Here we find astronomical symbolism consecutively in the texts once again and our Astrotheology continues in the life of Jesus as depicted in the New Testament.
It appears more evident as we continue our study into the unbelievable parallels between the depiction the "Jesus Story" and the Zodiac that the original authors of the New Testament had no intention of making their book into a biography and never for a moment intended to be made into that. They were merely rewriting the oldest story in the world, that of the zodiac.
Answer for yourself: How could this be coincidence over and over again?
Next we continue with the text of Matthew only to find Jesus departing from his family because he cannot take them with him. Again we speak of "division" and "separation".
Matt 12:46-50 46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. 48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? 49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (KJV)
Answer for yourself: What does this mean? Spiritually speaking God is teaching mankind as before that the "2nd birth" requires living in "repentance" and "sanctification" or separation from worldly things symbolized by Jesus' family for example. Darkness is waiting to challenge the child of God and life will be full of assaults by "darkness" upon a child of "light" and to win the battle of the Soul requires "repentance" and "sanctification" and we see that here in the Constellation of Cancer. We are to learn from the path of the Sun that the Soul of man is capable of "backsliding" as the Sun moves backwards at this time but if we are vigilant to feed ourselves continually the "bread from God" and practice "fruitfulness" and "good works" in a life lived in constant repentance then such a defeat by "darkness" need not be our plight. Again we see the evolution of the Soul laid our for mankind through the "Jesus Story" as it is the personification of the path of the Sun through the Zodiac.
Again that always puzzled me during the early years of my study of Jewish Roots for Judaism teaches that one that forsakes his family, in a natural sense, is worse than an infidel and yet we have Jesus, the presumed Messiah, doing the very same thing in the Gospels. Jews believe marriage and family life are gifts from God. For Jews, home is a special place where they can share their lives with their family and with God. Of course when a Jewish Rabbi or person reads Jesus denial of his family they are bewildered to say the least and knowing how Judaism views the family and the importance of the family this does not bode well for Jesus being their Messiah as you might expect. But this passage makes perfect sense when viewed Astronomically. We have followed the path of the Sun up to now in its travels through the Zodiac and its related stars. We have seen the Sun pass through hundreds of stars comprising these 6 prior constellations as its climbed to its zenith in the Sky. Now it must take a perilous journey back into darkness thus leaving its solar friends behind.
But we are not through yet.
Cancer was originally called the birth month of Jesus. Capricorn (December 22- January 19) is, as we saw in the earlier article in this series, the birth month of the Christ, and on the twenty-fifth of December down the centuries the birth of the world savior has been celebrated but in very ancient days, the birthday of the infant Sun gods was in Cancer. We are told: "The birthday of the infant Jesus, being arbitrarily set by the priests, produces a serious discrepancy, as we are told he was born in a manger. The manger is found in the sign of the Summer Solstice, the constellation Cancer, which was called the gate of the Sun through which souls were said to descend from their heavenly home to earth, just as at the Winter Solstice in December, they were said to return to their heavenly or celestial home, the constellation Capricorn, the other gate of the Sun. Capricorn was the sign from which sungods were said to the born at the Winter Solstice and made sacred to the sons of light." (E. Valentia Straiton, The Celestial Ship of the North, Vol. II, p. 205).
This dim constellation, Cancer, the faintest of the entire Zodiac, contains no stars brighter than fourth magnitude, none of which are distinguishable by the naked eye. Quite possibly, Cancer's only claims to fame is inclusion in the Signs of the Zodiac and the beautiful Praesepe (meaning "hive," "crib" or "manger"), also known as the Beehive Cluster. In earlier times, this Cluster was also referred to as "Little Cloud" and "Little Mist" and was the basis of an early method of forecasting the weather. According to Pliny, if Praesepe were not visible in a clear sky, then it foretold the coming of a violent storm. The astronomers of both Ancient Greece and Ancient Arabia perceived the Beehive Cluster as the crib of the infant Jesus, with two of the nearby stars (known collectively as the "Aselli" or "Asses") on either side representing donkeys (or maybe a donkey and an ox) feeding on hay from the manger.
Ironically the astrological symbol for the sign Cancer has no relation at all to the crab. It is composed of two "asses" tails, and these again link up the gospel story with the story of the manger.
Answer for yourself: Again is this just coincidence or is there Astrotheology throughout the "Jesus Story"?
I direct your attention to the picture where it is clearly seen that two asses are present in the manger scene that again betrays the Astronomical symbolism behind the nativity story as we have previously seen.
Answer for yourself: Do we see again in the picture the "nimbus" or the "solar halos" around the heads of baby Jesus and Joseph and Mary? Notice if you will the solar mythology noted in the picture in the form of the "halos" or "nimbus" on the heads of the characters which again betrays Solar symbolism. In connection with the birth of Jesus two asses appear, the one on which the Virgin rode down to Bethlehem, prior to the birth, and the other on which she rode to Egypt, after the birth.
Close to the sign Cancer are two bright stars, one called Asellus Borealis, or "the northern ass", and the other, Asellus Australis, or "the southern ass". Besides these two Solar symbolisms mentioned above there is also the third time, when Christ is made to ride into Jerusalem during his brief moment of triumph on Palm Sunday seated on the back of an ass, a symbol of patience and humility the crown jewels of greatness.
