What may be the world's oldest fragments of the
Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found
the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in
existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the
university library for almost a century. July 22 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021
The Quran literally
meaning "the recitation"is the central religious text of Islam, which
Muslims believe to be a revelation from God. Muslims believe the Quran was
verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel gradually over a
period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when
Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Islamic
tradition relates that Muhammad received his first revelation in the Cave of
Hira, about 3 kms from Mecca, during one of his isolated retreats to the
mountains [1].
Posts on
this blogsite have shown how important events like this one here can be related
to eclipses that have occurred prior to the event. We will see here that the chart for the lunar eclipse of 25 April
609 CE drawn for Mecca contains the event so central to Islam – the revelation
of the Holy Book. Notice that the
eclipse Moon is placed in the 9th house. Deborah Houlding [1] includes
the following among rulership of the 9th house.
Where we reach out into the unknown in
search of widening our knowledge and understanding. Dreams, visions, inspired thoughts,
divination, astrology, mysticism, philosophy, beliefs; the desire to unite with
something greater than oneself. Religion and clergy of any kind. This house represents guidance and advice from
those more knowledgeable than ourselves.
The
eclipse forms hard aspects to Neptune
and the TNP Poseidon. Martha Wescott provides the following
keyphrases for Neptune-Poseidon:
Neptune-Poseidon:
to connect with the spiritual concept of ego-transparency and transcendence; to be susceptible and open to spiritual
influences – there is a heightened receptivity to the unconscious.
If we now
progress the eclipse chart to 22 December 609 CE, when the Quran was revealed
to the Prophet, we find that progressed Ascendant has reached a conjunction to
Poseidon triggering the entire eclipse configuration!
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