Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [99]
. . . 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 ...
Regarding the mysterious Garden of Gethsemane, Wells says, "They went to a place which is called Gethsemane'. Nothing is known of such a place."38 In fact, the Garden exists in the sky.
In addition, Jesus in the "upper room" symbolizes the sun in the "upper signs," as the two equinoxes divide the solar orbit into two halves, also represented by the two genealogies of Jesus in the gospels.39
Hazelrigg gives the astrological meaning of the annunciation of the divine one's birth:
Directing our gaze to the right, we see rising on the eastern angle of the planisphere the constellation of the Virgin, the sixth sign of the Zodiac, or sixth month, reckoning from March (Aries). "And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God ... to a virgin espoused by a man whose named was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary."-Luke i. 26, 27.40
He further explains the Passion as it appears in the mythos:
In due order, the next quarter introduces the Passion-a term appositely chosen and applied-prefaced under Aries, the first sign of the fiery triplicity, which is the Vale of Gehenna. . . . Thence comes Calvary, conformably with the crossification of the Sun of Nature at the gate of Libra, with the zodiacal Virgin recumbent next to this point of supreme sacrifice.41
The story of the sun is a daily, monthly, annual and precessional drama that takes place cyclically and over thousands of years. In order to change the mythos into the life of a man-in other words, to personify and historicize it-it was necessary to make the tale linear, such that there are discrepancies between the stories of the sun and that of the "historical" Jesus. For example, while the sun "dies" and is "reborn" or "resurrected" daily, monthly, annually and precessionally, as a "person" Jesus can only undergo such experiences once. In the early Christian period, when the story was still being formulated, yet another debate raged as to how long after beginning his ministry Christ was supposed to suffer his passion, with a common portrayal that it occurred in the 12th month after his baptism," i.e., at the winter solstice, following his baptism in Aquarius, as acknowledged by Irenaeus, who wrote against the "heretics": "[T]hey affirm that He suffered in the twelfth month, so that He continued to preach for one year after His baptism." Irenaeus then insists that Christ "did not suffer in the twelfth month after his baptism, but was more than fifty years old when he died." Irenaeus's statements reveal not only Jesus's solar nature but also that by his time (c. 140-c. 200) the gospel story was not "set in stone," as it would have been, had it happened in history. In fact, some of the writings of the early Christian fathers demonstrate that they are discussing a number of different individuals, which is to be expected, since the Christ character is a composite of many.
These various debates reflect the complexity of the mythos, as further illustrated by Massey:
When it was discovered that the moon was a mirror to the solar light, the sun-god as Osiris was reborn monthly in or of the moon! Thus, the resurrection in three days became that of the luni-solar god. . . . The Christ who rose again in three days for the fulfillment of scripture must be the Christ according to that scripture