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concepts.
Jesus is said to be resurrected
after 3 days in the cave. We
celebrate Jesus' birthday on
December 25, three days after
the Winter Solstice of December
22.
(Remember in the old days light bulbs didn't exist the only light was the Sun)
John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world."
(The "light of the world" is the Sun.)
John 9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (The "light of the world" is
the Sun.)
Matthew 4:16 The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the
land of the shadow of death a light has dawned." (The light is the Sun)
Matthew 17:2 His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.
John 1:3-8 through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has
been made. (Without the Sun nothing would grow and we'd all be dead.) In him was life,
and that life was the light of men. (The light is the Sun.) The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it (the Sun removes the darkness). There came a man
who was sent from God; his name was John. He [John] came as a witness to testify
concerning that light (the Sun), so that through him all men might believe. He [John]
himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light (the Sun)
that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
John 3:19-20 This is the verdict: Light (the Sun) has come into the world, but men loved
darkness (night time) instead of light (the Sun) because their deeds were evil (criminals
do their crimes at night). Everyone who does evil hates the light (the Sun), and will not
come into the light (the Sun) for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 12:35-36 Then Jesus told them, "You are going to have the light (the light is the
Sun) just a little while longer (the Sun will set soon). Walk while you have the light (the
light is the Sun), before darkness (night time) overtakes you. The man who walks in the
dark (at night) does not know where he is going. Put your trust in the light (the light is the
Sun) while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." When he had finished
speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them (i.e. the sun set, because Jesus is the Sun).
John 12:46 I have come into the world as a light (the Sun), so that no one who believes in
me should stay in darkness.
Ephesians 5:14 Christ (the Sun) will shine on you.
Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven (the celestial sphere above); from
whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (the Sun). (I.e. we should look
upwards to the celestial sphere above to find our story.)
Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Luke 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (I.e. the story is about the passage
of the year.)
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(By the way the Old Testament also talks about God as being the Sun)
Psalms 84:11 "the Lord God is a sun..."
Deuteronomy 4:24 "For the LORD your God is a consuming fire," (the Sun is a
consuming fire.)
Malachi 4:2 "the Sun of Righteousness..."
The journey of Jesus is the journey of the Sun passing through the Zodiac
The Sun passes through Capricorn, the
goat (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) The starting date
is December 22, the Winter Solstice, the
shortest day of the year, when the Sun is
at its lowest ascension. This is the
beginning of the Sun's annual journey.
By December 25 it becomes apparent the
Sun is once again climbing into the sky
on it's annual journey the sun rises
slightly farther North and the days begin
to get longer. We celebrate the birth of
our Savior the Sun who will make the
harvest grow so we will have food to eat.
The Sun passes through Aries, the Ram Jesus, the Sun, is now in Aries, and becomes
or Lamb (March 21 - April 19) The
the Lamb of God. (A young sheep is a Lamb,
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FOOTNOTES:
1. The writer of that portion of the Gospel according to Matthew which treats of the place
in which Jesus was born, states that he was born in a house. In Matthew 2:11 the Greek
word is . (Strong's Number [3614]) However, the writer of the Luke version implies
that he was born in a stable (Luke 2:7). If these accounts were contained in these Gospels
in the time of Eusebius, the first ecclesiastical historian, who flourished during the
Council of Nice (A. D. 327), it is very strange that, in speaking of the birth of Jesus, he
should have omitted even mentioning them, and should have given an altogether different
version. He tells us that Jesus was neither born in a house, nor in a stable, but in a cave.
[Eusebius's Life of Constantine, lib. 3, chs xl, xli, and xlii.]
"The tradition of the birth in a cave was widely accepted, as we see from Origen's words
about a century later: In Bethlehem the cave is pointed out where He was born, and the
manger in the cave where He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, and the rumor is in
those places and among foreigners of the Faith that indeed Jesus was born in this cave.
(Contra Celsum, I, li.) It is reproduced also in the apocryphal gospels (Pseudo-Matt., xiii,
ap. Bonaccorsi, op. cit., 159-163; Protevang. of James, xvii sqq., Bonaccorsi, 155-159;
Gospel of the Infancy, II-IV, Bonaccorsi, 163-164)." Catholic Encyclopedia article on
"Bethlehem" (1910)
(Also see St. Justin Martyr Dial., lxxviii)
Allegorically the cave is the dark abode from which the wandering Sun starts in the
morning. As the Dawn springs fully armed from the forehead of the cloven Sky, so the
eye first discerns the blue of heaven, as the first faint arch of light is seen in the East. This
arch is the cave in which the infant is nourished until he reaches his full strengthin
other words, until the day is fully come.
Note how all the stars disappear at Dawn just before the Sun
arrives, from whence we get the allegorical story of King Herod
(a personification of Darkness, which reigns supreme at night)
ordering the death of all the children.
In January it is traditional in church to start reading through one of the Gospels depicting
the life of Jesus. The Jesus story always begins with Jesus visiting John the Baptist, who
baptizes with water. (Mark 1:1-13; Matthew 3; Luke 3) And that is the beginning of the
allegory. Jesus is a personification of the Sun; John the Baptist is a personification of
Aquarius. Jesus [the Sun], visits John the Baptist [Aquarius].
