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Craig M. Lyons Ms.D., D.D., M.Div.

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TRACING THE SUN THROUGH THE ZODIAC & VIRGO...COULD THIS BE THE ORIGIN FOR THE "JESUS STORY" #10

VIRGO AND JESUS: AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 21

We have been following the path of the Sun through the Constellations and we left off in the previous article with the passage of the Sun through the constellation Leo. We saw that this was the time of the Sun's greatest strength when the Sun goes to the end of the growing season to the time of the harvest. We noticed as the texts of the New Testament progressed revealing the life of "Jesus Christ" that there were abundant teachings concerning this "harvest" and much "harvest terminology" was evident at this stage of the life of Jesus in the "Jesus Story". Notice with me if you will that since the Sun passed through Cancer the Sun has crossed a major divide and darkness is beginning to increase and light is beginning to diminish ever so slowly. But be not mistaken the Ancients noticed this being expert Astronomers. We have seen the Sun "stand still" for 3 days at the Winter solstice as well as 3 days at the Summer solstice and now the Sun is moving to its soon coming death once again on the wheel of the Zodiac as it passes through all 12 houses. But before we get to this part of the solar year and the corresponding part in the "Jesus Story" we saw the Sun in all its glory typified by the "transfiguration" of Jesus as the "personified Sun" on the top of the mountain (meaning the top of the sky at the Summer solstice).

Summer is passing as we watch the Sun recede slowly in its path across the sky as it passes its zenith and as the days get shorter once again. We eventually come to the end of Summer, the month of August, and it's harvest time! We must understand that harvest time is the best time of the year not only for the farmer but for everyone. Harvest time is the time that everyone has been anxiously waiting for. In August the Sun has moved out of Leo, the strong lion of summer, and into a new constellation that represents the harvest since that food which grows out of the virgin soil of the earth. Hence the constellation for harvest time is a female virgin holding a sheath of wheat. The constellation the Sun enters in August is Virgo, the eternal celestial virgin, holding a sheath of wheat representing harvest time. Farmers who till the fields are said to be wedded to this celestial virgin for which they wait for each year. Thus they are known as "husbandmen," and their tools such as hoes and tractors are known as implements of husbandry. Harvest time comes about three quarters of the way through the year, and it is the happiest time of the year. And about three quarters of the way through the Jesus story is his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, which is the happiest part of the story (Mark 11:1-11; Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:28-44; John 12:12-16). Everyone knows him and is happy to see him. Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem is an allegory for the Sun’s triumphant entry into the constellation of Virgo, because that means it’s harvest time, the best time of year. Harvest time is "The Kingdom of Heaven" time which Jesus refers to in earnest as coming soon throughout the story up to here.

Virgo is the only female among the zodiacal constellations, and other than the twins, Castor and Pollux (Gemini), she is the only human figure. Virgo is depicted as a maiden, holding a palm branch or grain stalks in her right and a single ear of wheat in her left. The alpha star is named Spica, “ear of wheat” which is also known as the "star that comes out of Jacob".Virgo is one of the oldest constellations and over time has been equated with every important feminine deity, including Ishtar, Isis, Demeter, Persephone, Medusa, Artemis, and Urania. Allen says, “Those who claim very high antiquity for the zodiacal signs (15,000 years ago), assert that the idea of these titles originated when the Sun was in Virgo at the spring equinox, the time of the Egyptian harvest. Virgo is also the Greek Sophia, goddess of wisdom, and in the Gnostic tradition, she is the Black Madonna, mysterious guardian of feminine wisdom.

This is the time of the year when the harvest is turned into food. As the Sun descends below its peak at its zenith, this is also a time when troubles start to emerge for the "personified Sun" in the form of Jesus in the "Jesus Story". Let us not forget that the Sun is on the move; constantly moving as we find Jesus depicted as a peripatetic Rabbi. As the "darkness" begins to threaten the Sun likewise here we find that the very same adversity manifested by the people who welcomed Jesus in his home town of Nazareth who were suspicious of his wisdom and power.

Matt 13:54-58 54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Did you notice the term "carpenter" which is an Ancient term for an astronomer/astrologer as well as the reference to "in his own house"? Do you recall that the term "houses" refer to signs and constellations of the Zodiac? Recall that Jesus says "in my Father's house is many mansions" and we saw that phrase this has hidden Astronomical meanings in a previous article.

