Canturbury Cathedral's Trinity Chapel floor, in front of the
shrine of St Thomas; 12 inlaid marble roundels in the floor are
found. These marbels bare symbols of the zodiac.
12- 12 signs of the so called satanic zodiac there.
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Saint Finbar's Catholic Church NEw South Wales.
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The rose depicted on the organ has five petals which represent
the five senses;' taste, sight, hearing, smell, and touch through
which the spirit of the human being makes contact with the material
world. The rose is sometimes qualified as the "rosa mystica" and
the "rosa mundi". The former refers to Christ who by sacrifice
attains new life in God. The thorns of the rose and the crown of
thorns of the Passion Narrative have a connecting double symbolic
meaning. The "rosa mundi", i.e., the rose of the world, refers
symbolically to the developing world and the cycle of birth and
death that it shows. There is a connection here with the
rose window of the cathedrals which were often divided into twelve
segments and take for form of a wheel signifying the "wheel of
being" and has links with the astrological types. It is in
this way that the "rosa mundi" came to be connected with the
Blessed Virgin Mary. As the sea is the womb of all life on earth,
so is the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary the origin of the life of
Jesus Christ, who in turn by his sacrificial death paradoxically
brought the New Life of God to the world. These ancient symbols are
still used by contemporary artist such as Arthur Boyd whose
painting "Crucifixion and Rose" links together all the points
mentioned above.
Ok my question is this. Coz i keep getting told off by christian
teachers/friends that i should not dabble or even look at astrology
coz it is SATANIC and corrupting my soul or some thing. Yet how
come famous bastions of the christian faith have CONSTRUCTED
PHYSICAL symbols and associations with this so called SATANIC thing
called astrology?!?!? Explain that, and its not just these 2
cathedrals, churches in UK were actually consecrated to different
stars.
But surely the fact that there exists HARD EVIDENCE of association
with astrology in churches goes to show that perhaps astrology and
christianity were once ONE..
just pissed off that christian friends keep telling me that iw ill
go to hell if i check my horoscope.