The ecliptic is the circuit the Sun travels along during the year. The ecliptic is a great
circle inscribed on the celestial sphere. The ecliptic is also a circle on a planisphere.
Jesus, a personification of the Sun, continues on his way along the ecliptic, or "Galilee".
So in February the Sun moves into Pisces, the two fish, and in the Jesus Story, Jesus
leaves John the Baptist, apparently unconcerned about his fate, and visits Simon and his
brother Andrew, who are two fishermen. Simon and Andrew are personifications of the
two fish of Pisces. (Mark 1:16; Matthew 4:18; Luke 6:14; John 1:41) During this season faithful
Catholics, Episcopalians, and Mohammedans observe Lent, when they abstain from meat
and live upon the fishes. Christians also use the fish as a symbol of their religion.
The allegorical Jesus story continues to parallel the passage of the seasons of the year.
I'll quickly skim through it.
Afterwards comes the story of Jesus' transfiguration (Mark 9:2-13; Matthew 17:1-13; Luke
9:28-36). Jesus goes to a high mountain top and shines very brightly, just as the Sun is
high in the sky and shines warmly and brightly during these Summer months. (For more on
the Transfiguration see commentary by Bishop John Shelby Spong.)
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Harvest time comes about three quarters of the way through the year, and its the
happiest time of the year. And about three quarters of the way through the Jesus story is
his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, which is the happiest part of the story (Mark 11:1-11;
Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:28-44; John 12:12-16) Everyone knows him and is happy to see him.
Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem is an allegory for the Suns triumphant entry into
Virgo, because that means its harvest time, the best time of year. Harvest time is "The
Kingdom of Heaven" time which Jesus refers to in earnest as coming soon throughout the
story up to here.
After the harvest the Sun moves from Virgo into Libra,
the Scales. (September). These are the "Scales of Justice."
The harvest has been gathered, it is now time to sell the
harvest. Scales are used in buying and selling the harvest.
At the end of harvest time, when there is nothing left to sell,
the money changers pack up and leave. The Bible says,
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were
buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the
money changers. (Mark 11:12-19; Matthew 21:12) Jesus, the
Sun, representing the passage of time, moves out of Libra,
the Scales of Justice, and the money changers pack up and
leave, because the season has passed and they are finished
selling the harvest.
As we enter the season of Autumn the leaves fall from
the trees and the trees appear to wither. It is at this point in
the story that Jesus is said to curse the fig tree and make it wither, a story which makes no
sense if Jesus were a real person, but it makes perfect sense when understood as an
allegory. It is simply Autumn, and Jesus, the Sun, who makes the seasons pass, causes the
leaves to fall from the trees (Mark 11:20-25; Matthew 21:18-22)
Libra, the Scales of Justice
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In the Jesus story we then have the Last Supper (THE ABOVE IMAGE OF
WHITE PEOPLE WAS THE ART WORK OF MICHAEL ANGELO, AN IMAGE
OF THEMSELVES. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS THE ASTROLOGICAL
SECRET, NOW REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME TO ALL PEOPLE,
ESPECIALLY THE DARK AND LIGHT SKIN MOORS), where Jesus and his
twelve disciples, a reference to the twelve zodiac months of the year, recline and eat the
harvest. (Mark 14:12-26; Matthew 26:17-30; Luke 22:7-38) This is the natural time of year to
have a huge feast. In America we celebrate Thanksgiving and have a huge feast of food.
We eat the flesh of the fruitfiguratively the flesh of Jesus, who personifies the Sun
which make the fruit grow; and we drink winethe blood of the grapes, figuratively the
blood of Jesus, who personifies the Sun which made the grapes grow. Without this food
we would perish.
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Hence the story is circular, just as the years are circular. A new year begins after the
old year ends.
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The whole Bible is mostly astrological allegories. The reason the book of Revelation
doesn't make any sense is because it's an astrological allegory. It makes sense when you
start to interpret it in that manner. [See The Book of Revelation]. The Old Testament also
originated as an astrological allegory. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of Virgo
and Bootes, the constellation next to Virgo. The whole story of Moses is an astrological
allegory. There is no evidence that any of it actually happened, and quite a lot of evidence
that it didn't. So is the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, the youngest and most
favorite of twelve brothers. The number 12 again is a tip off that this is an astrological
allegory of the 12 months of the year and the 12 signs of the Zodiac.
Not only that, solar mythology goes beyond the Bible and can be shown to be the
basis of most of our oldest and most cherished folk tales and fables. Little Red Riding
Hood, Jack and the Bean Stalk, Cinderella, Homer's Odyssey (Homer is the Sun who
takes a long journey, yearning to return to his wife, Penelope, who represents Virgo.
Homer then shoots an arrow through twelve axes, representing the twelve months of the
year; a feat only the Sun can do) they all trace their roots back to solar mythology as
astrological allegories. They are creative personifications of natural phenomenon. (For
more information see the rare book Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning by John
Thackray Bunce, 1878.)
It's not surprising in our present culture of digital watches and wall calendars that
we've lost the original astronomical meaning of these stories. Today most people never
look at the stars or pay any attention to the position of the Sun in the sky. There's a whole
lot of answers to be found in this area of research, and hardly anyone is looking in this
direction.
