esoteric and exoteric zodiac

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The building of the Tholos at Epidaurus (360-400 BC) coincided with

the writing of Plato's Timaeus. In Timaeus, he describes the

creation of the world in accordance with two cycles. This is the key

text:

 

" This entire compound he (the creator) divided lengthways into two

parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter

X, and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with

themselves and each other at the point opposite to their original

meeting-point; and, comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon

the same axis, he made the one the outer and the other the inner

circle. Now the motion of the outer circle he called the motion of

the same, and the motion of the inner circle the motion of the other

or diverse. The motion of the same he carried round by the side to

the right, and the motion of the diverse diagonally to the left. And

he gave dominion to the motion of the same and like, for that he left

single and undivided; but the inner motion he divided in six places

and made seven unequal circles having their intervals in ratios of

two-and-three, three of each, and bade the orbits proceed in a

direction opposite to one another; and three [sun, Mercury, Venus] he

made to move with equal swiftness, and the remaining four [Moon,

Saturn, Mars, Jupiter] to move with unequal swiftness to the three

and to one another, but in due proportion. "

 

 

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