up again in Gardner, this time as entry 1083:
Under Raphael No. 2
A Description of the Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac as given in the Ancient Authors, being applicable to Genethliacal and Horary Astrology. 8vo. 60 pp. London, 1879
Further confirmation of the identity of Raphael's book is given by Sepharial in La Volasfera, pg. 47:
"The first of these [degree books] is the Theban Calendar, attributed to P. Christian, a man of singular occult attainments closely associated with the work of Eliphas Levi, the Abbe Constant. (footnote: No modern version of this work is extant, so far as we are aware - Ed. (Alan Leo)) The second is that of John Angel (Johannes Angelus) who wrote about the sixteenth century, and whose work is to be found embodied in The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, reprinted by "Raphael".
Have I got your interest yet? Now you know why I like Gardner's book so much! Anybody have a copy of either of these? I'd like to hear from you.
And another note: These faces can be found in Avraham Ibn-Ezra's The Beginning of Wisdom, which Meira Epstein translated, and Rob Hand published, in 1998. This is the "Learned Jew" to whom Gardner alludes.
Postscript No. 2: An Overview.
In A History of Horoscopic Astrology, James Herschell Holden surveys eleven sets of degree symbols, from antiquity up to 1951. Since the 1950's Holden says, there have been many more degree symbol sets, several of them shown above. On pages 203-208 he racks up the first four degrees of Sagittarius in each of these eleven sets, discovers they have nothing in common & declares them all rubbish. But that's Holden for you. 359 pages including bibliography and indices for: notes, persons and publishers, and subject and book titles.
Degree books, page 1: The Sabians
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