CONCLUSION
I will close on a positive note that all of this study of the Jesus story which has led to a
study of the Seasons of the Year can actually lead us towards a more spiritual
understanding of life. A Jewish scholar, Arthur I. Waskow, in 1985 concluded his book
Seasons of our Joy about the Jewish holidays of the year, saying:
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HISTORY.
If Jesus actually existed and did all the miraculous things he is said to have done then
surely many people would have written about it during and immediately following Jesus'
life. Writing was common at the time, yet an extensive search by many scholars over
centuries has turned up nothing. The very few references to Jesus that allegedly date back
to his lifetime are clearly forgeries, forged no doubt hundreds of years later by people
who realized this embarrassing lack of evidence needed to be rectified (see Joseph
Wheless Forgery in Christianity).
Even if we ignore the evidence that they are forgeries, the very small number of these
questionably authentic writings that allegedly date back to his alleged lifetime are still far
too few. There should be a huge wealth of writing about this person that was written
during his lifetime.
Jesus allegedly had crowds of thousands follow him around. Once he fed 5000 people
with only a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish (Mark 6:39-44). Later he repeated
the miracle again feeding a crowd of 4000 people (Mark 8:1-9). Jesus cured sick people
miraculously and raised people from the dead. He changed water into wine at a wedding
reception. He exorcised demons. He commanded 2000 pigs to rush into a lake and drown
themselves, inciting the people of the nearby town and countryside, who asked him to
leave. (No mention is made of what happened to the poor pig hearder whose livelihood
must have been ruined. Mark 5:1-20).
Wherever Jesus went a crowd gathered and wondered in amazement who this person was.
Jesus was a very controversial person. Finally he got himself into so much trouble that
huge crowds of Jews demanded his execution. There was a controversial trial followed by
his public execution. Three days later he is seen walking around alive again. And no one
wrote any of this down when it allegedly happened?
Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the
Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and
resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it
could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being
written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after the alleged event, since no one makes any
reference to a Gospel of Mark, or any other Gospel, prior to this time.)
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It's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most
important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People
wrote letters. Historians wrote commentaries on current events. The Romans wrote and
kept legal documents about trials. It's considered one of the best documented periods of
history. Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus; no one painted a portrait of this
Jesus; no one drew a sketch of this Jesus; no one cast a coin depicting this Jesus; no one
made a statue of this Jesus; no one makes any reference whatsoever to this Jesus. The
historical evidence is overwhelmingthe Jesus of the Bible never existed.
NEGATIVE EVIDENCE PRINCIPLE
When is absence of evidence, evidence of absence? In general a mere lack of evidence is
not sufficient to conclude a proposition is false. We must also demonstrate:
1. All of the evidence used to support the proposition is untenable.
2. Adequate tenable evidence should exist.
3. A thorough search for this tenable evidence has been made and none has been
found.
At this point I leave it to the reader to decide for him or her self whether the above three
points have been satisfied or not, as every individual must ultimately decide what one
chooses to believe. Any counter-argument will be an attack against one of the above three
points. We can not prove that Jesus never existed, just as we can not prove that Santa
Claus never existed. Quite a lot of people believe Santa Claus exists (mostly young
people).
Being suspicious of "The Jesus Story is a Biography" theory frees our thinking and
allows us to look in other places for the origin of the story. Indeed we will discover that
the Jesus Story is not unique. We will find that the motif of a crucified savor who dies
and is resurrected was common in other religions prior to the alleged time of Jesus. We
will also discover that the story of Jesus' one year ministry parallels that of the Sun's
annual journey through the Zodiac and the Sun's apparent death in Autumn and
subsequent resurrection in Spring.
We will pursue these studies in parts 2 & 3. First let's examine what other scholars
throughout history have said about the existence of Jesus.
David W. Deley (2003)
Matthew, Chapter 2
LATE ORIGIN OF STORY
The earliest Christians, viz., the Ebionites, Nazarenes, Corinthians, &c., excluded as
forgeries the two first chapters of Matthew, containing the miraculous conception and
birth, declaring them to be spurious, and not to be found in the genuine copies of
Matthew. Both Saint Jerome and Epiphanius allow that this is true.1
The writer of that portion of the Gospel according to Matthew which treats of the place in
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which Jesus was born, states that he was born in a house. In Matthew 2:11 the Greek
word is . (Strong's Number [3614]) However, the writer of the Luke version implies
that he was born in a stable (Luke 2:7). If these accounts were contained in these Gospels
in the time of Eusebius, the first ecclesiastical historian, who flourished during the
Council of Nice (A. D. 327), it is very strange that, in speaking of the birth of Jesus, he
should have omitted even mentioning them, and should have given an altogether different
version. He tells us that Jesus was neither born in a house, nor in a stable, but in a cave.2
[See Eusebius's Life of Constantine, lib. 3, chs xl, xli, and xlii.(on CD-R)]
In Matthew 2:4 the Magi ask about "the Christ", referring to Christ Jesus. This again
betrays the late origin of this chapter. Speaking of Jesus as "the Christ" is equivalent to
speaking of Tacitus as "the Historian," or George Washington as "the General," or of any
individual as "the Mister," without adding a name by which either could be distinguished.
Therefore, it would have no sense or meaning, unless it was written after Christianity was
already well established and the term "Christ" had already became exclusive to meaning
Christ Jesus.3
COMPARATIVE RELIGION:
This story of the child who threatens the reign of a ruling monarch is a common motif
found in many ancient religions. It is also found in the Old Testament with Moses as a
baby being placed in a basket and sent down the river to avoid the mass slaughter of all
the children.
