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Spiritual_Roadmap_by_Ghazali, page : 143
It is curious, however, that if we replace the above expressions by expressions from astrology,
they admit
the difference of times as reasonable. We may say, for example: `Is it not the case that the
horoscope 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,
they admit
the difference of times as reasonable. We may say, for example: `Is it not the case that the
horoscope 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,