costumes.
The seven degrees of initiation successively conferred upon the mystic were
symbols of the seven planetary spheres, through which the soul ascended
after death (_Mon. myst. Mithra_, I, p. 316), the garments assumed by the
initiates were probably considered as emblems of those "tunics" which the
soul put on when descending into the lower realms and discarded on
returning to heaven.

55. Renan, _Marc-Aurele_, p. 579.

56. Anatole France, _Le mannequin d'osier_, p. 318. Cf. Reinach, _op. cit._
[p. 260], p. 232.

VII. ASTROLOGY AND MAGIC.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bouche-Leclercq's book _L'astrologie grecque_ (Paris, 1899)
makes it unnecessary to refer to the earlier works of Saumaise (_De annis
climactericis_, 1648), of Seiffarth (_Beitraege sur Lit. des alten
Aegypten_, II, 1883), etc. Most of the facts cited by us are taken from
that monumental treatise, unless otherwise stated.--A large number of new
texts has been published in the _Catalogus codicum astrologorum Graecorum_
(9 vols. ready, Brussels, 1898).--Franz Boll, _Sphaera_ (Leipsic, 1903) is
important for the history of the Greek and barbarian constellations (see
_Rev. archeol._, 1903, I, p. 437).--De la Ville de Mirmont has furnished
notes on _L'astrologie en Gaule au V^e siecle_ (_Rev. des Etudes
anciennes_, 1902, pp. 115 ff.; 1903, pp. 255 ff.; 1906, p. 128). Also in
book form, Bordeaux, 1904. The principal results of the latest researches
have been outlined to perfection by Boll, _Die Erforschung der {271}
antiken Astrologie_ (_Neue Jahrb. fuer das klass. Altert._, XI), 1908, pp.
104 ff.--For the bibliography of magic, cf. _infra_, notes, 58 ff.

1. Stephan. Byzant. (_Cat. codd. astr._, II, p. 235), I, 12: [Greek:
Exochotate kai pases epistemes despoina]. Theophil. Edess., _ibid._, V, 1,
p. 184: [Greek: Hoti pason timiotera technon]. Vettius Valens, VI, proem.
(_ibid._, V, 2, p. 34, 7 = p. 241, 19, Kroll ed.): [Greek: Tis gar ouk an
krinai tauten ten theorian pason prouchein kai makariotaten tunchanein].

2. Cf. Louis Havet, _Revue bleue_, Nov., 1905, p. 644.

3. Cf. _supra_, p. 146, p. 123.

4. Kroll, _Aus der Gesch. der Astrol._ (_Neue Jahrb. fuer das klass.
Altertum_, VII), 1901, pp. 598 ff. Cf. Boll, _Cat. codd. astr._, VII, p.
130.

5. The argumentation of Posidonius, placed at the beginning of the
Tetrabiblos, inspired the defense of astrology, and it has been drawn upon
considerably by authors of widely different spirit and tendencies, see
Bol