ASTRAL WORSHIP
The Truth Seeker Company (New York). Scarce First Edition, 1895. By J.H. Hill. Includes a moveable Astral Wheel to inside front board, only found in the first edition. 128 pages, with beautiful b&w illustrations throughout. Credited with writing one of the first comprehensive 19th-century studies on Astral Worship, Dr. Hill explores the foundations of astrology and explores its influence on religions, rituals and holidays that are commonly practiced today. Astral worship - or Astrolatry - is the worship of stars and other heavenly bodies as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies (often found in the Babylonian, and Greco-Roman religions). The most common instances of this are sun gods and moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Contents include:
- Geocentric System of Nature
- Sacred Numbers
- Twelve Thousand Year Cycle
- Ancient Triad
- God Sol
- Ancient Cosmogony
- Fall and Redemption of Man
- Incarnation of God Sol
- Fable of the Twelve Labors
- Anniversaries of Solar Worship
- Personifications of the Divisions of Time
- Zodiacal Symbols of Sun Worship
- Signs of the Cross
- Future Rewards and Punishments
- Jewish or Ancient Christianity
- The Prophecies
- Roman or Modern Christianity
- Freemasonry and Druidism
- The Sabbath
- Pious Frauds
Front interior hinge cracked, but binding remains firm; light aging and wear to boards; rubbed corners and edges; chafed spine ends; toning to pages; interior is clean and free of markings, save the occasional age spotting.
