| Jesus | The Sun - "I am the light" (John 8:12, John 9:5) |
| Bethlehem | Zodiac constellation Virgo.
August: Beth - house. Each of the 12 divisions of the zodiac is a house.
lehiem - Hebrew for bread. [spelled {lamed, chet, mem sofit} see Strong #3899,3900,3901] Therefore, Beth leheim is literally, "House of
bread." In the "House of bread" you will find a virgin - Virgo the virgin. [Kuhn essay on John] |
| Star of Bethlehem | I am currently guessing the planet Venus,
which is always near the sun. |
| Three Magi (Wise Men) | 3 stars in the belt of the
constellation Orion. "Wise Men" always the title of astrologers. In the story the three "Wise Men"
or astrologers "follow the star to Bethlehem," and if we follow the path these three
stars appear to take during the night as the celestial sphere rotates over our heads
we will find they lead us to Virgo. |
| Heaven | The celestial sphere above.
Heaven is always up, and if you go out at night and look up, you see all the stars
of the night sky. You are literally looking at Heaven. |
| Hell | The underworld, under-world, i.e.
under the world, where the Sun goes at night as it travels from the west where it set
back to the east where it will rise again in the morning. Hell is always down,
below the earth, under the earth. It's hot and on fire, no doubt because
the Sun itself is hot and on fire and the Sun travels through there every night. |
| Mary |
Virgo, the celestial virgin.
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| Joseph | Saturn -
"In Medieval & Renaissance art Joseph is often seen holding the
symbols that have long been associated with the planet & archetype of Saturn."
—
http://www.taroscopes.com/astro-theology/astrotheology2.html
Or, the constellation Bootes, which is next to Virgo, the celestial virgin, which
represents Mary.
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| Winter (Mark) | The star Fomalhaut, in the Fishes'
mouth of Piscis Austrinus (next to Aquarius. Marcus literally signifying the
shining one.) When the sun passes by this star, Winter
begins. It is the winter solstice. The days begin to get longer and longer.
The sun is figuratively reborn. Christians celebrate Christmas, the "birth" of Christ. |
| Spring (Luke) | The star Aldebaran, the bull's eye,
both of the name and symbol of St. Luke, with his bull. When the sun passses by this star, Spring
begins. It is the vernal equinox. The sun springs upwards and ascends to heaven. Christians
celebrate Easter, the crucifixion of Jesus who lives again and ascends into heaven.
Jews celebrate Passover. The sun crosses or passes over the equinox, a Cross-ification,
or crucifixion, or Pass-over. |
| Summer (Matthew) | The star Regulus,
in the constellation Leo, the lion. When the sun passes by this star, Summer begins. It is
the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. From here on out the days begin to
get shorter and shorter.
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| Autumn (John) | The star Antares in Scorpio.
When the sun passes by this star, Fall or Autumn begins. The sun falls, appears to slowly die,
and leaves us as it descends more and more to the underworld, i.e. "hell." It is Autumn, a period
of incipient decline (the meaning of Autumn) as the sun leaves us. The sun crosses the equinox
a second time - the autumnal equinox. However, it is also harvest time. Time to eat so we
may stay alive. The sun which is now figuratively dying, "gave it's life" so that we may live.
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| Two thieves | November and December, the only months in the year
in which thre is no harvest of consequence on the face of the globe."-Stowe p124. |
| Star of Bethlehem | The planet Venus (Stowe p126.) |
| Lucifer | The planet Venus (Stowe p125.) light-bearer "O! Lucifer, son of the morning" (Isaiah xiv. 12)
"Pointing out Venus, the morning star, in the east, which heralds the rebirth of the Sun." Stowe p127. |
| Judas Iscariot | The planet Venus (Stowe p125.) |
| "Days of evil", "evil days" | the short days of deep winter Taylor vol 1. p186 |
| "Prince of Darkness" | night time, when it's dark. |
| Lazarus | The Sun [see Robert Taylor sermon on Lazarus] |
| Doubting Thomas | 21st of December, doubting that the
sun will rise again. Winter solstice is Dec. 22, three days later, Dec. 25, the days start getting longer
again. The sun has arisen again. The sun has been reborn. |
| Children of light | The Stars. (Luke 16:8, John 12:36, Ephesians 5:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:5) |
| Luke ch.1 v35 | On the 19th of August, the constellation
of the Virgin disappears in the sun's rays. Christians celebrate the assumption of the