On a more literal level we are taught not the "Inner Mystery" but only the "Outer Mystery" in the form of its "literalization" as it were a real historical story. We are made to believe that those who one welcomed this Jesus and looked to him to be their Messiah are the same people in his home town of Nazareth who were now suspicious of his wisdom and power in the above verses from Matthew 13:54-58. Of course this fits right into our symbolism of the Sun and its waning power following the Summer solstice so this has to happen if we are to be true to the path of the Sun through the Heavens and the Zodiac. We are on a circle or circuit as we saw in the terms for Galilee before in an earlier article. We have just moved past the Summer solstice, when the Sun is at its zenith, and we saw that at this time the Sun is on its throne at full power. As the Sun starts to descend, the dark forces are starting to edge their way back with increasing opposition. As the days get progressively shorter, the Sun is still strong, but its strength is being sapped by all this constant tribulation and adversity. The same "conflict" and "tribulation" against the Sun is personified in the attacks against the "personified Sun" in the form of Jesus in the "Jesus Story". This explains why at one time he is "loved" and then in only a short time the same people who love him now "oppose" him. I always wondered about this in the texts and never really understood until I found the astronomical keys to the "Jesus Story". This part of the "Jesus Story" is nothing but an Astronomical allegory expressing the Sun having passed the Summer solstice and the opposition to it as it begins its downward path in the Sky on its way to its annual death at the Winter solstice. We saw earlier that Jesus, personified as the Sun, continues on his way into "Galilee". Let us not forget that "Galilee" means "circuit" and the Sun is moving full circle through the Solar year.

The Strong's Concordance for the word "Galilee":

1056 Galilaia- Galilee="Circuit" the name of a region of northern Palestine, bounded on the north by Syria, on the west by Sidon, Tyre, Ptolemais and their territories and the promontory of Carmel, on the south by Samaria and on the east by the Jordan. It was divided into Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee. The word "Galilee" literally means "circuit".

Answer for yourself: What is a "circuit"? A circuit is a closed, usually circular path. The ecliptic, as we saw for our astronomy terminology page, is the circuit the Sun travels along during the year. The ecliptic is a great circle inscribed on the celestial sphere. The ecliptic is also a circle on a planisphere. If Jesus Christ is truly the personification of the Sun then it makes perfect sense allegorically that the Sun continues on his way along the ecliptic, or "went into Galilee". We see the same thing here as the Sun moved past the Summer solstice and is descending in the Sky moving to its soon coming death at the Winter solstice.

We have just seen in the previous articles how John the Baptist’s life ends with his head being cut off. We saw that John the Baptist in the form of the rising constellation Aquarius reappears on the Eastern horizon 6 months after Aquarius moved below the Western horizon at sunset as the year went from January to February as the Sun moved from Aquarius to Pisces. We saw that after 6 months the constellation of Aquarius begins to rise on the Eastern horizon at sunset and it appears that the head of Aquarius is cut off by the horizon. This we saw was believed by the Ancients to be John the Baptist rising from the dead, the dead being those who are below the earth. This is the beheading of John the Baptist by King Herod, a personification of darkness, which reigns supreme at night. We saw that this coincides with the Sun crossing the Equinox at the Summer solstice and the rising of Aquarius without its body on the Eastern horizon.

Matt 14:1-12 1 At that time Herod (personified Darkness) the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen (Aquarius on the Eastern horizon) from the dead (from the underworld beneath the western horizon); and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him (resurrection from the dead). 3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison (personified death) for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. 4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. 5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head (2 stars of Aquarius) in a charger. 9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her. 10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. 11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Did you notice that once again one passage after another in sequence in our New Testament uniquely follow the course of the Sun in the Heavens and through the Zodiac when tracing the supposed life of Jesus Christ in the "Jesus Story" in the New Testament? Think on that for awhile. Is it not rather astonishing that for the most part we move from a group of passages in the New Testament to the next following group of passages and are able to maintain perfectly our "Jesus Story" in the Stars?

If that is the case then we should expect to find more Astronomical symbolism in the next passages which just happen to be Jesus feeding the five thousand with five loaves and two fish and find a connection to Virgo.

Answer for yourself: Does the following events in the "Jesus Story" follow the pattern of the path of the Sun moving into the house of Virgo? It sure does. That is exactly what we find.

Matt 14:13-21 13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. 15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals. 16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. 17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. 18 He said, Bring them hither to me. 19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. 21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. (KJV)

Jesus feeds five thousand with five loaves and two fish. Its harvest time again and we must not forget it for the texts remind us repeatedly. Let us look at the bread for a second.

Answer for yourself: What is the true meaning of the word "Bethlehem"? Well if we interpret it literally it means "House of Bread." Before you go out and grab your maps to try to find this city on them know that you should be looking for a place known as the "House of Bread." This might not make sense to you yet but this is necessary if you ever hope to see the allegory behind the "literal" story we have read our whole lives. There has always been a place known as the "House of Bread," except it's not a place on Earth, it's a time of the year!