Answer for yourself: Did we not already see that in entering the holy city of Jerusalem that Jesus comes for Bethany, or "Beth-Anu" meaning "the house of the Sun"? We previously saw that in the "Egyptian Pyramid Texts" that we first find a unique play on words when we look at the word Bethany.
Answer for yourself: Where did Lazarus supposedly live? He is mentioned at living at Bethany.
Answer for yourself: Do you remember that we saw that the word "Bethany, when translated back into the Egyptian language is "Beth-anu" and it means the House of the Sun? Should we not expect Jesus, as the personified Sun, to be traveling the ecliptic of the House of the Sun?
In Greek mythology we read of the savior Dionysus riding upon two asses, which afterwards he had changed into celestial constellations. Jesus is pictured as riding into Jerusalem upon the two asses, i.e., upon as ass and colt, the foal of an ass.
Matt 21:5-7 5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. 6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, 7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. (KJV)
The Gospels instruct us that Jesus (personified as the Sun) enters Jerusalem riding upon two asses.
Answer for yourself: Did you notice that in the above passage Jesus is made to enter into Jerusalem riding "two" asses and not one? Is that not rather strange let alone difficult? How does any human being, let alone Jesus in this story, ride TWO animals at once? Is this a reference to Astrotheology and we not recognize it in the texts? This clearly shows you that the derivation of this story is purely astronomical. Let it also be said that in Babylonia the symbol of the zodiacal constellation Cancer, in which the Sun reached the highest point of its apparent path at the Summer Solstice, was the ass and foal. This New Testament passage, in mentioning "the ass and the colt" refers to two prominent stars which the Sun rides (crosses) within the constellation of Cancer (the sign of the Summer Solstice). The stars are Asellus Borealis (Northern Ass) and Asellus Australis (Southern Ass).
But we need to back up a little for a minute. In a parable, Matt. 12:25-37, Jesus talks of division: no city or house divided against itself will stand.
Jesus is often called the Good Shepherd, and he has been depicted many times as the shepherd leading his sheep. The thought of the sheepfold has been closely associated in the minds of people with Christ. Connected with the sign Cancer are three constellations: Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and Argo. The common Occidental names for the two former are the Great Bear and the Little Bear, but it is one of the mysteries of astronomy as to how the name "bear" came to be associated with either of these groups of stars, for in the Chaldean, Persian, Indian and Egyptian zodiacs, no bear is found. The names most commonly use are those of "the sheepfold", or "the flock of sheep," and an analysis of the Hebrew and Arabic names for the stars found in these constellations will be found to prove the fact that the ancient names signify "the lesser flock", "the sheepfold", "the sheep", and "the ship". In the thirty-fourth chapter of Ezekiel and in the tenth chapter of St. John, is much that has reference to these constellations.
Answer for yourself: I assume that the reader has kept up and read other articles in this series. That being so then what are we seeing?
"The Jesus-story, it will now be seen, has a greater number of correspondences with the stories of former Sungods and with the actual career of the Sun through the heavens - so many indeed that they cannot well be attributed to mere coincidence or even to the blasphemous wiles of the Devil! Let us enumerate some of these. There are (1) birth from a Virgin mother; (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber); and (3) on the 25th December (just after the Winter Solstice). There is (4) the Star in the East (Sirius) and (5) the arrival of the Magi (the 'Three King's); there is (6) the threatened Massacre of the Innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country (told also of Krishna and other Sungods). There are the Church festivals of (7) Candlemas (2nd February), with processions of candles to symbolize the growing light; of (8) Lent, or the arrival of Spring; of (9) Easter Day (normally on 25th March) to celebrate the crossing of the Equator by the Sun; and (10) simultaneously the outburst of lights at the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. There is (11) the Crucifixion and death of the Lamb-God, on Good Friday, three days before Easter; there are (12) the nailing to a tree, (13) the empty grave, (14) the glad Resurrection (as in the cases of Osiris, Attis and others); there are (15) the twelve disciples (the Zodiacal signs); and (16) the betrayal by one of the twelve. Then later there is (17) Mid-Summer Day, the 24th June, dedicated to the birth of the beloved disciple John, and corresponding to Christmas Day; there are the festivals of (18) the Assumption of the Virgin (15th August) and of (19) the Nativity of the Virgin (8th September), corresponding to the movement of the god through Virgo; there is the conflict of Christ and his disciples with the autumnal asterisms, (20) the Serpent and the Scorpion; and finally there is the curious fact that the Church (21) dedicates the very day of the Winter Solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the rebirth of the Sun) to St. Thomas, who doubted the truth of the Resurrection!" - Pagan and Christian Creeds, by Edward Carpenter, p. 50.
Well that is his opinion and one hard to refute I must say when you examine the evidence. What I am concerned about as a Pastor is the presentation of Jesus Christ as God in the flesh to a world baptized into idolatry never knowing it by this "literalization of an Ancient allegory by the Ancients which was always to be understood allegorically" which has been presented to us by Rome as a "literal" man and in so doing made him God in the process in their Church Councils beginning with Nicea. It is my hope that in presenting this information that the "thinking believer" will find not only food for thought but the desire to repent of the idolatry he has received and begin a new relationship with the Creator whereby his worship and love for Him will be without the terrible sin of idolatry which antisemitic Roman Christianity gave to the whole non-Jewish world.
Let us continue with the next article in this series.
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