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St. Augustine
On Christian Doctrine
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BOOK II.
chap. 21. Superstition of astrologers
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21
.
Superstition
of
astrologers
Nor
can
we
exclude
from
this
kind
of
superstition
those
who
were
called
genethliaci
,
on
account
of
their
attention
to
birthdays
,
but
are
now
commonly
called
mathematici
.
For
these
,
too
,
although
they
may
seek
with
pains
for
the
true
position
of
the
stars
at
the
time
of
our
birth
,
and
may
sometimes
even
find
it
out
,
yet
in
so
far
as
they
attempt
thence
to
predict
our
actions
,
or
the
consequences
of
our
actions
,
grievously
err
,
and
sell
inexperienced
men
into
a
miserable
bondage
.
For
when
any
freeman
goes
to
an
astrologer
of
this
kind
,
he
gives
money
that
he
may
come
away
the
slave
either
of
Mars
or
of
Venus
,
or
rather
,
perhaps
,
of
all
the
stars
to
which
those
who
first
fell
into
this
error
,
and
handed
it
on
to
posterity
,
have
given
the
names
either
of
beasts
on
account
of
their
likeness
to
beasts
,
or
of
men
with
a
view
to
confer
honour
on
those
men
.
And
this
is
not
to
be
wondered
at
,
when
we
consider
that
even
in
times
more
recent
and
nearer
our
own
,
the
Romans
made
an
attempt
to
dedicate
the
star
which
we
call
Lucifer
to
the
name
and
honour
of
Caesar
.
And
this
would
,
perhaps
,
have
been
done
,
and
the
name
handed
down
to
distant
ages
,
only
that
his
ancestress
Venus
had
given
her
name
to
this
star
before
him
,
and
could
not
by
any
law
transfer
to
her
heirs
what
she
had
never
possessed
,
nor
sought
to
possess
,
in
life
.
For
where
a
place
was
vacant
,
or
not
held
in
honour
of
any
of
the
dead
of
former
times
,
the
usual
proceeding
in
such
cases
was
carried
out
.
For
example
,
we
have
changed
the
names
of
the
months
Quintilis
and
Sextilis
to
July
and
August
,
naming
them
in
honour
of
the
men
Julius
Caesar
and
Augustus
Caesar
;
and
from
this
instance
any
one
who
cares
can
easily
see
that
the
stars
spoken
of
above
formerly
wandered
in
the
heavens
without
the
names
they
now
bear
.
But
as
the
men
were
dead
whose
memory
people
were
either
compelled
by
royal
power
or
impelled
by
human
folly
to
honour
,
they
seemed
to
think
that
in
putting
their
names
upon
the
stars
they
were
raising
the
dead
men
themselves
to
heaven
.
But
whatever
they
may
be
called
by
men
,
still
there
are
stars
which
God
has
made
and
set
in
order
after
His
own
pleasure
,
and
they
have
a
fixed
movement
,
by
which
the
seasons
are
distinguished
and
varied
.
And
when
any
one
is
born
,
it
is
easy
to
observe
the
point
at
which
this
movement
has
arrived
,
by
use
of
the
rules
discovered
and
laid
down
by
those
who
are
rebuked
by
Holy
Writ
in
these
terms
: "
For
if
they
were
able
to
know
so
much
that
they
could
weigh
the
world
,
how
did
they
not
more
easily
find
out
the
Lord
thereof
?"
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