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You, who represent the stars as the leaders of our birth, our life and the whole world, tell me: what other sky will you spread above the very stars and above it will you place another new and new one, so that there will be someone to guide those who lead? Under one star will be born one king and many other people, of whom one is good and the other is evil, one is a vitiator, another is a merchant, the third is a vagabond, and another is made arrogant by the high throne. For many, born under different stars, the fate is equal both at sea and in war. Those who were connected by the stars were not connected by the same end. And others, although separated by the stars, were united by the same death. If everyone has their own first necessity, then this is a pure fable. And if the common strongest still dominates over it, and there are stars opposite to the stars, then who mixed them up? For whoever combined can, if he wants, dissolve the union, and if God did this, then how did that which replaced my God with you become the first, if you do not subordinate God himself to your stars? If there is no ruler, then how will the world stand? I don’t see this possibility, even if someone wanted to expel God with such reasoning. For someone needs to control: either God, or the stars... Tell me about your horoscopes, about the small parts of the zodiac circle and about the measures of the path; Destroy my laws of life - the fear of the wicked and the hope of the good, fighting to the end! If everything is given by the circle of stars, then I am also attracted by its rotation. And the very desire is produced in me by the same circle; I have no willpower or mind that would lead me to good, but heaven also draws me to this. Do not mention to me about the great glory of Christ, the star of the gospel, which from the east guided the Magi to the city where Christ, the flightless son of the mortal race, shone! It is not one of those whose interpreters are astrologers, but it is unusual and has not appeared before, but has been noticed in Jewish books. From them, having foreknew about the star, the Chaldeans, who dedicated their lives to theology of astronomy, when they were surprised to distinguish it from the many stars they observed and noticed that with a new radiance it was rushing from the east through the air to the Jewish land, they concluded about the birth of the King. And at the very moment when the astrologers bowed to the King together with the celestials, their concern for their art fell away (2). You might be interested in: