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varies according as the sun is in the ascendant, in the ecliptic or in
declension? And in their horoscopes do they make this variation the basis
of the difference of treatment and of length of life and hour of death? Is
there not a distinction between declension and the sun‟s being in the
ecliptic, and likewise between sunset and the sun‟s being towards setting?
Is there any way to believe this?‟ If it were not that he hears it in astrological
terminology, he would probably have experimentally observed its falsity a
hundred times. Yet he goes on habitually believing in it, so that if an
astrologer says to him, `If the sun is in the ecliptic, and star A confronts,
while the ascendant is constellation B, then, should you put on a new
garment at that time, you will be killed in that garment‟; he will not put on the
garment at that time, even though he may suffer from extreme cold and
even though he hears this from an astrologer whose falsity he has
acknowledged a hundred times.

How on earth when a man‟s mind is capable of accepting such strange
statements and is compelled to acknowledge that these are properties, the
knowledge of which is a miracle for some of the prophets how does he