Astrological division of heaven (1)

Text
Iamblichus, De Mysteriis 8.3:
There is also among them (= Egyptians) another system of rule over all the elements in the realm of generation and the powers resident in them, four masculine entities and four feminine, which they assign to the sun; and another authority over the whole of nature subject to generation, which they grant to the moon. Then, distinguishing the heaven into parts, diving it into either two sections or four or twelve or thirty-six, or the double of that, or in whatever other way, they assign to these sections authorities greater or lesser in number, and again they place above them one deity who holds sway over them.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Iamblichus, De Mysteriis 8.3

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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