HPB-SD(ed.1) v.1 p.2 sec.9: Difference between revisions

<nowiki>*</nowiki> During that period which is absent from the Mosaic books&nbsp;—&nbsp;from the exile of Eden to the allegorical Flood&nbsp;—&nbsp;the Jews worshipped with the rest of the Semites ''Dayanisi'' {{Style S-Hebrew|די‫ז‬ניסי}} “&nbsp;the Ruler of Men,” the “&nbsp;Judge,” or the Sun. Though the Jewish canon and Christianism have made the sun become the “&nbsp;Lord God&nbsp;” and Jehovah in the Bible, yet the latter is full of indiscreet traces of the androgyne Deity, which was Jehovah the ''sun'', and Astoreth the moon in its female aspect, and quite free from the present metaphorical element given to it. God is a “&nbsp;consuming fire,” appears ''in'', and is encompassed ''by ''fire.” It was not only in vision that Ezekiel (viii., 16) saw the Jews “&nbsp;worshipping the sun. The ''Baal ''of the Israelites (the Shemesh of the Moabites and the Moloch of the Ammonites) was the identical “&nbsp;Sun-Jehovah,” and he is till now “&nbsp;the King of the Host of Heaven,” the Sun, as much as Astoreth was the “&nbsp;Queen of Heaven&nbsp;”&nbsp;—&nbsp;or the moon. The “&nbsp;Sun of Righteousness&nbsp;” has become a ''metaphorical ''expression ''only now.''