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Star-worship began at a very early date in Babylon; the idea of a correspondence between the heaven above and man beneath suggested that the planets, which move in fixed paths, determine men´s actions, for man the microcosm is a counterpart of the marcrocosm, and his soul but a spark of the fire which glows in the stars. Hence arose the terrible Babylonian idea of the Fate which rules alike stars and gods and men.

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...it began an evil career which did not end even with Copernicus and Newton.