Notice we are following the path of the Sun through the constellation Virgo and it is now the month of August. So with Virgo being depicted as a woman with a shaft of wheat in her hand signifying the theme of harvest then it is not a stretch to connect the term "House of Bread" with the month of August, which is harvest time. As mentioned above this is a time of great excitement for all peoples in all civilizations for they all looked forward to gathering the foods that sustain life. The term "house" as taken from "Bethlehem-house of bread" refers to one of the 12 houses of the Zodiac, which is like a big calendar in the stars. You can tell what time of year it is by observing the stars as they come out just after sunset and then determining where the Sun is in relation to the stars. You determine which constellation or "house" the Sun is in. It's no different from looking and flipping a wall calendar to determine what month you are in. When the Sun is in the "house of bread" it's August - it's harvest time!

The Sun moves out of Leo and into the constellation Virgo. In the "house of bread" is the constellation Virgo, the virgin. Hence in Bethlehem, the House of Bread, you will find a virgin, the constellation Virgo. Jesus was made to be born in Bethlehem because in Hebrew it means “house of bread”. The house of bread is in Virgo who is pictured above with grain stalks in her arms.

Matt 2:1-2 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. (KJV)

Virgo is always depicted as holding either a sheaf of wheat or an ear of corn. She represents harvest time. As the Sun moves through the Zodiac on it's yearly journey, it eventually passes out of the House of Bread and moves on to the next house. The Sun moves out of the constellation Virgo. Virgo, the eternal Virgin, figuratively gives birth to the Sun, as the Sun passes out of Virgo the Virgin.

We have seen over these last ten or so articles abundant evidence that Jesus allegorically represents the Sun.

Remember Jesus says,

John 8:12 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (KJV)

John 9:5 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (KJV)

The last time I looked the light of the world is the Sun. This is so simple but we never see this because of being conditioned since childhood to interpret the "Jesus Story" literally instead of allegorically as did the Ancients before Rome came along and "literalized" it and gave us a book with this "literal" account inscribed within it.

We have already seen that the Synoptic Gospels teach that Jesus had a one year ministry and this makes all the more sense when you consider that Jesus said that he came only to preach one year in the first place (symbolic for the Zodiac and the passage of the Sun through the Zodiac for one complete cycle).

Luke 4:19 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (KJV)

To a "thinking believer" who has paid attention to the prior articles in this website then it appears without a doubt that the "Jesus Story" is the story of the year, of the seasons, of the Sun passing through the Zodiac. The whole story of Jesus is just an allegory of the Sun passing through the houses of the Zodiac during the year. That's why Jesus' ministry lasted One Year.

Actually if you read the Bible it says King Herod made a careful search of "Bethlehem", the House of Bread, where the Sun is in August, and didn't find him there.

Matt 2:1-11 1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. 3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. 5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. 7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Why did Herod look in Bethlehem? Because the Sun is in the house of Virgo and because it is harvest time. That's the time of year we all wait for with great anticipation of the harvest. But yet Jesus is born December 25 at the Winter solstice after the Sun lays dead for 3 days in the Sky. The Sun, in December, isn't in Bethlehem, the House of Bread, Virgo the Virgin. Not yet anyway. The Sun is in Capricorn - the goat, or sheep, or lamb. Jesus is born in a barn with a bunch of animals - the starry night sky is full of constellations of animals. Jesus is the "Lamb of God." Capricorn is the lamb.

Now this might be a little confusing since we began our studies in Capricorn but bear with me. Many of these Middle Eastern cultures recognized Virgo as the year’s beginning- hence the Sun was born from the Virgin, the Sun’s corona is a ‘crown’, the Sun is the “Light itself’, the Sun’s 12 helpers are the Zodiac, the Sun’s light can walk upon water, the Sunrise saves Man each day, etc. Many similarities as you can see exist from nation to nation but some nations begin the solar year with the Virgo instead of Capricorn. In ancient times the ancient calendar and the new year did not start in January, it started when the Sun was in the constellation Virgo (the virgin) and ended in Leo, therefore, the Sun was always "born of a virgin"=Jesus being born of a virgin.

In some areas, the calendar originally began in the constellation of Virgo, and the Sun would therefore be "born of a Virgin." Later when the Sun was personified as "the Son" then you have the "Son of God born of the virgin". It is all astronomical in origin.