Darkness hears a child will be born that will overthrow him.
Indeed when the Sun rises it will conquer the darkness. So
darkness orders all the stars extinguished. Allegorically all the
children of the land are to be killed. What better way to insure
darkness rules than to murder all those little points of light. All
the stars are killed, but the sun survives the slaughter and rises
anyway, conquering the darkness.
The Players
Jesus The Sun. Comparative Religion shows that all the ancient religions were forms
of sun worship. The story of Jesus is just another allegorical personification of the sun as
will be shown here.
Herod Night; Darkness. We have seen in the lecture on Night how Darkness is the
original evil. The ancient religious stories personified the evil Darkness and gave it
names. In this case the name for Darkness is Herod.
Darkness reigns supreme at night until overpowered by the rising sun in the morning. The
sun rising in the morning is figuratively a form of the sun being born. Just before the sun
rises all the stars disappear. Figuratively this is Darkness trying to save itself by killing all
the stars. What better way to keep things dark than to kill all those little points of light.
But Darkness fails to kill the sun. The sun rises, overpowering the Darkness, the darkness
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one who has been born king of the Jews? [where is the Sun?] We saw his star [the Sun's
"star" is the bright planet Venus, which is always seen near the Sun] when it rose in the
east [the Sun and its star always rise in the east] and have come to worship him." [Since
Jesus is a personification of the Sun this shows the whole religion was originally about
Sun worship.]
When King Herod [night] heard this he was disturbed, [night is worried there is a Sun
that will rise (be born) and conquer him.] and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called
together all the people's chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the
Christ [the Sun] was to be born. [Note the use of the word "Christ" here to refer to Jesus.
This betrays the late origin of the text.] "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is
what the prophet has written:
[Following is a garbled quote of Micah 5:2 This is an attempt to tie this new story with
the established Jewish stories, which are also astrological. However, the quote isn't exact,
indicating the writer isn't familiar with the original Hebrew but is instead using a poor
Greek translation of the original Hebrew. (Note that Judah is not the same as Judea.)]
"But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of my people Israel."
Then Herod [night] called the Magi [astronomers] secretly and found out from them the
exact time the star [Venus] had appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem [the house of
Virgo] and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child [see if the Sun is in Virgo].
As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the
east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was [the Sun rises
in the east, and sets in the west]. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed [seeing the
Sun is always nice]. On coming to the house [the zodiac house of Virgo], they saw the
child [the Sun] with his mother Mary [Virgo], and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of frankincense
and of myrrh. [Gold is bright and shiny like the Sun. The scent of frankincense when
burned was considered by the ancient people to be evidence of God on Earth.] And
having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by
another route. [The three bright stars in the belt of Orion return to their starting point by
setting in the west and going under the earth back to their starting point, thus returning by
another route.]
THE ESCAPE TO EGYPT
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he
said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. [Egypt is the underworld, below
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the horizon. Hence the Sun, along with the constellation Virgo (Mary) and Bootes
(Joseph) sets at the end of the day and goes below the horizon.] Stay there until I tell you,
for Herod [night] is going to search for the child [the Sun] to kill him."
[Thus begins the common motif of a prophesied child (the Sun) who threatens the reign
of a ruling monarch (darkness).]
So he [the constellation Bootes (Joseph)] got up, took the child [the Sun] and his mother
[Virgo (Mary)] during the night [this is when the story takes palace] and left for Egypt
[went below the horizon], where he stayed until the death of Herod [Herod "dies" when
the Sun rises in the east the next morning].
[The Sun sets, along with the constellations Bootes and Virgo, and it is night time. They
all stay underneath the earth (Egypt) until sunrise, when the Darkness of Night (Herod)
will die.]
And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called
my son." ["Out from under the world the Sun will rise." This is an attempt to tie this story
with the established Jewish stories, which are also astrological.]
When Herod [night] realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and
he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old
and under, in accordance with the time [the time of Sunrise]he had learned from the Magi
[the astronomers who watch the sky and know when the Sun will rise].
[Darkness kills all the stars at Dawn, just before Sunrise, but
fails to kill the Sun. The Sun rises, ending the reign of darkness of the night.]
Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: [Jer. 31:15 Another
attempt to tie this story with the established Jewish stories, which are also astrological.]
"A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more."
THE RETURN TO NAZARETH
After Herod [night] died, [night "dies" when the Sun rises in the morning. Thus "After
the sun rose..."] an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt [below the
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horizon] and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel
[above the horizon] for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead." So he got
up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
[The Sun rises, along with Virgo and Bootes. The "land of Israel" is the hemisphere
above us. "Egypt" is the hemisphere below us, below the earth, under the world, the
underworld', where things go when they set in the west, and where things come from
when they rise in the east.]
But when he heard that Archelaus [Dawn] was reigning in Judea in place of his father
Herod [night], he was afraid to go there. [The constellations Virgo and Bootes don't show
themselves during the day.] Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district
of Galilee [the ecliptic], and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled
what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene." [The word
"Nazarene" is not to be found anywhere in the Old Testament, so it's not for certain how
this fulfills any prophecy. Nazarite = "one separated". Nazareth = "the guarded one".]
