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to be read universally of all men. Knowing the wickedness humanity would succumb to, and the great
evil they would accomplish if they remained as one, He foresaw the need to separate man into
languages, and kindred and tribes. The confusion of the speech of man at the tower of Babel was
taken into account before this present creation was formed. The starry host speak a language of
symbols understandable to all nations of men. The message of the stars is not conveyed through
Greek, or Hebrew, or Russian, or English, or Spanish, or Mandarin, or any of the hundreds of
languages of men. It is communicated through symbols.

I remember as a child hearing some adults speaking of the constellations. I was shown the Big and
Little Dippers (Some readers may recognize the Dipper by the name “the Plough”). They reminded
me of the dot-to-dot puzzles I was familiar with in my childhood. In my mind I could imagine a line
between the stars and see how they looked like a dipper. I found it confusing later on when I heard
adults speak of other constellations. I specifically recall someone pointing out to me the constellation
Orion. They directed my attention to the three bright stars in Orion’s belt. I expected that the other
stars in this constellation would form the outline of a man. I was sadly disappointed. I learned that
none of the figures of the zodiac are readily apparent from the stars which comprise them. There
seems to be no visual relationship at all to the characters of the zodiac and the stars associated with
them. There may be a star in the foot of one figure, a cluster of stars in the shoulder of another, but
none of the stars form what I as a child had imagined to be dot-to-dot figures in the sky.

Dot-to-Dot - NOT!

Any person looking up at the canopy of the sky would be hard pressed to find in the stars images of
a virgin, a lion, a scorpion, a bull, a man pouring water from a vase, two fish, or any of the other
figures associated with the constellations. The stars do not lend themselves naturally to such images.
This makes it all the more remarkable that there is such a profound harmony among ancient and
modern civilizations as to the number and identification of the zodiacal figures. This great
correspondence serves as evidence of the extreme antiquity of the zodiac, and proof that it arose from
a common source before mankind was scattered upon the face of the earth.

Some questions pertinent to our present study are:

• How old are the constellations of the zodiac?