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One of the first things my parents had to do upon moving us to Georgia was to get my sisters, my
brother, and I enrolled in school. They took a couple of us to the local High School and asked an
employee for directions. This Southern woman told my father he needed to take us to the “guidance
office.” I remember my dad asking her repeatedly “Where?” The woman was pronouncing “guidance”
as “goddance” and none of us had a clue what a “goddance office” was.

Jeff Benner has produced a Lexicon of Hebrew words where he suggests various origins for words
based upon the pictograms formed by the letters. I would refer you to the graphic above of the word
for shepherd as an example. Although I believe that Jeff Benner is correct in principle, I found many
of the entries in his Lexicon unconvincing. There is a great deal of sleuthing and guesswork involved
in trying to reconstruct the origin of words when there is no historical record of their etymology. One
could wish for a Rosetta Stone that would demonstrably prove the thought attached to each character
in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. However, no such key to understanding has been discovered.

The same situation exists when one considers the subject of the constellations and their original
meaning. I find the evidence and arguments set forth by Rolleston, Seiss, Bullinger, Banks, Ken
Fleming, and others persuasive. I believe the underlying thesis they are presenting is correct. I
perceive that it harmonizes with the testimony of the Scriptures. Nevertheless, I must concur with Dr.
Danny Faulkner when he suggests that there is some ambiguity present in the constellations and the
meanings attached to them. He compares interpreting the signs in the heavens to a Rorschach Test.

The gospel in the stars thesis amounts to a sort of Rorschach test—one sees what one wants to see
in the constellations...

Here Seiss appeals to self-consistency for ultimate proof of the arrangement. That is, the three other
constellations supposedly associated with each zodiacal sign complement each other so well as to
demonstrate that the arrangement is true. Given how much of a Rorschach test that much of this
amounts to, one probably could find connections in any number of possible combinations of
constellations.
[Source: Ibid]

Rorschach (Inkblot) Test

There is a great amount of knowledge that has been lost to mankind over the millennia. Some of the