[THIS ENDS MATTHEW CHAPTER 2]
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Since the year is circular, in that the four seasons of the year
just cycle endlessly, it's somewhat arbitrary where we declare the start of the year to be.
There are, however, a few natural places to start the year.
One natural place to start the year is at the Winter Solstice (December 22). This is the
day the Sun is lowest in the sky, making this the shortest day of the year. From this point
on the Sun gets higher and higher in the sky each day, making each day longer and
longer.
Another often used place to start the year is at the Vernal Equinox (also called the
Spring Equinox; March 21). On this day the Sun rises directly in the East, and day and
night are of equal length. It's around here the harvest cycle begins. Time to plant some
crops. The Astrology section of the newspaper always begins with Aries, Mar. 21, which
is the Spring Equinox.
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The Jewish calendar begins with the month of Nisan, around mid-March to early
April, a date hovering around the Vernal Equinox. The twelve months of the Jewish
calendar are: 1)Nisan; 2)Iyyar; 3)Sivan; 4)Tammuz; 5)Ab; 6)Elul; 7)Tishri; 8)Cheshvan;
9)Kislev; 10)Tebeth; 11)Shebat; 12)Adar. This is a lunar calendar synced to the phases of
the moon. A new moon begins a new month. The twelve lunar months total 354 days. To
keep this calendar somewhat in sync with the solar year, a 13th "leap month" is
occasionally added, called Adar II. To further confuse things, the Jewish New Year,
"Rosh Hashana," is celebrated on the first of Tishri, the seventh month, sometime in
September or early October, a date hovering around the Autumnal Equinox.
The Gregorian Calendar we use today sets the start of the new year on January 1, ten
days after the Winter Solstice. Here is the explanation how that came to be:
"The 25th of December is the winter solstice by the Julian calendar. Julius Caesar
adopted what is now known as the Julian solar year of three hundred and sixty five and
one-quarter days. The three hundred and sixty five days were assigned to a year of twelve
months, and the remaining quarter of a day was intercalated into every fourth year,
known to us as 'the leap year'. Leap years are so called, because written in the 1604
edition of the Anglican prayer book was, 'On every fourth year, the Sunday Letter
Leapeth'. Julius Caesar began his new solar calendar of Rome with January 1st in the
year AUC 707 (45 BCE).1 Caesar did not commence the New Year on the winter solstice
(22nd December), which he knew was the true beginning of the year. He wished to
prevent disruption to the traditional, moon-regulated, commercial calendar as well as for
the purpose of general convenience. Caesar adopted the rule of the moon and started the
New Year by making it commence on the first new moon following the winter solstice.
This happened to be ten days after the solstice and, hence, our 'New Year' is not the
beginning of a new year at all. Consequently, we have at present three celebrations of the
winter solstice or New Year. We have the astronomical or true New Year on the 22nd of
December10; Christmas, the universal celebration of the rebirth of the sun -- the
resurrection of the Sun God; and, Julius Caesar's moon-fixed New Year, the 1st of
January."2
For more on calendars here are a few links:
For our purposes we'll start the year at the Winter Solstice, December 22. Three days
later, on December 25, the Sun rises 1/10 of its width further Northward, just barely
enough to be detectable by carefull observation.
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Look at the cut again. Christ then became the good shepherd of the flock. The Sun enters
the sign Aries, the lamb. He is yet young, the lamb or the young Sun God.
Christ then went out to the salvation of men. Let us see how the Sun God goes out to the
salvation of men.
The ancients had consumed the products of the year before and were praying for their
Sun God to come back and warm the earth, to bring forth vegetation, which all animal
life required. He came, and now he must go forth to the salvation of man; fit the fields for
plowing. The bull comes in here for his share of glory, and he is worshiped, because he
represents agriculture. The fields are plowed and seed is sown for a late harvest. Look at
the cut the twins represent increase.
Christ spoke of the backsliders. Every year the Sun enters the sign Cancer. June 21st to
July 22d, symbolized by the crab, which crawls backward, and all vegetation dries up and
retreats back into the earth.
This is the summer solstice, or John the Baptist, born just six months before Christ, and
who says, John III-30,
He must increase and I must decrease.
Christ became the Lion of the twelve tribes of Judah. Every year the Sun enters the sign
Leo, the lion, and becomes the Lion of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.
When? Why, the 22d of July to 23d of August, when the Sun is hottest; exerts most
power, the Lion.
Let the reader look at the cut at each paragraph or description of each sign.
Our Christian friends sup to the vestal virgin. When? Every year when the Sun enters the
sign Virgo, whose symbol is the Virgin, August 23d to September 23d. Now look at the
cut and the central cross, on which the Sun is Crucified every year, and you will see the
Sun has passed over the cross on which he is annually crucified, and, like Christ, has his
cross on his back i.e., passed over it.
Our Christian friends lay much stress upon the judgment day. Every year, on the 23d day
of September, the Sun enters the sign Libra, symbolized by the balance. Every year after
harvest the farmer balances up his books and pays his debts. But there the Sun God
presents a parallel to the Son of God on the road to the crucifixion. The Sun begins to
retreat, the days to grow shorter. The Sun, like Christ, is bearing his cross toward the
crucifixion. Keep the eye on the cut. The Son of God was crucified between the two
thieves. The Sun God is crucified between the two heavenly thieves. Scorpio and
Sagittarius, October 23d to November 22d November 22d to December 21st. There is
a harvest somewhere every month in the year, except these two months, the heavenly
thieves.
