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“&nbsp;But the vitalizing power of heaven lay chiefly ''with the moon''. . . . It was the Hebrew {{Style S-Hebrew|יהוה}} (Jehovah), and St. Paul enjoins&nbsp;: ‘&nbsp;Let no man judge you for your observance of the seventh day, and the ''day of the new moon'', ''which are a shadow of things to come&nbsp;; ''but the body (or substance) is of Christ&nbsp;” or Jehovah, that function of this power that “&nbsp;made the barren woman . . . a mother . . . for they are the gift of Jehovah&nbsp;” . . . which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the Shunamite, as to her going to the man of God&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;for it is neither the seventh day nor the ''day of the new moon''. . . .” (2 ''Kings'', iv., 23.) The living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. Bentley comments on the Hindu “&nbsp;War between the gods and the giants,” as marked by the eclipse of the Sun at the ascending node of the Moon, 945 B.C. (!&nbsp;!), at which time was born&nbsp;* or produced from the sea, Sri (Sarai, S-r-i, the wife of the Hebrew A-bram&nbsp;†). Sri is also Venus-Aphrodite the Western emblem “&nbsp;of the luni-solar year or the moon (as Sri is the wife of the moon&nbsp;; ''vide ''foot-note), the goddess of increase&nbsp;‡ . . .” Therefore “&nbsp;the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was Mount Sinai&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Lord Jehovah coming down thereon. . . . Paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of Abraham&nbsp;: ‘&nbsp;For this Hagar (the bond-woman) is Mount Sinai in Arabia.’ How could a woman be a mountain&nbsp;? and such a mountain&nbsp;! Yet . . . she was. . . . Her name was Hagar, Hebrew <sub>הגר</sub>, whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to equal nineteen tropical years to complete this cycle. . . . Mount Sinai being, in the esoteric language of the wisdom, the monument of the exact time of the lunar
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“&nbsp;But the vitalizing power of heaven lay chiefly ''with the moon''. . . . It was the Hebrew {{Style S-Hebrew|יהוה}} (Jehovah), and St. Paul enjoins&nbsp;: ‘&nbsp;Let no man judge you for your observance of the seventh day, and the ''day of the new moon'', ''which are a shadow of things to come&nbsp;; ''but the body (or substance) is of Christ&nbsp;” or Jehovah, that function of this power that “&nbsp;made the barren woman . . . a mother . . . for they are the gift of Jehovah&nbsp;” . . . which is a key to the objection which her husband made to the Shunamite, as to her going to the man of God&nbsp;—&nbsp;“&nbsp;for it is neither the seventh day nor the ''day of the new moon''. . . .” (2 ''Kings'', iv., 23.) The living spiritual powers of the constellations had mighty wars, marked by the movements and positions of the stars and planets, and especially as the result of the conjunction of the moon, earth, and sun. Bentley comments on the Hindu “&nbsp;War between the gods and the giants,” as marked by the eclipse of the Sun at the ascending node of the Moon, 945 B.C. (!&nbsp;!), at which time was born&nbsp;* or produced from the sea, Sri (Sarai, S-r-i, the wife of the Hebrew A-bram&nbsp;†). Sri is also Venus-Aphrodite the Western emblem “&nbsp;of the luni-solar year or the moon (as Sri is the wife of the moon&nbsp;; ''vide ''foot-note), the goddess of increase&nbsp;‡ . . .” Therefore “&nbsp;the grand monument and landmark of the exact period of the lunar year and month, by which this cycle (of 19 tropical years and 235 revolutions of the moon) could be calculated, was Mount Sinai&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Lord Jehovah coming down thereon. . . . Paul speaks (then) as a mystagogue, when he says concerning the freed woman and bond woman of Abraham&nbsp;: ‘&nbsp;For this Hagar (the bond-woman) is Mount Sinai in Arabia.’ How could a woman be a mountain&nbsp;? and such a mountain&nbsp;! Yet . . . she was. . . . Her name was Hagar, Hebrew {{Style S-Hebrew|הגר}}, whose numbers re-read 235, or in exact measure, the very number of lunar months to equal nineteen tropical years to complete this cycle. . . . Mount Sinai being, in the esoteric language of the wisdom, the monument of the exact time of the lunar
    
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