![]() In addition to generous online material the site sells facsimile editions and e-texts of many books (such as Lilly's Christian Astrology) that were still in use in the late eighteenth century, and the respect shown for these old texts and for historical accuracy makes it a very useful resource. ![]() a practitioner of a form of astrological magic that sounds very like Gilbert's. ![]() Gilbert claimed to be a practitioner of what he called ‘macrocosmal astrology’, which I take to mean the use of astrology more as a tool for enlightenment than for the purpose of practical prediction etc.Īstrology is as important a cultural inheritance as the four humours, the four elements and alchemy, all of which are recognised as part of a rich symbolic language that underlies our imagination and has passed into art and literature. ![]() Most of the material on the website is comprehensible without a knowledge of the technicalities of astrology, but it was an important part of Gilbert's thought so has to be tackled. This is not intended to be a complete bibliography or introduction to astrology - I am neither an astrologer nor an expert on the subject. I have used the sources below for the astrological material on this website. ![]()
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