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The Sun lost its power, retreated back where it is white and cold. But Sagittarius became
the repentant thief, gives up, does not wait until January 1st, but gives up December 25th.
And after the Sun comes out of hades, where he was for three days, while the days are of
one length, he is re-born, the same as Christ. There are three days about the same length,
the three days the Son of God was supposed to have descended into hades.
Is this not complete?
Have I left anything out?
What? You say No?
Yes, I have left out the betrayer.
Who was the betrayer?
Judas Iscariot was Christs betrayer.
But who was the Sun Gods betrayer?
The ancients had noticed, notwithstanding their prayers and sacrifices, every year the Sun
deserted them and went back until, to them, he died, was finally resurrected. They could
not believe their loved Sun God could willingly desert them, so they looked into the
heavens to see why he went back.
In the tall, every year, they saw him retreat, apparently followed by a tremendous
heavenly host, for there are more stars in the constellations Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius
than in any others, and it was these stars that seemed to be chasing and pressing the Sun
back. They were led on by a bright and beautiful star the ancients had seen in the east, in
early morning, in spring and summer months, just as we do now. By the tip of the earth
he has apparently fallen to evening star, leading on the heavenly host. We call it Venus,
the Goddess of Love. They called it Lucifer, the light-bearer.
So they cried, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, Star of the Morning? And
so here you have the story of the war in heaven.
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We must remember that at the time Christ was betrayed it was in the garden at night time.
The silver moon is the ruler of the night, and the beautiful autumn nights are longer than
the days, and there are 30 degrees in each sign. These 30 silver moon nights are the 30
pieces of silver Lucifer, Venus, betrayed the sun for. He had been the morning star, but
now betrayed for the 30 pieces of silver night, but now cast them down in the potters
field a graveyard of fall tragedies and disappears here, only to appear again as morning
star in the spring, and we see nothing but the man with his bowels broke asunder, which
covers Virgo, Libra and Scorpio to the secrets, and Lucifer disappears, to be born again in
the springtime.
We must remember a piece of silver was of but 13 cents of our money or 30 pieces of but
$3.90; a very small sum to get for the betrayal to death.
That is an evidence of an allegory.
Which is it, a sacred novel founded on astronomy, or is the story of the Son of God
paralleled in the heavens as a testimony?
The truths supposed to be spoken by Christ stamp the character too grand and noble to be
cast down. whichever way it is, and If I must err I will err on the side that bears the
strongest testimony. If I accept it as an allegory I have but one side; if I accept it as a
parallel I have a testimony.
Now which is it?
Is the Christian religion, with all other religions, together with Mythology and Free
Masonry, based upon Astrology? Or is it a fact that the Sun and stars are enacting the
story of the Christian religion every year? Is the fact about to be recognized that the
observation of Sunday as a religious holiday originated with an Astrologer, and is a
testimony that the whole work is Astrological?
notion that the seven celestial bodies (the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus,
and Saturn) revolving around stationary Earth influence what happens on it and that each
of these celestial bodies controls the first hour of the day named after it. This system was
brought into Hellenistic Egypt from Mesopotamia, where astrology had been practiced
for millenniums and where seven had always been a propitious number. In A.D. 321 the
Emperor Constantine the Great grafted this astrological system onto the Roman calendar,
made the first day of this new week a day of rest and worship for all, and imposed the
following sequence and names to the days of the week:
Dies Solis
"Sun's Day"
Dies Lunae
"Moon's Day"
Dies Martis
"Mar's Day"
This new Roman system was adopted with modifications throughout most of western
Europe: in the Germanic languages, such as Old English, the names of four of the Roman
gods were converted into those of the corresponding Germanic gods. Therefore in Old
English we have the following names (with their Modern English developments):
Sunnandaeg
Sunday
Monandaeg
Monday
Tiwesdaeg
Wodnesdaeg
Wednesday (the god Woden, like Mercury, was quick and eloquent)
Thunresdaeg
Thursday (the god Thunor in Old Norse Thorsdagr influenced the English
form)
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Frigedaeg
Friday (the goddess Frigg, like Venus, was the goddess of love)
Saeternesdaeg Saturday
Not only were the days of the week named after the sun,
moon and planets, but also the hours. In Egypt, as in
Babylon, the order for this purpose was Saturn, Jupiter,
Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. [Note this
order is from slowest moving to fastest moving.] This
arrangement places the slower-moving bodies (with
respect to the fixed stars) first. Each of the twenty-four
hours was consecrated to one of the heavenly bodies.
The first hour was assigned to Saturn, and it follows that
the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second hours would
also be Saturn's. The twenty-third hour would fall to
Jupiter, the twenty-fourth hour to Mars, and the first
hour of the second day would fall to the Sun. Thus, the
first hour of the third day would fall to the Moon, that of
the fourth day to Mars, that of the fifth day to Mercury,
that of the sixth day to Jupiter, and the first hour of the
seventh day to Venus (our Friday). The cycle was now
completed, and the first hour of the eighth day would
return to Saturn and the commencement of a new week.
