Joseph Crane, Co-director of The Astrology Institute, shows modern astrolgers how to apply the astrological ideas and horoscope casting techniques used in the late Hellenistic and Medieval periods. Crane offers precision and wisdom to empower the modern astrologer with a combination of time honored techniques.

A Practical Guide to Traditional Astrology

Religion & Spirituality

Crane, Joseph

New Age & Spirituality

Arhat Publications

The Beginning of Wisdom is a one of the most important of the basic medieval texts of astrology. Originally written in Hebrew by Ibn Ezra it was translated into old French by Hagin de Juif and thence into Latin by Peter of Abano among others. It served as the backbone to an extensive and quite complete textbook of astrology by Ibn Ezra which which also included The Book of Reasons, The Book of Nativities and others.

The Beginning of Wisdom (Translation From Hebrew)

History

Hand, Robert

Ibn Ezra, Abraham

Ibn Ezra, Avraham

Epstein, Meira B.

Europe

Rabbi Avraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (1089-1164) was a renowned Jewish scholar, whose accomplishments and prolific writing encompassed Biblical exegeses, Hebrew grammar, personal, national and liturgical poetry, philosophy, mathematics, geometry, astronomy and Astrology. In mainstream Judaism he is known and loved to this day mainly for his Bible commentary and his poetry, whereas to the Christian European world he was introduced through his astrological and scientific works. The Book of Nativities (Sefer Ha'Moladot) is Meira Epstein's third publication in the series of English translations of Avraham Ibn Ezra's astrological works. The other two are The Beginning of Wisdom (Reshit Hokhma), 1998, and The Book of Reasons (Sefer Ha'Te'amim), 1994. Together, these three, written by Ibn Ezra in this sequence, make one integral body of the astrological doctrine: Introduction of the fundamentals, further theoretical explanations, the application to the individual birth chart and prognosis work. Moladot is a prime example of Ibn Ezra's approach to astrology, in which he combines his Jewish religious beliefs and his philosophical principles with down-to-earth astrological doctrine and techniques.

The Book of Nativities and Revolutions

Ibn Ezra, Avraham Ben Meir

World

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