7 Days of the Week
7 Days of the Week
Days of the Week:-
The seven days of the week have been the outcome of the influence of the seven creative planets and give the names of the days of the week, in every land or clime.
Take any nation you may choose, this fact remains the same, and is so expressed in almost every language, Chinese, Assyrian, Hindu, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, German or English. In modern languages Monday or Moonsday in English becomes Montag in German or Lundi (Lune) in French, Lunes in Spanish, and so on until one comes to Saturday, or Saturn’s day, the day on which God ordered the Hebrews that no work should be done, and in giving them this command He said: “It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever.”1 And, strange as it may seem, Saturday, year by year, in our modern civilization is becoming more and more a day of rest.
In connection with this thought, it is worthy of remark that Saturn, the last planet in the series of the seven creative planets of our solar system, in all religions, Hebrew or otherwise, represents “cessation”, or rest from labor in another sense, hi this strange example on can see the connection between the seven days of the week and the seven creative planets, and it throws a new light on the verse, “God made the sun, moon and stars and appointed them for signs and for seasons and for days and for years.” Even Mr. Maunder, the eminent author of so many works on astronomy, calls attention to this strange division of the week into seven days when he says in his Astronomy of the Bible: “the period of seven days does not fit precisely into either months or seasons of the year. It is not a division of time that man would naturally adopt, it runs across all natural division of time”, but this author, not seeing or perhaps knowing the great hidden truth contained in the number 7, worried only over the point, that it was not “a division of time which man would naturally adopt.” But as everything on the earth and above the earth has its meaning, and especially its secret or soul meaning, its place, position, and number in the “order of things”, which is the highest form of design, every day of the week, every hour of the day and every minute of the hour, has both its meaning and number.
It is invariably conceded by every class of scientists that the regularity, order and system of the wonderful machinery of the heavens are beyond all comparison.
We know today that the heavenly bodies move through their orbits with such precision that in millions of years they do not vary one minute of time. We know that they exercise an influence on this earth which is felt by the various atoms in the earth, though what this force is, or with what incredible speed it acts, may forever remain a mystery. It was in dealing with this mysterious law that the ancient philosophers by study, experiments, concentration of mind, and perhaps intuition, arrived at the fixation of certain laws governing life, which may be as accurate as their discovery that the “precession of the Equinoxes takes place once in every 25,827 years”.
It is from these wonderful students of Nature that we have received the first idea as to the divisions of the Zodiac into twelve periods of 30 degrees, and further, that each period produces a definite and well-known influence on the earth and on human beings born in any of its twelve periods. They further subdivided these 30-degree periods into divisions of three periods of 10 degrees each, in which the planets are also found to have an influence.