Astral sign

Take thou in the first place the eldest or first-born child of Saturn, not the vulgar, 9 parts of the sabre chalibs of the God of War [iron], 4 parts. Put this latter into a crucible, and when it comes to a melting redness, cast therein the 9 parts of Saturn, and immediately this will redden the other. Cleanse thou carefully the filth that arises on the surface of the saturnia, with saltpetre and tartar, four or five times. The operation will be rightly done when thou seest upon the matter an astral sign like a star [the Star RegulusJ. 

Now go back to typing experiences not by their astral signs, but by their objects. If the experiences were significantly different in their intrinsic properties, then even if the objects of the experiences were the same, it seems to me there would be no reason to expect this sameness to be manifest to the subject. 

Central to my investigation in this chapter will be Jesus s claim in the Gospel of Judas that each person follows his astral destiny (42,7-9). It is far from clear, however, what this means in the context of the text itself Is it a general statement, or does Jesus simply mean each disciple has his own star Given that in this document, the twelve disciples are probably types of the twelve signs of the zodiac, how do we contend with Judas s role as the thirteenth, and his connection to astral destiny Does Jesus have an astral destiny Finally, is there a seminal relationship between the cosmological sections of the text and the dialogical sections in which Jesus teaches Judas about the error of the stars ... 

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