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An exploration of the universe and man's place in it. Rodney Collin examines 20th-century scientific discoveries and traditional esoteric teachings and concludes that the driving force behind everything is neither procreation nor survival, but expansion of awareness. Collin sets out to reconcile the considerable contradictions of the rational and imaginative minds and of the ways we see the external world versus our inner selves.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Full of intriguing ideas this book will set your mind racing. Springing as it does from the teachings of Ouspensky it is not an easy read, but well worth the effort. It takes the medieval and renaissance ideas of the macrocosm and microcosm and re-writes it for the modern world. This will transform your views on the solar system and the art of astrology. For those of you who would like to pursue the practical applications of this work see the books of A.T.Mann.
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As with the published works of many pioneers this is difficult to understand.Cleverer people than me will give it more stars. I bought the book because it is referenced by the Astrology book "The Round Art" by A.T.Mann who gives a much better practical, understandable, interpretation - which is a "must have" book for any Astrologer
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Astrology meets ontology
23 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
This book will not make sense to a person who has not studied quite a bit of ontological/metaphysical information and does not have a solid base in astrology. If you have all these things then this book will unfold and connect the dots in ways you cannot imagine. Astrology took on a whole new meaning for me after reading this book. I am thoroughly impressed. Brilliant and rare.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
If by chance you wish to awaken
24 Dec 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you wish to bring clarity and meaning to your search then sit and read this thought as well as emotion provoking book. Connects your existence with the universe in a way which creates wonder, awe, meaning, and if you are lucky, purpose. Definitely a tool which enables one to get a different sense of one's self as it did for me. If you also had the same experience, I would love to hear from you. Be advised though, the book and it's content is "not for everybody".
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Where do YOU stand?
22 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
Imagine, if you will, a modern chemistry course taught by Dante Aligheri, the author of The Divine Comedy, a course in which we might learn what it feels like to be an iron atom chained, as though with leg irons, to nearby atoms by ionic forces in a crystal. Now imagine a history course taught by Pythagoras, the Greek geometer, a course, perhaps, on a previously unknown geometry of statecraft. Finally, suppose that these and other courses are merely offered as preparatory to entrance into a real-life version of the Sarastro's priestly academy in Mozart's Magic Flute.
Collin's Theory of Celestial Influence is clearly meant to be read in this spirit.
No doubt, specialists in chemistry and history would as likely be horrified as entranced by this prospect. Not having a PhD in chemistry, Dante would almost certainly get some of the details, and maybe some of the important ones, wrong. Other specialists, their worldview, not to mention livelihood, threatened, would dismiss such a poetic approach as mere superstition.
But the real strength of the present work is that Collin has anticipated all of this. Collin's response (with his italics) to such people is found on page 333:
...[T]he present book is given as a basis for observation. Plausible or implausible, proven or unproven, all theory will remain theory for the reader until he has established or refuted it for himself on the basis of his own personal observation and experience. For neither belief nor disbelief, conviction or skepticism, can ever substitute for this, the only way in which the thesis of a book can affect real life and actual men.
What happens next, then, is up to you, the reader.
Collin's Theory of Celestial Influence is clearly meant to be read in this spirit.
No doubt, specialists in chemistry and history would as likely be horrified as entranced by this prospect. Not having a PhD in chemistry, Dante would almost certainly get some of the details, and maybe some of the important ones, wrong. Other specialists, their worldview, not to mention livelihood, threatened, would dismiss such a poetic approach as mere superstition.
But the real strength of the present work is that Collin has anticipated all of this. Collin's response (with his italics) to such people is found on page 333:
...[T]he present book is given as a basis for observation. Plausible or implausible, proven or unproven, all theory will remain theory for the reader until he has established or refuted it for himself on the basis of his own personal observation and experience. For neither belief nor disbelief, conviction or skepticism, can ever substitute for this, the only way in which the thesis of a book can affect real life and actual men.
What happens next, then, is up to you, the reader.
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