The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity. (See Moor's Hindu Pantheon. Secret knowledge determines who is highest on the hierarchy of power, and secret names are employed to keep the power of names from being misused. "The Egyptian priests in many of their ceremonies wore the skins of lions, which were symbols of the solar orb, owing to the fact that the sun is exalted, dignified, and most fortunately placed in the constellation of Leo, which he rules and which was at one time the keystone of the celestial arch. This feastThe following description of this phenomenon appears in a letter written by Jeremiah Shakerley in Lancashire, March 4th, 1648:--"On Monday the 28th of February last, there arose with the Sun two Parelii, on either side one; their distance from him was by estimation, about ten degrees; they continued still of the same distance from the Zenith, or height above the Horizon, that the Sun did; and from the parts averse to the Sun, there seemed to issue out certain bright rays, not unlike those which the Sun sendeth from behind a cloud, but brighter. "This Virgin mother, giving birth to the Sun God which Christianity has so faithfully preserved, is a reminder of the inscription concerning her Egyptian prototype, Isis, which appeared on the Temple of Sais: "Among certain of the Arabian and Persian astronomers the three stars forming the sword belt of Orion were called the Magi who came to pay homage to the young Sun God.
)At the vernal equinox, the sun had grown to be a beautiful youth. In every instance these represented the threefold form of one Supreme Intelligence. The Sages of antiquity did not have far to go to find not only apt and felicitous, but absolutely inerrant types, symbols and mimeographs of the cosmic laws and principles they had in mind to picture forth. It is not an encyclopaedic style compendium of research on the celebration of the sun—that would be a much bigger book, would serve little real purpose in terms of practical understanding, and would also be very boring! During this period it circled the twelve signs of the zodiac in a magnificent triumphal march. The tenet of a Triune Divinity is not peculiar to Christian or Mosaic theology, but forms a conspicuous part of the dogma of the greatest religions of both ancient and modern times. These creatures resemble miniature suns, being a little larger than a dinner plate in size, although some of the more powerful are considerably larger. "Certain Rosicrucian scholars have given special appellations to these three phases of the sun: the spiritual sun they called In the majority of cases, the religions of antiquity agree that the material visible sun was a reflector rather than a source of power. The sun, he says, passes into Virgo on the thirteenth day before the kalends of September. The treatise has been verified by the great scholar of our time, Imaam Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen Al-Albaanee. In early church art the colors of robes and ornaments also revealed whether a saint had been martyred, as well as the character of the work that he had done to deserve canonization.In addition to the colors of the spectrum there are a vast number of vibratory color waves, some too low and others too high to be registered by the human optical apparatus. Regeneration actually means the unfoldment of the omnipresent Divinity in man, that this Divinity may shine forth as a sun and illumine all with whom it comes in contact.Primitive conceptions concerning the warfare between the principles of Good and Evil were often based upon the alternations of day and night. II. Samson, the Hebrew hero, as hisThe sun rising over the back of the lion or, astrologically, in the back of the lion, has always been considered symbolic of power and rulership. As the sun is the source of all light and warmth, so should the Worshipful Master enliven and warm the brethren to their work. These two triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews "the Star of David," "the Signet of Solomon," and are more commonly known today as "the Star of Zion." 215 0 obj
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Stonehenge and Ancient Astronomy Stonehenge did not exist in isolation, but within a landscape filled with people.This cultural landscape developed over time, so that the “prehistoric monuments” we see today were built over a timespan of more than 2000 years, from the fourth millennium BC through to Heaven is therefore blue, earth yellow, and hell--or the underworld--red. Its processes did nor actually create gold but rather made the ever-present seed of gold grow and flourish. 234 0 obj
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The ancients asserted that life originated from the sun, and that everything when bathed in the light of the solar orb was capable of absorbing the solar life elements and later radiating them as flora and fauna. Objections to the idea are based upon the argument that creatures with human organisms could nor possibly exist in the environments of Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. These wings are corona-like fans of light, by means of which the celestial creatures propel themselves through the subtle essences of the superphysical worlds.True mystics are unanimous in their denial of the theory that the angels and archangels are human in form, as so often pictured. According to esoteric philosophy, blue is the true and sacred color of the sun. endstream
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Masons will find a connection between these hands and the well-known The theory so long held of three primary and four secondary colors is purely exoteric, for since the earliest periods it has been known that there are seven, and not three, primary colors, the human eye being capable of estimating only three of them. (See William Lilly. Among the Egyptians, Osiris, Ra, Anubis, Hermes, and even the mysterious Ammon himself had points of resemblance with the solar disc.
The wings, the serpents, and the solar orb are the insignia of Ammon, Ra, and Osiris.name implies, is also a solar deity.