Arthur M. Young (1905-1995): Was one of the ten best aeronautical engineers of the 20th century—
inventor/designer of the Bell 47 Helicopter, the earliest and most successful commercial helicopter ever
produced (manufactured from 1946 until 1973). He was also a highly respected world class philosopher
and cosmologist the last five decades of his life. His explanation of how astrology “works” is as follows:
“I make the following propositions:
I.
That the solar system is an organon*.
II.
That the organon is a “process machine” having a number of distinct periodicities or
rhythms.
III. That said rhythms are indicated by the planets.
IV. That the direction in which planets “point” at any given time indicates, or creates, the
zeitgeist* of that time.
V.
That the pointing of the planets produces such zeitgeist because the directions are
themselves different in quality.
VI. That the planets, because of their difference of period, contribute to the different powers of
persons.
VII. That a person’s birth is an introduction into this organon. A birth is an enrollment, as it were,
to “take a course in the universe.” The birth establishes the central stance. The motion of the
planets thereafter established the scenario.
Curious that the word university is so close to the universe in which we are all students—and the
word itself, universe, “one that turns,” singles out the salient feature of the whole process, rotation. The
soul like meat on a spit is roasted, first on one side, then on another.
The soul does not just plunge blindly into life; it chooses its script much as we would choose a
course in a university. This can remove some of the negative implications of Fate.”
*Dictionary Definitions.
organon: an organ or instrument: hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may
be conducted—a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon as the title (“Novum
Organum”) of part of his treatise on philosophical methods
zeitgeist: the general set of ideas, beliefs, feelings, etc. that is typical of a particular period of history
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