Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [161]
It is expressed in terms of creative phenomena; its hero is not Jesus but the Sun of the Universe, its heroine is the Moon; and all its other characters are Planets, Stars and Constellations; while its stage-setting comprises the Sky, the Earth, the Rivers and the Seas
In fact, Revelation records the mythos of the precession of the equinoxes, or the "Great Year," and was apparently originally written to usher in the Age of Aries, which began around 4,400 years ago. As Churchward says:
The drama appears as tremendous in the Book of Revelation, because the period ending is on the scale of one Great Year. It is not the ending of the world, but of a great year of the world.`
Churchward continues:
The book is and always has been inexplicable, because it was based upon the symbolism of the Egyptian Astronomical Mythology without the gnosis, or "meaning which hath wisdom" that is absolutely necessary for an explanation of its subjectmatter; and because the debris of the ancient wisdom has been turned to account as data for pre-Christian prophecy that was supposed to have its fulfillment in Christian history.'°
Sacred Numerology/Gematria
The Book of Revelation is in fact an encapsulation of the ancient astrological mythos and religion, a part of which is sacred numerology. Indeed, several sacred numbers repeatedly make their appearance in Revelation, such as three, seven, 12, 24, etc. The "seven stars" or "spirits" are the seven "planets" that make up the days of the week and the Seven Sisters, which were variously the pole-stars or the Pleiades. These Seven Sisters corresponded to the Seven Hathors of the Egyptians, who were the "'seven beings who make decrees,' whom the dead would meet on their journey through the seven spheres of the afterlife."" The Seven Hathors were also considered the seven gates, as mentioned in Revelation, representing both the night hours and the "seven months of summer." The seven "torches of fire" or seven-branch lampstand symbolizes the sun in the middle, with the moon and five inner planets as satellites, corresponding to the days of the week. Concerning Jesus as the lamb with the seven horns and eyes, Wells says:
Revelation's figuring the heavenly Jesus as a lamb with seven horns and seven eyes "which are the spirits of God sent forth into all the earth" (5:6) is a manifold reworking of old traditions. Horns are a sign of power (Deuteronomy 33:17) and in Daniel designated kingly power. The seven eyes which inform the lamb of is happening all over the earth seem to be residues from ancient astrological lore . . . according to which God's eyes are the sun, the moon, and the five planets ...12
The Great City in Revelation is the city of the Gods, located in the heavens, with the 12 gates of the zodiac. The "tree of life" in the city that bears "twelve manner of fruit" is also the zodiac.
In addition, the 24 elders in white garments around the throne are the 24 hours of the day "around" the sun. The four angels "standing at the four corners of the earth" are the four cardinal points or angles of 90 degrees each. The 144,000 elect are the 360 degrees of the zodiacal circle multiplied by the four minutes it takes for the sun to move one degree, times a factor of 102.13
The Four "Living Creatures"
Much has been made of the four mysterious creatures or cherubim found in Ezekiel and Revelation:
And round the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes front and behind: And the first animal was like a lion and the second animal was like a calf and the third animal had the face of a man and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle.
As noted concerning the same cherubim in Ezekiel, these four animals represent the four cardinal points of the zodiac. The throne is the sun, and the multitudinous "eyes front and behind" are the infinite stars. The three pairs of wings of each beast represent the three signs of each of the four zodiacal quadrants. These "living creatures" were also found in Egypt. As Walker says, "Spirits of the four