The Legend of the Lost Word
Q. What is the meaning of the masonic legend of the "lost word"?
A. This legend, as briefly stated by Dr. Mackey, in his "Symbolism of Freemasonry"
(page 300), is as follows: "The mystical history of Freemasonry informs us that there
once existed a WORD of surpassing value, and claiming a profound veneration; that this
word was known to the few, and that it was at length lost, and that a temporary substitute
for it was adopted."
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This idea of a mystic, all-powerful "word" was an ancient and widely diffused
superstition. Just how this notion originated has not been handed down to us, either by
tradition or otherwise. It, however, probably came to be entertained in the following
manner: It was generally known to the profanei. e., the uninitiatedthat those who
were admitted to the "Mysteries" were intrusted with a certain sacred word, under a most
solemn pledge not to reveal it to the world; and as the scientific knowledge, also secretly
imparted to those who were initiated, gave those who took the higher degrees the power
to work apparent miracles, the ignorant and superstitious multitude naturally thought, and
were perhaps taught to believe, that it was by the use of this "word," so sacredly
concealed, that the priests were able to perform all their wonderful works. This word was,
however, nothing but the " pass-word" which went with the "sign," by which the initiated
could make themselves known to one another. This idea of an all-powerful word was
very prevalent among the Jews, no doubt derived from their long stay in Egypt. The
notion was that this "word" consisted of the true name of God, together with a knowledge
of its proper pronunciation, and that the fortunate possessor of this knowledge became
thereby clothed with supernatural powerthat by the speaking of this word he could
perform all sorts of miracles, and even raise the dead. According to the Cabalists, "the
very heavens shook, and the angels themselves were filled with terror and astonishment
when this tremendous word was pronounced."
Jewish tradition states that God himself taught Moses his true name and its correct
pronunciation at the "burning bush." And they believed that Moses, being thus possessed
of the "WORD," used it to perform all his miracles, and to confound and overthrow
Pharaoh and his hosts. The Jews of a later date, seeking to account for the wonderful
works of Christ, asserted blasphemously that he unlawfully entered the "holy of holies,"
and clandestinely obtained the word used by Moses, which was engraved upon the stone
upon which the ark rested. The superstition in relation to a wonder-working word also
prevailed among the Arabians, who say that King Solomon was in possession of this
"grand omnific word," and by its use subdued the genii who rebelled against God, many
of whom Solomon imprisoned by the use of his magical seal, upon which the word,
contained in a pentacle, was engraved. (See the "Story of the Fisherman," and other tales
of the "Arabian Nights," where this legend is alluded to.)
It was from these, and other similar legends thus widely diffused among the ancient
Oriental nations, that the veneration for a particular word arose, together with an earnest
desire to obtain it, and a laborious search for it, by ambitious believers in its power. All
the magicians, enchanters, and wonder-workers of the East, and the adepts of the West,
were supposed to have, in some mysterious way, become possessed of this "word," and
were known to the aspirants and students of the occult sciences (not yet so fortunate) by
the name of "masters," and the "word" was called by them the "master's word." This
ancient superstition seems to have left its impress on our ritual, for the "word," of which
we hear so often therein, is assumed to be something more than a mere "pass-word,"
although we, as masons, now use the phrase "master's word" in a very different sense
from that of the adepts of former times.
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In former and less enlightened times the possession of the true name of God and its
proper pronunciation, or some substitute for it, authorized by divine command, were even
supposed requisite in order to worship him aright; for it was ignorantly thought that, if
God was not addressed by his own proper name, he would not attend to the call, nor even
know that the prayers of his worship were really addressed to him, and not to Baal,
Osiris, or Jupiter; or, if knowing, would indignantly reject them. In the East, to address
even an earthly potentate by any other than his own proper, high, and ceremonious title,
was considered both irreverent and insulting. Among the Jews, however, the
pronunciation of the true name was supposed to be followed by such tremendous effects
that a substitute, for which they believed they had the divine sanction, was enjoined.
Accordingly, we find in the Old Testament that, whenever the name of God occurs, the
substitute is used instead of the true name. The word substituted is generally "Adonai," or
Lord, unless the name follows that word, and then "Elohim" is used; as, "Adonai Elohim,"
meaning, Lord God. From this long-continued use of a substitute for the real word, the
latter, or at least its correct pronunciation, was thought to be lost. A trace of all this is
found in our ritual, and, perhaps, furnishes the true reason why a substitute (as Dr.
Mackey informs us in the extract we have quoted above from his "Symbolism") was
adopted.
It will be of no use to trace any further the numerous superstitions and legends in
relation to this fabled "grand omnific word." Dr. Mackey very justly says, in the work
before mentioned, that it is "no matter what this word was, or how it was lost," for we
now know that no word can be at present of any use to a mason, except to serve as a
"pass-word," to prove his right to the honors and benefits of some particular masons body
or degree; and for that purpose (apart from considerations of a purely archological and
historical nature) one word is just as good as another, so long as it is appropriate to the
time and place, and has been established for that purpose, either by ancient usages or
some competent authority. Much learning, however, as might be expected, together with
persistent search, laborious study, and even the practice of magical arts, have been
employed in past ages, and even down to within a few years, to discover the ancient
wonder-working word by those who believed in its fabled power, or from a motive of
historical curiosity desired to obtain it. According to some, the sacred Tetragrammaton,
or four-lettered name of God in Hebrew, incorrectly pronounced Jehovah, was the true
word. Others thought that the Hebrew word Jah, the Chaldaic Bul or Bell, or the Egyptian
ON or OM, the Hindoo AUM, together with various combinations of them all, constituted
the "grand omnific word." But as the possession of no one of them, nor any possible
combination of them, seems to confer any miraculous powers on the possessor, neither of
them can be the correct one according to ancient traditions. If there ever was actually any
such thing as a "grand omnific word" (that is, all-powerful word, from omnificus allcreating), it certainly remains lost to this day, and "I fear it is for ever lost," for certainly
none of the words disclosed, with so much solemn ceremony, in certain masonic degrees,
confer any supernatural powers on those to whom they are communicated.
