Astronomy is considered the most ancient science. It begins at the first sight of the night sky. The starry sky appears motionless upon first glance, but with observations night after night, the sky appears to be shifting in a regular and predictable system. The constellations shift slightly westward each night. The moon drifts west to east, changing its position in the sky relative to the stars. Five other objects wander predictably through the sky, these are the planets, derived from the Greek term planetai meaning “wanderer”. While ancient and modern cultures view the heavens as being comprised of celestial bodies, they both have different views of the heavens since technology has allowed modern culture to surpass the visibility of the naked eye, science and religion were intertwined in ancient culture and separated in modern culture, and modern culture has adopted the geocentric system whereas ancient culture had a heliocentric system. …show more content…
The study of antediluvian and modern astronomy demonstrates that both contain edifications which are expressions of the ecumenical truths contained in the fundamental principles of Theosophy. The first fundamental principle of Theosophy refers to the absoluteness of the Causeless Cause of the manifested macrocosm. Immutable, perpetual, omnipresent space is a utilizable symbol to avail the mind in its endeavor to grasp that which is authentically unknowable, deity. All that manifests from that one absolute principle has the twofold aspect of consciousness and matter. The homogeneous primordial substance eventually manifests as the involute heterogeneous physical matter kenned to the physicist. Scientists are still probing for that primordial substance they intuitively