In his 1990 book Astrology, the Evidence of Science, Dr. Percy Seymour propounded a new theory on the ancient science of astrology. His scientific credentials are impressive. Seymour holds a doctoral degree in astrophysics, was senior lecturer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, the principal lecturer on astronomy at Plymouth Polytechnic Institute and director of its planetarium. Seymour himself looked askance at astrology until 1984 when a BBC crew interviewed him briefly on his opinion of astrology.
The Missing Mechanism
Seymour’s standard reply was that he could not think of any mechanism to explain how the planets, the sun, and the moon affected human life. Pondering this endless enigma, he then discovered a mechanism that could serve as the missing link between the cosmos and humans. As stated in his book, his theory of astrology now is plain and simple: “...astrology is not mystical or magical but magnetic."
It can be explained by the tumultuous activity of the sun, that is churned to a lather by the motion of the planets, then borne earthward on the solar wind and perceived by us through the magnetic field while we grow inside our mother's wombs.
Magnetic disturbances that surround our planet earth are the key to providing the ancient axiom “as above, so below” for disturbance creates perceptible action, which, in turn, can be observed and analyzed. In fact, Seymour’s entire theory of how astrology works is based on magnetism.
For example, the way a womb might perceive magnetic stimulus is through the nervous system. In the same way that a baby resembles his parents in terms of physical characteristics, so its magnetic antennae is similarly wired, and resonates to the mother and/or father’s same magnetic frequencies.
Seymour gives a reminder that the very earth itself is a magnet, surrounded by a magnetic field that is 20 to 30 times larger than the actual planet. Therefore, magnetic attractions, or “disturbances,” are keenly absorbed. When a baby is ready to be born, it is a magnetic signal from a planet, received by the nervous antennae in the mother’s womb that triggers the actual moment of birth.
Seymour has thus established a direct correlation between earth and sky. If astronomy is the study of planets and stars, then the celestial science of astrology falls under the definition given to it by American essayist and transcendental philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote that “astrology is astronomy applied to the affairs of men.”
Sources: Dr. Percy Seymour, Astrology, The Evidence of Science
Sobel, Dava, Dr. Zodiac, Omni Magazine, December 1989. p. 66.
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