Answer for yourself: Are you aware that the Hebrew texts have been altered concerning Isaiah 7:14 and where it says "young woman" it is later changed to say "virgin" when the Hebrew texts were translated by Essenes into Greek in the 3rd century B.C.E.? Of course this was done in Alexandria, Egypt, where we could expect the Hellenized Jews of Egypt to incorporate a synthesis of the solar aspects of the Egyptian religion with Judaism as that is exactly what we find. Thus the "Sun is born in the Virgin" and the "personified Son of the Sun" is made to do the same as we find with Jesus in the solar "Jesus Story" in the New Testament.

Since the new year and calendar of the Ancients began in Virgo and ended in Leo then this explains why the Sphinx has the head of a Virgin and the Body of a Lion. When the Sun of God was re-born to begin anew its cycle through the Heavens it was in the Constellation of Virgo, so it was said that it was "Born of a Virgin". The Sun is the "Eye of God" or "Eye of Horus". Ra was the Sun God in Egypt. His full name was Amen Ra. That is why we say "A-men" after our prayers. The Egyptians knew this and all of the Egyptian beliefs and customs are built into our society secretly and few are aware of this today. In fact the backbone of Judeo-Christianity is thoroughly Egyptian and hardly anyone knows of it today.

Throughout much of its history, the Christian Church has taught that Jesus was conceived by the Virgin Mary by the action of the Holy Spirit, without sexual intercourse. This doctrine is usually called the virgin birth, although the term virgin conception would seem to be more accurate. This has long been one of the church’s foundational beliefs, along with the indisputable truth of the Bible, the atonement, resurrection, and the second coming of Jesus. Now if we logically look at the allegories and origins of Virgin Births in all myths and religions we discover that the prototypes of Mary are the sister-wives of Sun-gods. Notice in this early depiction of Mary and Jesus not only the solar halos or nimbus but the symbols for the twelve constellations that surround her. It is in this context that we must understand much of Christian theology and symbolism as well as certain virgin goddesses such as the Egyptian Isis, and the Greek Artemis whom are both sisters of the Sun gods, Osiris and Apollo respectively.

The Virgin Mary is the Constellation of Virgo and the story of virgin births is the timeless allegory of Virgo giving birth to the Sun on the darkest night of the year, the 24th of December. If we follow the path of the Sun we discover that towards the end of August the radiant Sun enters the celestial Virgo and places the seed of the new Sun in her to germinate the embryo of the new Sun, Horus, Apollo or Christ.

This phenomenon, which takes place every year in August, gave rise to Christmas, a festival which still exists, and in which it is supposed that the Mother of Christ, disregarding her earthly life, is associated with the glory of her son, and is placed by his side in the heavens. We know that the sign of the celestial virgin rose over the horizon at the moment assigned to the birth of Jesus the Christ. Christians may be reluctant to recognize Virgo as the Blessed Virgin. Yet Virgo’s stars descend after harvest below the horizon, and the Sun of the winter rises from the same point.

Answer for yourself: What is the importance of the fact that as the stars of Virgo descend below the horizon that the Sun of the winter rises from the same point? It appears that the Sun rises in Virgo as is the case if superimposed and the Ancients understood this as the Virgin holding the baby Sun in her arms. From this we find the multiple examples from antiquity of the Virgin goddess holding the Sun from the times of Isis and Horus which we later find borrowed by Christianity for their Mary and Jesus. In Numbers 24:17, it is declared "There shall come a star out of Jacob," etc. This is a text often quoted by Christian writers as having a prophetic reference to the Christian Messiah. But the same text declares further, "It shall destroy the children of Seth," a prediction which no rational interpretation can make apply to Jesus Christ. And then we find this star of Jacob or Judah (the same) represented on astronomical maps as a prominent star in the constellation Virgo (the Virgin), fancifully termed by the Hebrew Ephraim. This star is known in the Syrian, Arabian and Persian Systems of astronomy as Messaeil (suggestive of Messiah), and was considered the ruling genius of the constellation. The "star of Jacob," then, was simply a figure borrowed from the ancient pagan systems of astronomy, in which they fancifully represent a virgin rising with an infant Messiah (Messaeil) in her arms. Messaeil is, when analyzed, Messaeh­el (Messiah­God), and is found in the constellation Virgo, which commences rising at midnight, on the 25th of December, with this "star in the east" in her arms ­­ the star which piloted "the wise men." The whole thing, then, is evidently an astronomical legend.

