The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-02-06


The Babylonian tablets which Bero-
sus quotes are now in the British mu-
scum in London. They were exhumed
from the ruins of the ancient city Of
Nineveh. They contain an account of
the deluge as the most important mes
sage to the modern world.
Professor Sayre of Oxford, a noted
orientaliSt and the author of Ancient
Empires" says of Berosus as his
torian:
"Berosus was a priest of the temple
Of Bel at Babylon and is said by Fuse.
bus and Tatian to have been a con-
temporary of Alexander the Great and
20 have lived into the reign of Antio-
chus Softer. He had therefore special
opportunities Of knowing the history
and astronomy of his country. upon
which he wrote in Greek Recent dis
coveries have abundantly established
the trustworthiness of this Manetho Of
Babylon, whose works unfortunately
are known to us only through quota
tons at second and third hand.
"Since a cylinder of Antiochus, the
SON of Selecus, has been found inscrib-
ed In Babylonian cuneiform, while BIZ
lingual fragments in cuneiform and
cursive Greek of the Seleukid age have
also been discovered and a contract In
Babylonian cuneiform, dated in the
fifth year Of the Parthian king Pako
ros, the contemporary of Domitian,
exists in the museum at Zurich, there
is no reason why Berosus should not
have been equally well acquainted with
the Greek language and the old litera-
ture of his own country. And in spite
of the fragmentary and corrupt state
in which his fragments have come
down to us we know that he was So
His account of the deluge, for instance,
agrees even in it's details with that Of
the cuneiform texts"
This is the Chaldean astronomer who
centuries ago prophesied i'll for the in
habitants Of the world when the plan
cts again should be in conjunction in
the sign Capricorn. AS to the direct
meaning of this planetary phenomenon,
however, PSYCHOLOGISTS personally are
more or less noncommittal. From
London publication called Coming
Events, however, an unnamed contrib
utor is quoted as regarding the situa-
ton with a certain degree Of credence.
He writes: "This term food, or deluge,
does not necessarily mean the total ex-
tinction by submergence of all the llv-
ing creatures of the earth, but rather
the submersion of a continent, such as
happened in the case Of the lost Lemu-
ria and Atlantis. traditions of which all
nations and people seem to possess.
Necessarily such a huge submersion
would cause fearful tidal waves in all
other lands, and to such phenomena
the Noachian record probably refers.
Whether partial satisfaction in Deem
Der, 1901, of the conditions specified by
Berosus will produce even partially
similar results Is a matter we may
safely leave to the consideration of stu
DENTS"
Since the time of Ptolemy each of the
II signs of the zodiac has been suppos-
ed to have decided influence over GER
tain cities and countries, and the expe-
rience of centuries, it is claimed, proves
that misfortunes always come to those
cities and countries whenever maletic
planets are in their signs
If this be true and there should be
even partial food in 1901, India. the
Punjab, Thrace. Bosnia, Bulgaria, Al
bania, Hesse, Mexico, Lithuania and
the city of Oxford in England would be
most likely to suffer since they are the
places over which Capricorn is said
to hold sway.
Cancer, however, will be afflicted at
the same time by the presence of Nep-
tune and by the opposition Of the other
planets in Capricorn, and as this sign
is said to rule Africa. Scotland, Hol-
land, New Zealand, Amsterdam, Cadiz,
Constantinople, Venice, Genoa, New
York. Milan and Manchester occultists
assert that these places will also be
seriously afflicted in December. 1901.
The basis of Berosus' prediction Of
another food is upon the position OF
the planets when they shall be In
Capricorn as they were in the time Of
Noah. The question for the student
of the occult is, If the planets in Capri
corn as they were at the time Of the
food were responsible for the over
wheIming of continents, will partial
arrangement of them in that sign bring
about partial recurrence of the hoody