Tag: Philosophy

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Cosmecology: the ecology of the cosmic

  This title was suggested by Harlan T. Stetson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for a synthesis of the contemporary sciences of astronomy, electro-physics, geology and biology. In his book […]

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Cosmic

  Something vast and systematic, imbued with a sense of magnitude and order. Webster defines cosmical physics as astrophysics. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Cosmic Conditioning

  Ancient man was convinced that his destiny upon earth was ruled by the divine power that placed the stars in the heavens; that every created thing was a result of […]

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Cosmic Philosophy, or Cosmism

  A theory of cosmic evolution originated by John Fiske and advanced by him as an interpretation of Spenser. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary, Philosophy

  Colors

  In the age when an astrologer presumed to find in a chart the answer to every manner of question that could be propounded he frequently undertook to tell, for example, […]

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Conception

  According to Ptolemy the sex as well as the incidents relating to a child, prior to its birth, may be deduced from the positions of the planets at the time […]

• March 16, 2025Astronomy, C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Calendar

  A system of reckoning and recording the time when events occur; the coordination of the days, weeks, and months of the year with the cycles upon which they are based. […]