The story of Christ's birth in the book of Luke is lifted from Astrology and Astronomy as well. The three wise men are the stars of Orion's belt, which rise in the east at sunset on the Winter solstice. These three stars in Orion's belt point to the spot on the horizon where Sirius, the brightest star of all the "host of heaven" rises two hours later, and where the reborn Sun rises the following morning. Couple with this is the fact the the Virgin Virgo rises at midnight, bringing forth the reborn Sun. As if that is not enough we find in the sky at the same time the animals for the stable, Aries (ram/lamb) and Taurus (bull) in the proximity of Orion. Thus the grouping of the characters in the "Jesus Story" associated with the stable and his birth.

The story of the Virgin Mother Isis, giving birth to the Sun-god, Horus, which Christianity has so faithfully preserved, is a reminder of the inscription concerning Mary’s Egyptian prototype, Isis, which appeared on the Temple of Sais: The inscription reads "The fruit which I have brought forth is the Sun". Horus, son of Osiris, the Sun-god, was conceived even though Osiris' phallus had been lost following his brother Set cutting up his body. Set is the the dark, twin aspect of Osiris and serves as the adversary. From Set we get the later evolution of the concept of "Satan". Unknown to most Christians is the fact that the cult of Isis became enormously popular in the Roman Empire. Romans called her the "eternal savior of the race of men". The transfer of part of the Isis myth undoubtedly took place in the 1st century A.D. "The image of Isis suckling her child Horus under the sacred tree of Hathor at Denderah," became the archetypal model for images of the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus" for over 2000 years and continues today unknown by most.

All of the research gathered on the very difficult subject of Christianity leads one to believe that the foundation of this religion had its origin in ancient Africa 40,000 years ago or longer. These ancient people embraced the same mythological story of a savior being crucified, as is the case of Joshua ben-Pendara, whose real name is "Pa-neter-Ra". This name was later changed by the Greeks to Jesus Christ. My research also concludes that the concept of Christianity is very similar, if not copied from the Egyptian Mystery System which was based on Astronomy and the teaching of it which comprise both the "Outer" and "Inner mysteries". According to the late A. Powell Davies,

• "Originally, it was the earth itself that was the goddess, virginal again with every spring. Her son was the fruit of the earth, born only to die, and in dying, to be implanted once more in the earth, as the seed that would renew the cycle. This was the "Vegetation myth" from which the 'Savior-God' and the 'Mater Dolorosa' was drawn, soon to be elaborated. But before we have the same story told in Mother Nature we find it taught in the Heavens in the form of a Solar myth. One should quickly see the connection between the Sun and Nature since Nature responds to the Sun and is totally dependent upon it.
• The cycle of seasons on earth was viewed to be parallel with the coordinate cycle of the heavens. The concept of the Virgin goddess grew out of the constellation Virgo. Virgo rose in the eastern sky just when Sirius, the star from the east, was signaling the new birth of the Sun. The passage of the horizon and its plane (line) through Virgo midsection along with the rising of the Sun through Virgo was understood as the impregnation and conception of the Virgin from the Sun. The fruit of her womb was to be the Son of God. It began with Horus and many Horus prototypes existed down through history and culminated with the last one familiar to all today; Jesus. The earth myth was thus blended with the sky myth and both with the memory of ancient heros, real or legendary, and so came the "Saga of the Redeemer".
• The cave, later to be associated with the birth of Jesus, was earlier the birthplace of Horus, who, when he was grown, would become Osiris, who must die for the salvation of his people. Isis was the Mater Dolorosa."

We have seen that Virgo was known as the "house of bread" and by now we have seen in our study of the Sun passing through Pisces that this constellation represented multiple fish. Now we come to the miracle recorded as from Jesus where he fed the five thousand with five loaves and two fish.

Answer for yourself: How many "houses" of the Zodiac separate Virgo and Pisces? Are you aware that in the Zodiac wheel that Virgo and Pisces are separated by five houses or 5 constellations? Is this a coincidence? Are you aware that there are "two" fish in the constellation Pisces? Is this coincidence? Is this the origin of the story of the "5 loaves and 2 fishes" we find in the New Testament?

But we are not through. Let us keep reading our New Testament to the next event recorded in the "Jesus Story". Following the text we find that next Jesus walks on water (Matt. 14:22-33).

Matt 14:22-33 22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. 23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. 24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. 27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. 28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. 31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? 32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. 33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. (KJV)

 It always bothered me why Jesus would "walk on water" when he supposedly stressed in the Gospel of John that he has not come to seek his own glory but reveal the glory of his Father God but yet we find him doing some cheap circus trick as walking on water which bring only him glory and not the Creator.

