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Anderson adds:

The sun in Egyptian is Sire, Osiris, in Sanskrit, Aum, in Chaldean and Ethiopic, On, in other languages, Sol. And whether we call him Sol-aum or On, or altogether Sol-om-on, it matters little, since his temple has never yet been made by hands and is eternal in the heavens. And though Herod's temple has been found and the remains of many others, no one has yet had the audacity to claim Sol-om-on's Temple as a discovery ... 20

Solomon's Temple is, in fact, the tent or tabernacle of the sun mentioned at Psalms 19, the same temple as Jesus's body. The "mounts of Solomon" are the 72 decans or divisions of the zodiac, reflected in the ancient Persian tradition that there were 70 or 72 Soleimans before the advent of Adam/Atum.21 Traditionally it has been thought that the Knights Templar were designated for the "historical" temple of Solomon; however, they were in actuality named for the "templum of the heavens" or "starry vaults."22 As Hazelrigg explains:

The Holy Temple, Solomon's Temple, and the Temple of the Lord are all expressive of the celestial fabric that revolves around us, the altar in which is the constellation of Aries, the eastern sign.23

The temple as a symbol of what is above is reflected in the Letter to the Hebrews (9:24): "For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself. . ."

Jonah

Incredibly, many people have believed the biblical tale of Jonah and the whale to be true. The fact that this belief can be rationalized, particularly since those selfsame believers roundly dismiss the "absurd" stories of other cultures, is an example of conditioning and cultural bias. In reality, the story of Jonah is itself found in other cultures, as Walker elaborates:

Jonah's whale is described in the Bible as a "fish," because writers of that period (and for many centuries afterward) were unaware that whales are mammals. The whale of the original Jonah story was the Babylonian Sea Goddess Derceto, "The Whale of Der," who swallowed and gave rebirth to the god Oannes ... Swallowing by the whale indicates an initiation rite, leading to rebirth. The Finnish hero Ilmarinen was similarly swallowed by a giant fish to be re-born. A variant of the story shows that the fish was really a womb . . . Biblical writers masculinized the image as Jonah, whose name means "Dove." The word ionah or Tone may have descended from yoni, for the dove was a primary symbol of female sexuality.24

Far from being literal, the tale of Jonah is astrological, as "Jonah" in the "belly of the whale" for three days represents the sun in the "womb" of the earth. These three days are the "entombment" of the sun in darkness, nightly but also during the time between a new and old moon, as the "whale" is also the "moon-fish." As Doane says:

There is a Hindoo fable, very much resembling [the Jonah tale], to be found in the Somadeva Bhatta, of a person by the name of Saktideva who was swallowed up by a huge fish, and finally came out unhurt.... In Grecian fable, Hercules is said to have been swallowed by a whale, at a place called Joppa, and to have lain three days in his entrails.... That the story is an allegory, and that it, as well as that of Saktideva, Hercules and the rest, are simply different versions of the same myth, the significance of which is the alternate swallowing up and casting forth of Day, or the Sun, by Night, is now all but universally admitted by scholars. The Day, or the Sun, is swallowed up by Night, to be set free again at dawn . . . The Sun was called Jona . . . Jonah, Hercules and others personify the Sun, and a huge Fish represents the Earth.25

Moreover, the words Jawna, Jon, Jona and Ionn are demonstrably the same as Baal, the Lord, or the "First Principle."26 In addition, the Scandinavians purportedly called the sun "John," and in Persian the sun is "Jawnah." "Thus," says Doane, "we see that the Sun was called Jonah, by different nations of antiquity."27

In the New Testament,