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{{Style P-No indent|phantly over a ''new manvantara'', for the septenary chain it illuminates. The teaching had penetrated into Palestine and Europe centuries before the Christian era (see ''Isis Unveiled ''II. 132), and was present in the minds of the Mosaic Jews, who based upon it their small cycle, though it received full expression only through the Christian chronologers of the Bible, who adopted it, as also the 25th of December, the day on which all the ''solar ''gods were said to have been incarnated. What wonder, then, that the Messiah was ''made ''to be born “ the ''lunar ''year of the world 4,320 ? ” The “ Son of Righteousness and ''Salvation ”'' had once more arisen and had dispelled ''pralayic ''darkness of chaos and ''non-being ''on the plane of our objective little globe and chain. Once the subject of the adoration was settled upon, it was easy to make the supposed events of his birth, life, and death, fit in with the Zodiacal exigencies and old traditions, though they had to be somewhat remodelled for the occasion.}} | {{Style P-No indent|phantly over a ''new manvantara'', for the septenary chain it illuminates. The teaching had penetrated into Palestine and Europe centuries before the Christian era (see ''Isis Unveiled ''II. 132), and was present in the minds of the Mosaic Jews, who based upon it their small cycle, though it received full expression only through the Christian chronologers of the Bible, who adopted it, as also the 25th of December, the day on which all the ''solar ''gods were said to have been incarnated. What wonder, then, that the Messiah was ''made ''to be born “ the ''lunar ''year of the world 4,320 ? ” The “ Son of Righteousness and ''Salvation ”'' had once more arisen and had dispelled ''pralayic ''darkness of chaos and ''non-being ''on the plane of our objective little globe and chain. Once the subject of the adoration was settled upon, it was easy to make the supposed events of his birth, life, and death, fit in with the Zodiacal exigencies and old traditions, though they had to be somewhat remodelled for the occasion.}} | ||
Thus what Kepler said, as a great astronomer, becomes comprehensible. He recognised the grand and universal importance of all such planetary conjunctions, “ each of which ” — as he has well said — “ is a ''climacteric ''year of Humanity.” * The rare conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars has its significance and importance on account of its ''certain great results'' — in India and China as much as it has in Europe for the respective mystics of all those countries. And it is certainly no better now than a mere assumption to maintain that nature had only Christ in view, when building her (to the profane) fantastic and meaningless constellations. If it is claimed that it was no hazard that could lead the archaic architects of the Zodiac, thousands of years ago, to mark with the asterisk (''a'') the figure of ''Taurus'', with no better or more valid proof of it being ''prophetic ''of the ''Verbum ''or Christ than that the ''aleph ''of ''Taurus ''means “ the one ” and the first, and that Christ was also the ''alpha ''or the one, then this “ proof ” may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. To begin with, the Zodiac existed before the Christian era, at all events ; further, all the Sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (Taurus) — Osiris, for instance — and were all called by their respective votaries “ the First.” Then the compilers of the mystical epithets given to the Christian Saviour, were all more or less acquainted with | Thus what Kepler said, as a great astronomer, becomes comprehensible. He recognised the grand and universal importance of all such planetary conjunctions, “ each of which ” — as he has well said — “ is a ''climacteric ''year of Humanity.” * The rare conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars has its significance and importance on account of its ''certain great results'' — in India and China as much as it has in Europe for the respective mystics of all those countries. And it is certainly no better now than a mere assumption to maintain that nature had only Christ in view, when building her (to the profane) fantastic and meaningless constellations. If it is claimed that it was no hazard that could lead the archaic architects of the Zodiac, thousands of years ago, to mark with the asterisk (''a'') the figure of ''Taurus'', with no better or more valid proof of it being ''prophetic ''of the ''Verbum ''or Christ than that the ''aleph ''of ''Taurus ''means “ the {{Style S-Small capitals|one}} ” and the {{Style S-Small capitals|first}}, and that Christ was also the ''alpha ''or the {{Style S-Small capitals|one}}, then this “ proof ” may be shown strangely invalidated in more than one way. To begin with, the Zodiac existed before the Christian era, at all events ; further, all the Sun-gods had been mystically connected with that constellation (Taurus) — Osiris, for instance — and were all called by their respective votaries “ the First.” Then the compilers of the mystical epithets given to the Christian Saviour, were all more or less acquainted with | ||
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