John 7:18 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. (KJV)

John 8:50 50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. (KJV)

This is a huge paradox that is troubling until you come to find out the the "Jesus Story" is astronomical and neve occurred on earth. That is why the early Gnostic "Chrestian", later called "Christians" never taught a fleshly historical Jesus Christ because they knew what we don't; the "Jesus Story" was a story derived from the Heavens and not a literal historical account of some first century "messiah want to be".

But this makes perfect sense when you realize that the account of "Jesus walking on water" is but an allegory of the Sun setting on the water and casting its reflection upon the surface of the water in such a way as if the Sun was walking upon the water. Again this is but an allegory for the path of the Sun in the Heavens as it crossed the Milky Way known as the Nile in Heaven or the Silver River in Heaven with its band of millions of stars. The Milky Way is the "River of Stars" in Heaven. Thus we find that in the the "Jesus Story" that Jesus is made to walk now on the water in the Sky, the Milky Way. But this makes perfect sense when you realize that this is but an allegory of the Sun setting on the water and casting its reflection upon the surface of the water in such a way as if the Sun was walking upon the water.

Next we come to the teaching of the "things that defile" in Matthew 15:1-19. We are now concerned with the "tradition of the elders". Jesus explains his reason for not washing before eating.

Matt 15:1-2 1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Did you notice that while the Sun is in Virgo we have another "bread" reference? Why did the writes of the New Testament not accuse them of not washing their hands after eating something other than bread? To keep the Astronomical symbolism intact it has to be "bread" to keep our focus upon Virgo.

We find in allegorical form again the constant conflict between light and darkness told through the personification of attacks by the scribes and Pharisees upon Jesus. Yes, I said "personified attacks". These events never happened in historical Judaism and never happened to a historical Jesus. This is pure fiction and myth taken again from the stars. Before you think I have lost my mind know for certain that my studies in the Jewish Roots of Christianity has been very through and I was amazed about ten years ago to find that the 3 major attacks upon Jesus in the New Testament (healing on the Sabbath, plucking and eating grain on the Sabbath, and eating with unwashed hands) were not against any law or ordnance in Judaism. Granted after Rabbi Akiba in around 110 A.D. with the destruction of the Temple it will be imposed by oral law that the washing of hands before eating is now commanded of all people but at the time of the supposed existence of Jesus of Nazareth long prior to 110 A.D. we do not find this commandment binding on anyone except the High Priest. I invite all who read this paper to check these things out for themselves as I had to do. You will find exactly what I said and you can count on me to give you only the facts that are derived from hard study. Again the New Testament has misled us, the reader, to not only think that Judaism is a harsh and unloving religion (which it is not) but at the same time has totally misrepresented the Astronomical story of the opposition to the Sun in its path through the Heavens by the darkness of night. These events, the attacks upon Jesus as the "personified Sun" are but allegories of the struggles of the Sun following crossing the Summer solstice and the advance upon it of the powers of darkness. That explains why so many of the stores in the New Testament are utterly historically inaccurate to the facts of the Jewish faith.

Matt 15:14 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Should we not be surprised to find a reference to blindness or "darkness" in these same verses since the darkness is slowly overpowering the Sun in its descent in the Sky on its way to its death at the Winter solstice following the Summer Solstice?

With the harvesting complete, the water has completed its life giving miracle. We found the reference to the water when the personified Sun in the form of Jesus walked on the water and then the bread of course from Virgo, the symbol of bread.

But we are not through yet. Next we come to Jesus feeding the four thousand with seven loaves and a few fish.

Matt 15:32-39 32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. 33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? 34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. 35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. 36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. 37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. 38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. 39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: Why seven loaves instead of five? If Jesus just fed 5000 with 5 loaves and two fish then why does he need more loaves this time to feed less people? Are we to believe they were gluttons? No we have more Astronomical symbolism here that goes undetected except by the very few.

In the zodiac wheel there are five houses between Virgo and Pisces, and two more when we count Virgo and Pisces. Including again the symbolism for the houses of the Zodiac and remembering each constellation was considered a "house" and since we are again concerned with "bread" (Virgo) and "fish" (Pisces) then these extra two houses total 7 and not 5. Thus the miracle the seven loaves for fewer people.

There are signs and tip offs in the New Testament that would lead the reader to think that the "Jesus Story" never took place on earth but rather in Heaven but not being knowledgable about Astronomy or Astrology we pass right by them neve giving them a second thought. A perfect example is Matt. 16:1.

