"Ancient civilization saw nothing absurd in the claims of astrology, nothing more than some educated and thoroughly scientific people see in them today. Legal astrology, through which the fate and deeds of men and peoples could be foreseen, appeared, and it still appears today, not yet more unphilosophical or unscientific than natural astrology or astronomy, through which the events of so-called raw and inanimate nature (Weather changes etc.) could be predicted. For it was not even a prophetic insight that was claimed by the followers of this absurd and really great science, but simply a great mastery of the procedure that allows the astrologer to determine certain events in a person's life based on the position of the planets at the time To foresee birth. As soon as the probability or even the simple possibility of an occult influence of the stars on the fate of man is known - and why should this fact appear less probable with stars and men than with sunspots and potatoes - astrology becomes no less an exact science as astronomy."