Calendar and Eclipse Interrelationships - Chapter VII - June 1967

Kenneth C Herrmann

Before we can solve the logic of the 56-year cycle and its implications, we must see eclipses as a phenomena occurring regularly during the year. They can occur only at certain specified times. Solar eclipses occur only at the very moment of the new moon (the molad or conjunction), lunar eclipses 14.765 days (on the average) later, at the time of the full moon (or opposition). A people following a lunar calendar would soon be aware of occasional solar eclipses on the final day of the month, and lunar eclipses in mid-month. They would hardly become frightened at this expected "sign in the heavens." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library