blessed Virgin. On the 9th of September, this constellation emerges out of the Sun's
rays, at which time the Catholics celebrate the nativity of the mother of the Sun, or Christ. (Christian Mythology Unveiled, p.104) |
| Mat. 11:2 | The "days of John the Baptist" are the days of Aquarius, Jan. 20 - Feb 18. |
| Saint Peter | January, Aquarius |
| Saint Judas Iscariot | February, Pisces, the fishes. |
| Saint Andrew (brother of Peter) | March (sun crosses equator in March) |
| Matthew | April, Tarus, the bull, as you see all representations of St. Matthew
with a bull's head aat his foot, as if of purpose to show us, what the proper understanding
of the thing is. |
| John | May, the disciple which Jesus loved (find ref.) |
| Thomas, or Didymus | June, crab? or twins? The month of June puts an end to the sun's
further ascension, and begins to shorten all days. (p 176) |
| James the Greater. | July |
| Judas, brother of James | August |
| James the Less, surnamed Oblia the Just, | September, Libra, the balance of justice. |
| Nathaniel, whom Christ saw under the fig-tree, gathering in the last remaining
fruits of the year, and called Philip. | October |
| Philip | November. Philip whose very name signifies lover of a horse, Sagittarius |
| Simon, the Canaanite. | December. |
| Peter the rock | January, Aquarius |
| Judas the betrayer | Scorpio |
| Matthew the scribe | lion (8th apostle) |
| Thomas the twin | Zodiacal twins (Gemeni) |
| John the baptist | Aquarius |
| Andrew | Libra? (scales) autumn |
| Philip | Virgo (common symbol for Philip is a loaf. Virgo is bread.) But also associated with Libra, time of harvest. |
| Bartholomew | "ploughman" |
| James the Brother (the Less?) | ? |
| James the Greater and John the Evangelist, the Sons of Thunder. | ? |
| Mark | Peter's scribe. Not a disciple. Represents one of the cardinal points of the zodiac. Evangelists are depicted in Christian cathedrals as the man, the ox, lion, and eagle. |
| Luke | Also not one of the 12. a "physician", a Therapeut, "the good healer", Lykos, god of healing. |
| Thaddeus/Jude and Simon the Zealot/Canaanite | Share feast day on 10/28. Scorpio. |
| 1. Son, Reuben | means "behold a son." Born of Leah. Assigned to Libra. |
| 2. Son, Sirneon | means "listening." Born of Leah. Assigned to Scorpio. |
| 3. Son, Levi | means crown wreath, or success. Born of Leah. Assigned to Sagittarius. |
| 4. Son, Judah | means praised. Born of Leah. Assigned to Capricornus. |
| 5. Son, Dan | , means to judge. Born of Bilhah, Rachel's maid. Assigned to Aquarius. |
| 6. Son, Naphtali | , means wrestling. Born of Bilhah, Rachel's maid. Assigned to Pisces. |
| 7. Son, Gad | means a troop or overcomers. Born of Zilpah, Leab's maid. Assigned to Aries. |
| 8. Son, Ashar | means happiness. Born of Zilpah, Leah's maid. Assigned to Taurus. |
| 9. Son, Issachar | means he is hired. Born of Leah and assigned to Gemini. |
| 10. Son, Zebulun | means habitation. Born of Leah. Assigned to Cancer. |
| 11. Son, Joseph | means "He shall add." Born of Rachel. Assigned to Leo. |
| 12. Son, Benoni | means calamity; changed to Benjamin, meaning son of the right hand, or success. Born of Rachel. Assigned to Virgo. |
| A land flowing with Milk and Honey | The Milky Way |
| Tree of Knowledge | North Celestial Pole |
| Garden of Eden | That circle of stars around the
North Celestial Pole which never set (they never go below the horizon, they just circle
around the North Celestial Pole). |
| Abraham | Saturn; Father of Heaven; Father of Elevation. Time; (Father Time); Saturn is
the slowest of the "Wandering Stars," or Planets, hence it is the Father. |
| Children of Israel | the stars in the eternal game of follow-my-leader |
| Caleb | [03612] literally "dog." The Dog Star, Sirius, in the constellation Canus Major, the big dog, below Gemini. |
| Eglon | [05700] literally "calf-like." From [05695] "calf, bullock." bull. |
| Egypt | That portion of the heavens which is below the horizon,
and therefore in a state of darkness and shadow. "...that which brings them up out of the land of Egypt," i.e. "from below the horizon" |
| "These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt." Exodus 32:4,8, 1 Kings 12:28) |
referring to the considerable number of stars which make up the
whole group or constellation, whether it was the Bull or the Ram that stood at the point
where the Ecliptic crosses the Equator; [Taylor v2p110] |
| Nimrod | "The Philip of the New Testament being none other than the Nimrod of the old." Taylor DP1 pg. 310 |
| Nebuchadnezzar | a personification of the constellation Sirius (Christian Mythology Unveiled, p.107) |
| Zion | the zodiac (Christian Mythology Unveiled, p.62) |