Matt 16:1 1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. (KJV)

One might expect a demonstration of something on earth rather a sign from Heaven but that is not what we find. Jesus is made to refer to the “Sign of Jonah” parable. We all remember the story. Of course we find a storm and the Sky is threatening. Darkness is in power and the light is waning fast as the Sun is falling from the Heavens to its death at the Winter solstice where it will remain dead for 3 days as we find symbolized again in the Jonah. Of course by now you have seen where these 3 days come from. At both the Summer and Winter solstice the Sun appears to have quit moving and was thought dead by the Ancients for 3 days until it was "born" anew. Jesus is made to say that there will be no sign except the sign of Jonah (Matt. 16:4).

Matt 16:4 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. (KJV)

The sign won't appear until the Sun stays at its lowest time of descent for three days as Jonah was three days in the fish’s belly.

Answer for yourself: And when is this? It is the Winter solstice where the darkness overpowers the Sun and the Sun appears dead for 3 days in the Heavens.

Matt 16:21 21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. (KJV)

Answer for yourself: So what have we seen? Let lets let a famous scholar summarize all of this for us if we can. Charles Francois Dupuis, in his Origin of Worship, one of the most elaborate and remarkable works on mythology ever penned, shows that nearly all the religions of the world, including Christianity, were derived largely from solar worship. All the solar deities, he says, have a common history. This history, summarized, is substantially as follows: "The god is born about December 25th, without sexual intercourse (Horus), for the Sun, entering the winter solstice, emerges in the sign of Virgo, the heavenly Virgin. His mother remains ever-virgin, since the rays of the Sun, passing through the zodiacal sign, leave it intact. His infancy is filled with dangers, because the new-born Sun is feeble in the midst of the winter's fogs and mists, which threaten to devour him; his life is one of toil and peril, culminating at the spring equinox in a final struggle with the powers of darkness. At that period the day and night are equal, and both fight for the mastery. Though the night veil the Sun and he seems dead; though he has descended out of sight, below the earth, yet he rises again triumphant, and he rises in the sign of the Lamb, and is thus the Lamb of God, carrying away the darkness and death of the winter months. Henceforth he triumphs, growing ever stronger and more brilliant. He ascends into the zenith, and there he glows, on the right hand of God, himself God, the very substance of the Father, the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, upholding all things by his lifegiving power."

Dr G. W. Brown, author of Researches in Oriental History, says: "Strange as it may seem whilst Mithras and Osiris, Monysos and Bacchus, Apollo and Serapis, with many others [including Christ] in name, all masculine Sun gods, and all interblended, a knowledge of one is generally a knowledge of the whole, wherever located or worshiped." This is because Ancients man saw the same things in the heavens and created legends and myths of observations of Heavens. The names of the participants changed over time but the basic story remained intact from nation to nation. And along comes Jesus in the age of Pisces as the new personified Sun for the New Age of Pisces and this continues today for we are yet in the age of Pisces till around 2012 and then who knows?

In particular to this article however we saw that in the ancient zodiacs of Egypt as well as other nations like India, there is seen this virgin nursing a male child, with Sun rays around his head…which is emblematical of the infant Sun at the winter solstice, and of his being then in the sign of the Virgo. As Albert the Great acknowledged:

• The virgin-birth motif is astrotheological, referring to the hour of midnight, December 25th, when the constellation of Virgo rises on the horizon.
• The Assumption of the Virgin, celebrated in Catholicism on August 15th, represents the summer sun's brightness blotting out Virgo.
• Mary's Nativity, celebrated on September 8th, occurs when the constellation is visible again. Such is what these "Christian" motifs and holidays represent, as has obviously been known by the more erudite of the Catholic clergy. Hence, the virgin who will conceive and bring forth is Virgo, and her son is the Sun.

"He is always born at the winter solstice, after the shortest day in the year, at the midnight of the 24th December when the sign Virgo is rising above the horizon; born as this Sign is rising, he is born always of a virgin, and she remains a virgin after she has given birth to her Sun-child as the celestial Virgo remains unchanged and unsullied when the Sun comes forth from her in the Heavens. Weak, feeble as an infant is he, born when the days are shortest and the nights are longest..." (Annie Besant, Esoteric Christianity, p. 157).

