The Apocatastasis, or Progress Backwards: A New Tract for the Times (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Apocatastasis, or Progress Backwards: A New "Tract for the Times" The blessed body which revolves in a circle, (the visible heavens) is the cause of the events in the sublunary world. For both are parts of the universe, and they have a certain relation to each other. If, therefore, the cause of generation in the things which surround us, originates in the natures which are above us, it follows that the seeds of things which happen here, descend from thence. And if some one should add, since astronomy gives credibility to this, that there are apocatastatic periods of the stars and spheres, some of which are simple but others compounded, such a one will partly ac cord With the Egyptians, and partly with the Grecians. A man of this kind, therefore, will not deny that in consequenceof the same motions returning, effects also will return togeth~ er with their canses and that lives on the earth, generations, educations, dispositions and fortunes, will be the same with those that formerly existed. (synesius de Providentia.) These apocatastatic periods (wepsodox, completed revolutions, ) of the stars or spheres are of several kinds, as intimated in the above extract, and of course come round at -