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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 86

A Strange Coincidence

page 43

A Strange Coincidence.

The sun (to man) the light of the solar system. Jesus (to man) the light of the Christian era.
The sun created to give light to those that, without him would be in darkness. Jesus came to give light to those that, without him, would be in darkness.
The four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—give the career of the sun's effect upon the earth during the solar year. The four Evangelists — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—give the history of Jesus upon the earth during his life among men.
The solar year was divided into 12 parts or months, and the heavens were divided into 12 zodical constellations, and these 12 constellations were supposed by the ancients to rule over these months; and the sun to be the great ruling light moving among them. Jesus had twelve Apostles, and he was the great ruling light moving among them.
A further division of time may be seen m the twenty-four hours of the day and night. Twenty-four elders before the throne
The sun appears to do miracles; he multiplies the few grains of wheat that are sown in the ground a hundred-fold, and so the many are fed from the few. Jesus does miracles with the few loaves; he multiplies them, and so the many are fed from the few.
We sow die vine upon the hill-side. The sun draws the water from the deep, it is wafted over by the wind in vaporous clouds, it condenses and falls in showers upon that seed; and then the sunbeam shining upon it causes the seedlings to germinate, burst forth, blossom, and fruit, and there we have the grape, or wine in the cluster. The sun worked this wonderful change, it turned the water into wine. Jesus lakes the pitchers of water and they become wine; Jesus turns the water into wine.
These similes do not end here; we could go on showing parallels through all the wonderful workings of the solar system and religious teaching (more of this anon); but it will suffice for the present to finish with an extract from the writings of Dupuis and others page 44 upon the great astronomical solar scheme, as founded by the ancients :—

"At mid-winter, or that period which now corresponds to December in the Northern Hemisphere, the constellations were supposed to correspond to a goat or ram, surrounded on all sides by stars, which the Oriental tendency to impersonate ideas, and image forth all things into natural forms, called the stable or manger of the Goat (Capricornus). About this constellation also were several minor groups, the most noted of which were termed the Virgin, to signify her special attribute of fruitfulness."

"In summer the constellation Virgo appears at the marriage feast of the year, when the sun turns the weak water of earth into wine, when the earth is in the plentitude of her power, and unites all seasons in the marriage anthem of gladness. Her reappearance in mid-winter in the stable of the goat occasioned her to bo called the Virgin, about to 'bring forth,' and hence the winter Virgo represents the mother of the young newly-born sun, she who 'brings forth' in the stable of Capricornus."

"In March, when the genial season of spring is heralded in by the appearance of the young lambs of the field, the constellation Aries (the ram) is in the ascendant. At this point the sun crosses the Equator, ascending from the darkness and concealment of the Southern Hemisphere into the triumphant North, so full of hope, promise and renovation to the earth groaning under the tyranny of the wintry season. After the sun crosses the vernal equinox the earth is redeemed, the darkness ends, famine, want, suffering and cold lose their sway; hence there is a cross as a sign of this great redemption, the sun crossing at the time the vernal equinox."