At the time of the birth of Christ, Sirius, the Star in the East, was on the meridian line. The constellation Orion, called "The Three Kings" by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation Virgo, the Virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation. It is interesting also to note that the brightest and largest star in the constellation Virgo is called Spica; it is to be found in the "ear of corn" (sign of fertility) which the Virgin holds. Bethlehem means the "house of bread," and there is therefore an obvious connection between these two words. This constellation is also composed of three stars in the shape of a cup. This is the true Holy Grail, that which contains the life blood, the repository of the sacred and the holy, and that which conceals divinity. These are astronomical facts. The interpretation of the symbolism attached from ancient days to these constellations is as old as religion itself. Whence came the signs, and how the meanings and symbols associated with them came into being, is lost in the night of time. They have existed in men's minds and thoughts and writings for thousands of years, and are our joint heritage today. The ancient zodiac of Denderah (antedating Christianity by several thousand years) is ample proof of this. In the sun's journey around the zodiac, this "Man of the Heavens" eventually arrives at Pisces; this sign is exactly opposite the sign Virgo, and is the sign of all world Saviors. We have already seen that the age of Christianity is the Piscean Age, and Christ came to the Holy Land when our Sun transited into that sign. Therefore that which was started and had its being in Virgo (the birth of the Christ Child-the birth of the Sun) is consummated in Pisces when that Christ Child (as the Mature Sun), having attained maturity (at the Summer solstice which brings the harvest), comes forth as the world Savior.

John 8:12 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (KJV)

In addition, the Sun god was born of a virgin not just once, but daily, monthly and annually for thousands of years. The daily exchange between the Sun and Dawn included the Dawn driving her "bright flocks," or morning clouds, into the "blue pastures of heaven." She is followed by the "lord of the day," born from the night's "toiling womb." This daily process of the Sun was repeated, amid great drama, as the Sun was born, lived out the day and again passed away. During this daily struggle, it was said that the Sun "strangled the serpents of night" before going forth "like a bridegroom out of his chamber." The Sun god is also frequently depicted as battling with "clouds and storms," the clouds at times overcoming his light, leading to him being called the "hidden Sun" (Ammon, Amon or Amen). Rather interesting that we say "amen" after our prayers.

In Antiquities Unveiled, J.M. Roberts, Esq., reiterates that Christ drama represents " . . . the passage of the Sun, in its annual course through the constellations of the Zodiac; having his birth in the sign of the Goat, the Augean stable of the Greeks; his baptism in Aquarius, the John the Baptist in the heavens; his triumph when he becomes the Lamb of God in Aries; his greatest exaltation on St. John's, the beloved disciple's day, on the 21st of June, in the Sign of the Twins, the emblem of double power; his tribulation in the Garden of Gethsemane, in the sign of the rural Virgo; his betrayal in the sign of Scorpio, the malignant emblem of his approaching death in the stormy and adverse sign, Sagittarius, and his resurrection or renewed birth on the twenty-fifth of December in the same sign of the celestial Goat . . ."

In 1829 Rev. Taylor adeptly made the case that the entire Gospel story was already in existence long before the beginning of the Common Era and was probably composed by the monks at Alexandria called "Therapeuts" in Greek and "Essenes" in Egyptian, both names meaning "healers." This theory has stemmed in part from the statement of early church father Eusebius, who, in a rare moment of seeming honesty, "admitted . . . that the canonical Christian gospels and epistles were the ancient writings of the Essenes or Therapeutae reproduced in the name of Jesus." WOW!

Taylor also opines that "the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought the whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in Christianity." In addition, Wheless mentions that one can find much of the fable of "Jesus Christ" in the Book of Enoch, which predated the supposed advent of the Jewish master by hundreds of years. According to G. Massey, it was the "pagan" Gnostics - who included members of the Essene/Therapeut and Nazarene brotherhoods, among others - who actually carried to Rome the esoteric (gnostic) texts containing the Mythos, upon which the numerous gospels, including the canonical four, were based. Wheless says, "Obviously, the Gospels and other New Testament booklets, written in Greek and quoting 300 times the Greek Septuagint, and several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus, and Cleanthes, were written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek-speaking ex-Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews." Mead averred, "We thus conclude that the autographs of our four Gospels were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian."

As Walker in her Woman's Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets said, "Scholars' efforts to eliminate paganism from the Gospels in order to find a historical Jesus have proved as hopeless as searching for a core in an onion." The "gospel" story of Jesus is not a factual portrayal of a historical "master" who walked the earth 2,000 years ago. It is a myth built upon other myths and godmen, who in turn were personifications of the ubiquitous sungod mythos. And let it not be forgotten as I am showing you and will continue to do so that all of these personifications of the Sun in the form of "Jesus" are not historical truths.

Well I bet you are getting the picture by now. Let us continue tracing the Sun and its path through the Zodiac and finding the parallels in the "Jesus Story" as found in the New Testament. The Sun moves now from Virgo to Libra. We should expect that the Gospels and the stories of Jesus will follow the path of the Sun in the Zodiac and we won't be disappointed.

Let us continue with the next article in this series.

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