Chaldeans
First a Semitic tribe, but later the magi of Babylonia, astrologers and diviners. From among them came “the wise men from the East.” We know little of Chaldaean astrology, but some idea of their teachings are to be gleaned from the Chaldaean Oracles. With them Astrology was a religion, but of a far different type from any which has survived to modern times. The Chaldaean priests were famous Astrologers. They held that the world is eternal, without beginning or end; that all things are ordered by Divine providence; and that the Sun, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter are “interpreters,” concerned […]