[edwin hubble]

"-- the World soul cycling in an out of potency, and men getting dragged willy-nilly along in its train for better or worse -- seems to be implicit in this observation.

Yet from a Christian point of view, the same statement can be read as an affirmation of the "two-way street" that obtains between God and man."

One of the great astronomical cycles-of-fate interpreted by an early culture in the neolithic times may have been the 'millwheel in the sky' of the circumpolar stars seen by nordic Europeans.
This became the myth of Hamlet's Mill (no relation to Shakespeare), seen slowly turning in those long winter nights "grinding out" a different fate for humans every 2000 years. (likely governed by precession of equinoxes). These guys were pretty big on salvation-by-fate-alone. (see, opening lines of Beowulf).

[betty boop]

This became the myth of Hamlet's Mill (no relation to Shakespeare), seen slowly turning in those long winter nights "grinding out" a different fate for humans every 2000 years.

This is so interesting, edwin hubble! A very common feature of human experience over the ages is the expectation that a man's future can be discerned by casting one's gaze at the heavens.

Thank you so much for writing!