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Exodus 20:1-17
And God spoke all these words:
Deuteronomy 5:6-21
And he [God] said:
1. I am the LORD your God, who brought 1. I am the LORD your God, who brought
you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
2. You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall have no other gods before me.
3. You shall not make for yourself an idol 3. You shall not make for yourself an idol
in the form of anything in heaven above or in the form of anything in heaven above or
on the earth beneath or in the waters below. on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
4. You shall not bow down to them or
worship them; for I, the LORD your God,
am a jealous God, punishing the children
for the sin of the fathers to the third and
fourth generation of those who hate me, but
showing love to a thousand [generations] of
those who love me and keep my
commandments.
7. Six days you shall labor and do all your 7. Six days you shall labor and do all your
work,
work,
8. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the
LORD your God. On it you shall not do
any work, neither you, nor your son or
daughter, nor your manservant or
maidservant, nor your animals, nor the
alien within your gates.
10. Honor your father and your mother, as 10. Honor your father and your mother, so
the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live long in the land the LORD
your God is giving you.
so that you may live long and that it may
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Notice that the two readings are not identical. They actually consist of 17 statements,
and there are no instructions in the Bible on how we are to combine and group these 17
statements so we end up with ten commandments. This presents us with an immediate
problem -- which reading do we use, the one in Exodus or the one in Deuteronomy, and
how do we combine and group the 17 statements so we arrive at 10 commandments? The
answer is no one agrees. The Catholics, the Protestants, and the Jews all have their own
way of combining and grouping the 17 statements, each arriving at their own distinctly
different version of the Ten Commandments.
Jewish
And God spoke all these
words:
1st Commandment
I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of
Egypt, out of the land of
slavery.
2nd Commandment
You shall have no other
gods before me.
You shall not make for
yourself an idol in the
form of anything in
heaven above or on the
earth beneath or in the
Protestant
Catholic
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waters below.
waters below.
waters below.
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.
or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything that
belongs to your neighbor.
..
.
or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything that
belongs to your neighbor.
..
.
or his manservant or
maidservant, his ox or
donkey, or anything that
belongs to your neighbor.
..
.
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Catholics and the Jews are wrong? There is no consensus on how the list should be
enumerated. However, our problems are actually much more serious than this, for these
are not the Ten Commandments.
I said at the beginning that we erroneously call the above the "Ten Commandments",
whichever version we choose. This is because the Bible never explicitly says one or the
other or both of the two passages above are the Ten Commandments. In fact what the
Bible does explicitly call the Ten Commandments are nothing like the 17 statements
above which we are familiar with.
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Israel" (Exodus 34:27). Note that even though the Lord originally said, "I will write on
them [the replacement tablets] the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke,"
the Lord now tells Moses to do the writing, and what he tells Moses to write on the
tablets are the words of the covenant.
Here now, quoting from the Bible, is the covenant the Lord makes with Moses:
Exodus 34:10-26
Then the LORD said:
1. I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I
will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the
world. The people you live among will see how awesome is
the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. Obey what I
command you today.
2. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
3. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the
land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.
4. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut
down their Asherah poles [That is, symbols of the goddess
Asherah].
5. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name
is Jealous, is a jealous God.
6. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the
land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and
sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their
sacrifices.
7. And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for
your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their
gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.
8. Do not make cast idols.
9. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days
eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at
the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month
you came out of Egypt.
10. The first offspring of every womb belongs to me,
including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether
from herd or flock.
11. Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do
not redeem it, break its neck.
12. Redeem all your firstborn sons. No one is to appear
before me empty-handed.
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13. Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall
rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must
rest.
14. Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the
wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the
year [That is, in the fall].
15. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the
Sovereign LORD, the God of Israel.
16. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your
territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up
three times each year to appear before the LORD your God.
17. Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with
anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice
from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
18. Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of
the LORD your God.
19. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
The reading immediately concludes with Exodus 34:27-28 which I quote, "Then the
LORD said to Moses, 'Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I
have made a covenant with you and with Israel.' Moses was there with the LORD forty
days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets
the words of the covenant--the Ten Commandments."
According to Exodus these are the real Ten Commandments of the Bible. To all Moorish
readers I know that your mind is in a different state at this time. We understand.
Remember when we said that Astrology should be a guide for our faith and practice, we
meant also that we were going to expose those secrets that the Christians and Moslem
leaders thought you would have never found out. Well this is the time to set your house in
order. Our president Nakiim Bey decided to research and reveal these findings so that we
can reconnect to our Universe and find the God within and be guided by the Original Sun
(Son) of God.
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