The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories Carl Gustav Jung including Samadhi and Meditation

including Samadhi and Meditation

and tables of phonetic and figurative (or determinative) signs

Divine revelation and the periodic appearance of messengers

From the Precursors of Nihilism to the Lost Youth and the Protest Movement

Chapter 36 * The Zodiac 761

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories Carl Gustav Jung including Samadhi and MeditationThrough much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. Within sight of the altar, they subverted Church doctrine about mankind's place in the universe.