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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
star-course en · NOUN
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(historical) The calculated orbital paths, movements, and transits of celestial bodies.
A very noteworthy attraction of the Almanac consists in its “star courses in the horoscopes of politicians”. Mr. Wilde says, for instance
1897, J. M. Nallasami Pillai, Siddhanta Deepika - Complete 14 volumes, page 287:Here, too, is a “ nature ”horizon, and beyond it lies the secondary plane formed of our impressions of rain, lightning, and tempest, summer and winter, moon-phases and star-courses.
1916, Oswald Spengler, “THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER CULTURES”, in THE DECLINE OF THE WEST FORM AND ACTUALIT, page 15:Thou see'st, son. how many are the bodies through which we have to pass, how many are the daimones, how vast the system of the star-courses [through which our Path doth he], to hasten to the One and Only God.
2020, Jacob Slavenburg, The Hermetic Link. From Secret Tradition To Modern Thought, page 236:“ Kar-rennui ” signifies the astronomers as namers of the star-courses, from Kar, a course, an orbit, and renn, to name
1881, A book of the beginnings : containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace, page 474:
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